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Welcome to the Department! Have a look at our 2023-2024 Newsletter here!

The Philosophy Department at CU Boulder has large and thriving BA, MA, and Ph.D programs, with one of the largest undergraduate Philosophy majors in the US (more than 200 majors, and 300-400 minors). It has 24 permanent faculty members (19 tenure-track, 5 teaching-track), and numerous lecturers. It is highly ranked in the latest edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report, both overall (27^th nationally), and in numerous specialty areas (tied for 1^st in Applied Ethics, and Medieval Philosophy; tied for 10^th in17th Century Philosophy; tied for 11^th in Epistemology, and Metaethics; tied for 12^th in Normative Ethics, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science; tied for 15^th in Moral Psychology, and Decision Theory, Rational Choice, and Game Theory; tied for 16^th in Political Philosophy; tied for 19^th in Metaphysics). It hosts the annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), which is one of the largest (if not the largest) annual international ethics conferences in the world, and the annual conference on the History and Philosophy of Science (CHPS), as well as an annual graduate student philosophy conference, The Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference (RMPC). It houses the Center for Values and Social Policy, whose activities include organizing the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, hosting weekly lunchtime talks, and sponsoring visiting scholars. It also has a large and active undergraduate Philosophy Club, which competes both regionally and nationally in the college-level Ethics Bowl. It also hosts the regional High School Ethics Bowl every year.

Registration for Fall is open! See the full list of Department courses here.

We have moved! While Hellems is being renovated, we are now in Muenzinger, 1st floor. If you use the entrance on Colorado Ave (up the big set of steps, across from the bus stop) you'll be in the MUEN lobby. In the back right corner there's a hallway that leads to D110 and D120.

Terri Baldridge and Alex Beard are in D110, as are the mailboxes. Karen Sites is in D120. D110 contains shared spaces for faculty use, and D120 contains shared spaces for grad student use. The (shared) offices for PHIL faculty are D140 A-D.

Contact information for faculty is here and for staff is here, or you can use the general department email at phildept@colorado.edu

Why take philosophy? See a video with answers here!

Interested in majoring or minoring in philosophy? Visit our Featured Alumni page to see what some of our philosophy alumni have gone on to do.  Read a story featuring our philosophy program alumni in the A&S Magazine.

See pictures of our latest Department events at https://anorcross.smugmug.com/Events/CU-Events

Have a look at our 2023-24 Newsletter here.

Department bylaws are here. Have feedback on department culture, leadership or policy? Please use our form: Philosophy Feedback