Gonzaga University Philosophy Department

04/07/2025

04/02/2025

Dr. Richard Atkins (Boston College) will offer an engaging and inquisitive lecture on paradoxes and puzzles about knowledge based on his innovative introduction to philosophy textbook Puzzled?! (Hackett 2015). Dr. Atkins is known not only for his innovative research in epistemology, American philosophy, the history of philosophy, and logic, but also for his inviting spirit in philosophy which invites everyone to remember why they fell in love with deep questions in the first place.

03/28/2025

Conference on Values and Responsibility in AI Technologies

10/24/2024

Did we say pizza? Come join us for our every semester pizza party on November 4th!!

10/04/2024

Professor Braune’s Philosophy 101 course held a mock trial for Euthyphro’s father in the Gonzaga Law facilities. Verdict: not guilty!

08/22/2024

Philosophers working on assessment!

11/15/2022

Zag philosophers are all over Spokane! Dr. Lassiter is spending the morning talking with young thinkers at the 5th Grade career fair.

11/04/2022

IN ONE HOUR! COME HAVE PIZZA WITH PHILOSOPHERS!

11/02/2022

Happy (Belated) Halloween from the GU Philosophy Department! Professor Braune wins the year for most creative costume. From Dr. Braune: The costume depicts Lady Philosophy, from Boethius's sixth century classic book, The Consolation of Philosophy. Philosophy visits and consoles the unjustly imprisoned Boethius as he awaits his ex*****on at the hands of the Emperor Theodoric's men. Lady Philosophy's dress is torn and damaged, because Philosophy is always under attack. She wears a ladder symbolizing the educational curriculum Boethius advanced, beginning with the Trivium (Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric) and Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music), undertaken before the study of Philosophy. Philosophy's dress also has a Pi and a Theta, representing practical and theoretical knowledge. In her left hand she carries books, and her right, a queenly scepter.

10/28/2022

One week from today! Come have philosophy pizza as we get ready to register for Spring 2022!

05/08/2022

Check out this cool video from Dr. Layne's PHIL 201 students!