Nir Ben-Moshe
Associate Professor
The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that recent PhD graduate Britt Currie has accepted an offer to be a lecturer of humanities and social sciences at Hutton Honors College at Indiana...
Faculty working in Moral Psychology
Stephen Finlay
Professor
Heidi M Hurd
Professor
Rob Kar
Professor of Law and Philosophy
Benjamin Michael Miller
Assistant Professor
Michael Moore
Professor
John Schwenkler
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Helga Varden
Professor
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Professor Stephen Finlay, an internationally prominent philosopher and one of the department’s most accomplished PhD graduates, has accepted a senior offer to join the faculty. Having previously...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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