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• Statements condemning racisct violence and policy brutality issued by the American Philosophical Association (APA) Board of Officers and the APA Graduate Student Council

  Jun 22, 2020 3:00 pm0 views

  Statements condemning racisct violence and policy brutality issued by the American Philosophical Association (APA) Board of Officers and the APA Graduate Student Council

  https://www.apaonline.org/page/racist-violence-police-brutality

• The C. E. Caton Award

  May 28, 2020 12:30 pm2 views

  The annual Caton Prize for best graduate student essay has been awarded to Seungil Lee for his essay "The Passage of Time." We have also recently learned that Seungil has been awarded the Graduate College's Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Please join me in congratulating Seungil for both of these achievements.

• An honor for our new colleague, Guillermo Del Pinal

  Aug 22, 2019 12:30 pm6 views

  Guillermo Del Pinal, who has just joined the department as an assistant professor, makes an appearance in the most recent The Philosopher's Annual, which attempts to pick the ten top articles from the 2018 literature. Guillermo was named to the list for his “Meaning, Modulation, and Context: A Multidimensional Semantics for Truth-Conditional Pragmatics,” which appeared in Linguistics and Philosophy. (You can see the full list here: https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/08/philosophers-annual-ten-top-articles-from-the-2018-literature.html.)

• Book Publication Announcement

  Apr 25, 2019 11:30 am21 views

  Congratulations to Professor Christopher Gregory Weaver on the publication of his new book Fundamental Causation: Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World, 1st Edition.

  https://www.routledge.com/Fundamental-Causation-Physics-Metaphysics-and-the-Deep-Structure-of/Weaver/p/book/9781138213135

• Congratulations!!

  Apr 9, 2019 1:45 pm17 views

  Congratulations to Juan Bernal on passing the Bar exam!

• Interview with faculty member - Professor Colleen Murphy

  Feb 11, 2019 12:15 pm19 views

  https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/transitional-justice/

  Transitional Justice -

  www.3ammagazine.com

  As a philosopher, normative claims are of interest in themselves.  But in the context of transitional justice, critical evaluation and defense of normative claims matters for an additional reason: they are a source of deep disagreement.  Divergent and incompatible judgments about processes by citizens and by observers of transitional justice processes often reflect at their core disagreements about what morality demands in transitions.  There are debates about what the goal of particular processes of transitional justice should be: forgiveness, retribution, restorative justice, peace, deterrence, ending impunity, social unity, and/or economic justice.   Disagreement about overall aim leads in turn lead to disagreements about the defensibility of certain responses to wrongdoing.  Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Colleen Murphy.

• Congratulations!!

  Oct 26, 2018 2:00 pm10 views

  Kristin Seemuth Whaley Awarded Grant for Innovations in TeachingPosted October 24, 2018

  Graceland University Assistant Professor of Philosophy Kristin Seemuth Whaley, PhD, has been awarded a Grant for Innovations in Teaching by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers. With this support, Seemuth Whaley will pursue a project evaluating the use of alternative assessments for satisfying learning outcomes in philosophy courses.

  https://www.graceland.edu/faculty-highlights/news/1647249/kristin-seemuth-whaley-awarded-grant-for-innovations-in-teaching?fbclid=IwAR0eTECxLAw98Tx4lk18OLliP9DS4GHIhuCWrMXGOhaHGcrUefJIXISJ0wQ

   

• Congratulations!!

  Jun 6, 2018 10:30 am14 views

  Nir Ben-Moshe has been awarded a six-month residential fellowship as part of Liberty Fund's "Adam Smith's Enlightened World" project, which is supported by the John Templeton Foundation. He will be using his time at Liberty Fund, during summer and fall of 2019, to work on his book project, entitled "Idealization and the Moral Point of View: An Adam Smithian Account of Moral Reasons."

  More details can be found here:

  https://adamsmithsociety.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/smith-scholar-annoucement-9-mo.pdf

• 40th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference

  Apr 20, 2018 12:00 pm43 views

  The graduate students in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce that the 40th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference will take place April 20-21, 2018. Keynoting the conference is Harry Brighouse, Mildred Fish-Harnack Professor of Philosophy of Education, Professor of Philosophy, Carol Dickson-Bascom Professor of the Humanities, and Affiliate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This event is open to the public. 

• LAS Experts

  Mar 14, 2018 1:00 pm4 views

  The latest LAS Experts featured faculty member is Colleen Murphy. The story about her work is highlighted on the college homepage and directly accessible at http://www.las.illinois.edu/news/article/?id=24526&/news//news/2018/lasexperts_murphy18/.

• Congratulations!!

  Jan 24, 2018 8:15 am15 views

  Congratulations!!  The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded our colleague Shelley Weinberg its 2017 prize for the best book in the history of philosophy published during the preceding year. (Consciousness in Locke was published by OUP in 2016.) The list of distinguished company to have won that award in the past can be found at https://sites.ualberta.ca/~jhphil/book.article.prize.html.

• Graduate Student Activity

  Nov 7, 2017 11:00 am24 views

  On Friday, March 16, 2018, Ashli Anda will be presenting a paper called "Conditions for Cultivation: Welfare Policies at the Contemporary University" as part of a panel discussion ("Educating Virtues: What Are They and How Should We Do It?") at the Philosophy, Politics, & Economics Society conference in New Orleans, LA. 

  Addison Ellis has a paper forthcoming in Kant Yearbook called "The Internality of Moral Faith in Kant's Religion".

  Addison Ellis presented his paper "The Case for Absolute Spontaneity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" at the 3rd Annual Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Workshop in Mexico City on December 1-2, 2017.  Addison's paper "The Case for Absolute Spontaneity in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" is forthcoming in a monographic issue of Con-Textos Kantianos called "Kant and Current Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology".