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.
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 2019 book offers a careful and critical presentation of main lines of argument in G.E.M. Anscombe's classic, Intention, at a level appropriate to advanced undergraduates but also capable of...
This 2008 book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws, while...
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 1998 book by a leading Anglo-American legal philosopher provides a thorough examination of the theory of criminal responsibility. Moore is among the first to apply a retributivist theory of...
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...
This 2015 book is an introduction and guide to the systematic collection and analysis of empirical data in academic philosophy. It prompts reconsideration of traditional methods of armchair...
This 2021 collection provides a comprehensive survey of Locke’s work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising almost sixty chapters...
This 2020 book rethinks Kant's views on human nature by making space for sex, love, and gender within his accounts of moral freedom. It is the first to develop a Kantian account of how to be a sexual...