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...
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...
2021-12-28 - Congratulations to Nick Louzon on being awarded C. E. Caton Award for his essay entitled "A Relatively Compelling Defense of Presentism."
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.
2021-08-20 - Congratulations to Clay Alsup for the successful defense of his dissertation, "Alienation, Agency, and Integrity"!
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. ...
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/...
2020-11-23 - Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1749294700
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...
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.
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/
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!
2020-05-28 - The annual Caton Prize for best graduate student essay has been awarded to Seungil Lee for his essay "The Passage of Time." We have also recently learned that Seungil has been awarded the Graduate College's Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Please join me in congratulating Seungil for both of these achievements.