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Professor Rob Rupert has been awarded a visiting research fellowship by the Center for Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Evolution at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. He will spend May through July, 2017, at the Center, giving talks, working with graduate students, and conducting research.

Professor Iskra Fleva's edited essay collection, Questions of Character , has been recently released by Oxford University Press. The collection features 26 new essays on character from first-rate scholars in philosophy, psychology, economics, and law.

Department Ph.D. graduate Pamela Lomelino has been interviewed on the American Philosophical Association's blog. Read the interview here .

The Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Demarest to the faculty. Currently an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Oklahoma, she will join us in August 2017. She received her PhD from Rutgers, her B.Phil from Oxford, and her BA in Philosophy and Physics from the University...

Professor Jason Hanna received his Ph.D. in 2009. He is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Northern Illinois University where he won the 2016 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award . Read more at NIU's website here .

The Center for Values and Social Policy is pleased to announce the CVSP Undergraduate Research Conference on Normative Issues in Social Policy, Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the University of Colorado Boulder. The conference features a keynote address by Helen Frowe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Stockholm Director, Stockholm...

The Center for Values and Social Policy at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Philosophy invites applications for Visiting Fellows for the 2017-18 academic year. The Center’s Visiting Fellows program is intended for faculty who work in the values area, who have done a significant amount of work in...

Professor Adam Hosein will be recognized for the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award at the Eleventh Annual Fall Convocation & Awards Ceremony for the success of his article “Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?” published in Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang (eds.) How We Fight (Oxford,...

Professor Adam Hosein has been awarded honorable mention for the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy, for his article “ Freedom, Sex Roles, and Anti-Discrimination Law ’, ( or read the paper at Springer Link ) Law and Philosophy 34/5 (September 2015) 485-517. Click here for more information .

Professor Rob Rupert is part of an international network of scholars whose research will be supported by a nearly one million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The project leaders are Crispin Wright and Peter Sullivan. See details here .