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Looking for a great book to read this summer? Check out the philosophy faculty summer reading recommendations!
07/17/2022

Looking for a great book to read this summer? Check out the philosophy faculty summer reading recommendations!

From the collapse of the Soviet Union to Black Futurist Sci-Fi, this year’s summer book recommendations by the philosophy faculty offer choices for everyone to ponder in the hammock. Check out the books our faculty members recommend or are planning to read this summer. We hope you find some great ...

07/05/2022

Hidden in plain view on the southeast side of Savery Hall, just about 15 feet up the wall facing Gowen Hall, are three pedestals with ornamental overhangs for housing statues

Professor Nancy Jecker on Abortion and bioethics: Principles to guide U.S. abortion debates.
06/24/2022

Professor Nancy Jecker on Abortion and bioethics: Principles to guide U.S. abortion debates.

A bioethicist explains the four ethical principles that guide medical practitioners’ thinking about abortion, such as autonomy and justice.

06/11/2022

Congratulations to all the graduates!!!

Congratulations to Michael Ball-Blakely on his successful defense of his dissertation “Immigration in a Global Economy: ...
06/07/2022

Congratulations to Michael Ball-Blakely on his successful defense of his dissertation “Immigration in a Global Economy: Why the Left Should Embrace Open Borders.” We are so proud of Michael!

05/24/2022

‘In some sense, everyone is a philosopher. We are all in this strange situation of being alive,’ says Hilary Lawson

Nancy Jecker examines defining personhood in light of the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that could strike down...
05/19/2022

Nancy Jecker examines defining personhood in light of the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that could strike down Roe v. Wade.

Nancy Jecker examines defining personhood in light of the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that could strike down Roe v. Wade. If the right to an abortion is overturned by the court’s final ruling, which is expected in June 2022, it will not be the end of the abortion debate. Jecker discuss...

We are saddened to share that Emeritus Professor Charles Marks has passed away.
05/18/2022

We are saddened to share that Emeritus Professor Charles Marks has passed away.

The Department of Philosophy is saddened to share that Emeritus Professor Charles Marks has passed away. Charles joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966, served as Chair of the department from 1980-1982, and retired in 2003. His research and classes focused on philosophy of the mind and the hist...

Philosophy major Alena Alvarez-Saldivar interviewed Professor Ameila Wirts about the recent leak of the Supreme Court dr...
05/17/2022

Philosophy major Alena Alvarez-Saldivar interviewed Professor Ameila Wirts about the recent leak of the Supreme Court draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Philosophy major Alena Alvarez-Saldivar interviewed Professor Ameila Wirts about the recent leak of the Supreme Court draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which would overturn the previous decision on abortion rights established by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Ca...

Join us for our colloquium today at 3:30 pm in Thompson 125 for "From Free Will to Agency" - Adina Roskies, Dartmouth Co...
05/13/2022

Join us for our colloquium today at 3:30 pm in Thompson 125 for "From Free Will to Agency" - Adina Roskies, Dartmouth College

Philosophy alumna Ellen Galbraith named vice president and general manager of Stevens Pass Ski area. Congratulations Ell...
05/11/2022

Philosophy alumna Ellen Galbraith named vice president and general manager of Stevens Pass Ski area. Congratulations Ellen!

University of Washington alumna and former Western Washington ski racing coach Ellen Galbraith was named general manager of Stevens Pass Tuesday morning.

Meet Graduate Student Cody Dout:
05/09/2022

Meet Graduate Student Cody Dout:

The APA interviewed graduate student Cody C. Dout about his philosophical work, which examines “the tacit assumptions within white-dominated philosophical literatures and aims to show how arguments within these encounter moral and epistemic limits when it comes to the theorization of Black life in...

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