2024-04-03
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The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that four new professors have decided either to join our faculty this fall or visit during the year. These announcements (which are subject to Board approval) come as the department continues to move forward with another senior search. The announcements follow a highly successful recruitment cycle last year, which—according to...
2024-03-08 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that three former PhDs recently accepted tenure-track jobs or other positions as assistant professors. Seungil Lee has accepted a tenure-track position at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea. This news follows former PhD student Addison Ellis' acceptance position as an assistant professor at American University...
2024-02-09 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce Professor Shelley Weinberg has been named acting director of the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory.
2024-02-09 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce Professor Helga Varden’s book, “Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Account” (Oxford University Press, 2020) was awarded the 2023 North American Kant Society’s Senior Scholar Prize. The Senior Scholar Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding article or book dealing with any aspect of Kant’s philosophy. The 2023 prize was given for the best Kant...
2024-02-06 - The Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has acquired a rare first edition of Plato’s works printed in the Greek language.
2023-09-13 - Her project titled "Minding the Gap: Public Philosophy for Incarcerated Youth" will be overseen by HRI director Antoinette Burton and Anda's faculty mentor Shelley Weinberg.
2023-08-21 - The Philosophy Department is happy to announce a banner year in hiring, with 3 exciting new members of our tenure-track faculty. Please join us in welcoming Professors Alison Duncan Kerr, Kevin Scharp, and John Schwenkler to the University of Illinois!
2023-02-01 - The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that on January 16, Agnes Galina Shatalov, Professor Keren Shatalov's daughter, came into the world healthy and happy.
2023-01-16 - Though Dr. King is perhaps best known for his work on civil rights for African Americans, he also studied philosophy and was deeply moved by various philosophical lines of thinking. The Philosophy Department celebrates MLK day, including the ways that Dr. King was able to make philosophical ideas relevant to the public good.
2023-01-11 - Bruce Rosenstock, one of our Affiliated Faculty Members who taught philosophy of religion, recently passed away in his home, surrounded by his family members.
2023-01-05 - The philosophy department is happy to announce that Professors Weinberg and Bojanowski are winners of the 2022 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
2023-01-05 - The John Locke Society will be holding its Annual Conference at the University of Illinois, from June 13-15. Professor Shelley Weinberg, who sits on the Executive Committee, is organizing the event.
2022-11-22 - Robert Vanderbeek has been named winner of this year's Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award, bestowed annually on the department’s best graduate student instructor.
2022-11-03 - Professor Helga Varden's recent book, Sex, Love & Gender: A Kantian Theory (Oxford University Press 2020), was released today in paperback form. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together the many strands of Kant's practical philosophy to provide a Kantian account of how to be a sexual, loving, gendered being in moral and...
2022-10-01 - Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and world renowned moral philosopher, studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.