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We are pleased to announce the Department’s Visiting Fellows for 2016-17. Professor Nina Emery (Brown, sometime in February 2017, duration TBA) Professor Julia Staffel (Washington University, 2-3 weeks in March 2017) Professor Kris McDaniel (Syracuse, 3 weeks in April 2017) Professor Peter Klein (Rutgers, 3 weeks in September/October 2017) The...

Professor Emerita Bonnie Steinbock , who retired from SUNY Albany in 2014 after a long and distinguished career as one of the leading bioethicists of her generation, will be a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Values and Social Policy this fall from September 13 – October 13. She will...

The Origins Project will be holding its inaugural workshop on origins August 15-17 in the SEEC Building on East Campus. Click here for a full schedule .

Kristin Mickelson, who graduated in 2012 after completing a dissertation under Robert Hanna's supervision on "Free Will Fundamentals: Agency, Determinism, and (In)compatibility", has taken a two-year research position in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg, where she will be part of the...

Incoming PhD student Cherie Braden is interviewed at the APA Blog. Read the interview here .

Incoming Ph.D. student Sam Director has been awarded a scholarship by The Institute for Humane Studies . This award is for “promising students dedicated to developing, teaching, and applying the principles of a free society."

Jasmine Carter has recently been awarded two Ph.D. scholarships. One was given to her by The Institute for Humane Studies and is for “promising students dedicated to developing, teaching, and applying the principles of a free society." The other is an Adam Smith Fellowship , which is co-sponsored by the...

Philosopher Carolyn Dicey Jennings (U. of California-Merced) recently compiled statistics on the ratio of female-to-male Ph.D. graduates of philosophy departments in the U.S. Of the 86 departments providing data for the period 2004–2014, CU-Boulder’s philosophy department has the 13th highest ratio: 38% of the Ph.D.’s awarded in Philosophy at CU...

Tyler Hildebrand, who graduated in 2011 after completing a dissertation under Michael Tooley ’s supervision on "Empiricism, Natural Regularity, and Necessity", has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Thomas Metcalf, who graduated in 2010 after completing a dissertation under Michael Huemer ’s supervision on "Rational Intuition", has been offered a tenure-track Assistant Professorship at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.