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  • Seungil Lee
    Congratulations to Seungil Lee
    2022-05-13 - Congratulations to Seungil Lee for the successful defense of his dissertation, "Essays on Relations, Properties, and (Quantum) Objects"!  For more information regarding Seungil's research click this link: www.seungillee.com.    
  • Ben Levinstein
    Philosophy Professor Ben Levinstein studying Artificial Intelligence through Mellon Grant
    2022-03-30 - Ben Levinstein is professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Epistemology and Decision Theory. In 2020, Professor Ben Levinstein was awarded a multi-year Mellon grant to study artificial intelligence and how it makes decisions. Professor Levinstein was recently featured in an article from the College of LAS that further discusses the scope and...
  • Hugh Chandler
    Passing of Emeritus Professor Hugh Chandler
    2022-01-06 - Hugh Storer Chandler, a long-time highly regarded associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, died peacefully on January 1, 2022 at Carle Foundation Hospital. He was 91. Professor Chandler earned his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and a Master of Divinity from Bangor Theological Seminary. He then received his PhD in philosophy from Cornell...
  • Flowers
    Congratulations to Nick Louzon
    2021-12-28 - Congratulations to Nick Louzon on being awarded C. E. Caton Award for his essay entitled "A Relatively Compelling Defense of Presentism."
  • Flowers at Greg
    Congratulations to Alexander Sardjev and Rebecca Eng
    2021-12-28 - Congratulations to Alexander Sardjev and Rebecca Eng on being awarded The Lois S. Green Scholarship and The Donald W. Doerscher Award respectively, in recognition of their excellence in undergraduate philosophy studies this year. 
  • Old Book
    Congratulations
    2021-08-20 - Congratulations to Clay Alsup for the successful defense of his dissertation, "Alienation, Agency, and Integrity"!  
  • Schroeder
    Passing of Professor Emeritus Bill Schroeder
    2021-08-12 - William R. (Bill) Schroeder, longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed away peacefully on July 26, 2021, at his home in Urbana, Illinois.  ...
  • Murphy
    Congratulations to philosophy affiliate faculty member Colleen Murphy
    2020-12-18 -   Congratulations to Prof. Colleen Murphy, whose paper in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, "On Principled Compromise: When Does a Process of Transitional Justice Qualify as Just", was named one of the best articles in philosophy in 2020 by Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/...
  • Murphy
    Expert Viewpoints: Professor Colleen Murphy
    2020-11-23 - Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1749294700
  • Fitts
    Welcome to new faculty member Jesse Fitts
    2020-11-04 - Dr. Jesse Fitts received a BA in philosophy (with minors in political science and mathematics) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2007 and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Fitts mainly researches representation in language and mind and has teaching interests in logic (informal and formal), applied ethics, and the...
  • CS
    New philosophy course "Philosophical Foundations of Computer Science" featured in LAS Insider blog.
    2020-09-23 - https://las.illinois.edu/news/blog/las-insider/2020-07-22/students-look-forward-fall-2020-courses  
  • Kohei
    Congratulations to philosophy faculty member Kohei Kishida on funding from the National Science Foundation
    2020-09-23 - The National Science Foundation's Convergence Accelerator Grant has been awarded to the project "QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics", in which Professor Kohei Kishida participates as a subject matter expert.  
  • Varden
    Congratulations to philosophy faculty member Benjamin Levinstein on his Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship
    2020-09-23 - Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Levinstein, who has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the academic year 2020-2021. https://mellon.org/programs/higher-learning/new-directions-fellowships/  
  • Varden
    Congratulations to Philosophy faculty member Helga Varden on her distinguished promotion to full professor
    2020-09-23 - Professor Helga Varden has been promoted to the rank of full professor and awarded the 2020 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for her truly exceptional contributions.  She is among the only eleven recipients of this prestigious award this year.  Our most heartfelt congratulations, Helga!  
  • Alma Mater
    Statements condemning racist violence and police brutality issued by the American Philosophical Association (APA) Board of Officers and the APA Graduate Student Council
    2020-06-22 - https://www.apaonline.org/news/510827/APA-board-and-GSC-issue-statements-condemning-racist-violence-and-police-brutality.htm

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