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...
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...
Illinois Philosophy is proud to announce that four new lecturers - Zachary Biondi, Seungil Lee, Patrick Leland, and Ioan Muntean - have joined the faculty this Fall.
Professor Kevin Scharp is a Professor of Philosophy, with broad research interests in the philosophy of language, meta-ethics, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, theories of truth, the...
This 2007 book is a comprehensive collection of sixteen pivotal papers by Wilfrid Sellars, a prominent figure in twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Gathering his often scattered and elusive works...
This 2020 volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. The authors pursue fundamental...
This 2021 textbook provides a unique approach to reading philosophy. It contains texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about. The texts cover diverse areas of...
This 1993 work provides, for the first time, a unified account of the theory of action presupposed by both British and American criminal law and its underlying morality.
In this 1984 book, Michael Moore describes the legal view of persons as rational and autonomous and defends that view from three challenges suggested by psychiatry: that badness is illness, that the...
This 2020 book details how both morality and law presuppose the accuracy of common sense, a centuries-old psychology that defines people as rational agents who make honorable choices and act for just...
Noël Saenz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. He is interested in a range of issues that have to do with layered view of reality (...
Shelley Weinberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy, who specializes in 17th and 18th century philosophy of mind, epistemology (both natural and religious), and metaphysics—with an emphasis on the...
Jochen Bojanowski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s...