2024-07-12 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that we’ve added two new online courses on artificial intelligence in the fall semester: PHIL 440: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and PHIL 442: The AI Revolution. Both courses meet in the second half of the fall semester (October 21-December 11...
2024-05-24 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that professor Helga Varden has been elected as the Central Division Representative to the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. Varden will serve a three-year term from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2027.We’re also very pleased...- 2024-05-10 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce more recipients of this year’s annual awards. This follows our previous announcement of annual award...
2024-05-03 - Max Fan, a junior Philosophy + CS major, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which will provide three years of financial support for his graduate studies. Fan will graduate this May and begin his PhD at Cornell University in the fall. While at...
2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Andrew Smith is the winner of this year's Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award. This award is bestowed annually on the department’s best graduate student instructor. Decisions are based on student evaluations, faculty...- 2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the winners of our annual awards. This year’s awards honor our faculty and graduate students for their teaching excellence and service to the department. Please join...
2024-05-03 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Ashli Anda has accepted an offer as a lecturer in the philosophy department at California Lutheran University. She will be teaching a class called Oppression and Liberation and will also teach Latin American philosophy. It’s been a goal of Anda...
2024-04-16 - The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Sylvia E, a junior majoring in philosophy and brain and cognitive science, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for her potential to contribute to the advancement of research in the natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering....
2024-04-12 - An annual study of recent alumni reports 96% of philosophy and history majors (combined) who graduated during the most recent 2022-2023 period secured their first destination within six months of commencement. Looking more closely into this data 99% of philosophy majors secured a first destination...
2024-04-03 - 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...
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...
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...
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.