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The Philosophy Department announces the retirement of Professor Alison Jaggar as of August 31 st , 2020. Professor Alison Jaggar is one of the foremost political philosophers in the US, and is widely credited with having been a pioneer in the field of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of gender,...

The Department of Philosophy announces the retirement of Professor Graeme Forbes as of May 31, 2020. Professor Forbes is widely regarded as one of the most prominent recent analytic philosophers working in metaphysics and philosophy of language. He earned his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford in 1980, writing a thesis...

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The Philosophy Department is thrilled to announce the establishment of the Paduano Family Endowed Scholarship Fund. We are enormously grateful to John Philip Paduano (’04 BA, Philosophy with distinction, CU Boulder) and Brooke Larson Carleton for establishing this scholarship for philosophy majors in our department. A $1,100 scholarship will be...

The 2020 Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. The prize comes with a cash award of $500 as well as formal recognition of the honor at the Department’s spring commencement ceremony. The competition is open...

Aspen Heidekrueger is a Colorado native who is currently a junior at CU Boulder. She is pursuing a bachelor's degree in philosophy and is interested in the study of ethics and metaphysics. Aspen is also a leukemia survivor who underwent three years of chemotherapy treatment during her high school career...

The 2020 Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. The prize comes with a cash award of $500 as well as formal recognition of the honor at the Department’s spring commencement ceremony. The competition is open...

The College of Arts and Sciences Magazine has done a profile of Blain Howard, CU Philosophy major class of ’01, and Senior Communication Manager at Microsoft’s XBox division. Read the article here: https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/02/19/philosophy-guides-alum-career-filled-kindness-games Howard says, "The major has proven to be practical. Philosophy helps me objectively assess activities and logically...

The Thirteenth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) will be held August 13-16, 2020, on the CU Boulder campus, and is now open for paper submissions. See the call for papers here .

In March, 2020, Professor Rob Rupert will be a Visiting Fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University, Ontario ( http://www.rotman.uwo.ca ). During his time there, he’ll give presentations, meet with faculty and students, and generally contribute to, and participate in, the intellectual life of the Institute.