Mizzou Department of Philosophy

12/15/2025

Happy Hanukkah!

07/18/2025

04/27/2025

Here is an article on our very own Dr. Troy Hall!

Journaling allows a writer to take snippets of their life and create an art piece of words and colors. You are able to create a collection of thoughts from thin air while releasing intense emotions that may have otherwise been kept in. There is a common misconception that journaling has to be an art...

04/10/2025

Professor Claire Horisk will be talking about her book, Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor (Oxford University Press, 2024), on a panel at the Faculty Book Authors Celebration on May 1.

Faculty Book Authors Celebration  Thursday, May 1, 2025 4-6 p.m.  Reynolds Alumni Center, Bistro, Dining Room and Donrey All faculty are invited to help us recognize faculty who have published new books in 2024. Event Schedule 2024 Faculty Books Piyush Baindara Evolution of Antimicrob...

02/19/2025

Check out our phenomenal faculty's latest publications! For more information, head to the News section of our department webpage.

12/09/2024

We are currently accepting applications to our five-year PhD program! Winning applicants will receive a five-year teaching assistantship (currently at $19,000/per academic year), including free tuition and University health care. To be considered for a fellowship, the application deadline is January 30, 2025; to be considered for a teaching assistantship the application deadline is February 10, 2025.

The department offers a supportive intellectual community, with faculty members and students who value a cooperative and constructive philosophical approach. Students are offered an opportunity to teach their own undergraduate philosophy course, typically in the third year. We also support graduate student travel for conference presentations. Since Fall 2022, students have had 60 presentations at national and international meetings, and in that same time, our students have had 16 publications in journals or books.

Further information is available at https://philosophy.missouri.edu/grad/how-apply/. For further information about the program or the application process, see our FAQ, https://philosophy.missouri.edu/grad/graduate-program-faqs.

09/30/2024

Claire Horisk will talk about her book, Dangerous Jokes, at Skylark bookshop on 9th Street in Columbia, MO, on Thursday October 24 at 6:30 pm. Free and open to the public.

Please join us on Thursday, October 24, for what will be a fascinating discussion about by author and professor Claire Horisk about the dangers of joking around. In this election season, with some highly unserious people vying for our votes, it seems like an especially good time to look at how jokes

05/29/2024

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor by Claire Horisk . About the book, from the publisher...

05/07/2024

Congratulations, Claire Horisk, for your nomination of 'Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor' for the American Philosophical Association's 2024 Joseph B. Glitter Award!

05/03/2024

Claire Horisk's book, Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor, is featured in "Philosophy in Focus" on the Oxford University Press website. Chapter 11, "The racist uncle, and other awkward situations" is available for free in May.

Over the next few months our focus will be Race delving in to a range of philosophical topics from black health, racism, black lives matter, microaggressions, racial rules, the philosophy of race, and more by inspiring authors.

04/23/2024

M Folescu's paper "Mary Shepherd on the role of proofs in our knowledge of first principles" has been recognized as a top cited paper in Noûs (for 2022-2023)!