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The Department has released its Spring 2018 newsletter. Click here to read it , and here for a list of all department newsletters .

PhD students Samuel Director and Gagan Sapkota have been awarded 2nd Leg Summer Fellowships from the Center for Humanities and the Arts for Summer 2018. The purpose of the fellowship is to help students to gain expertise in a field, or subfield, that is not the immediate focus of their...

PhD student Anthony Kelley has won a 2018 Summer Graduate School Fellowship and will receive three months of support for his dissertation work.

On April 5-7, Boulder will be the home to the largest conference in medieval philosophy that has recently taken place in North America. There are 63 talks scheduled, and over 70 scholars coming into town for the event. The Colloquium is made possible thanks especially to the Morris Fund, the...

3rd Boulder Formal Value Theory Workshop New Problems in Theoretical and Practical Rationality Monday, March 19th, 2018 On Monday March 19th the 3rd Boulder Formal Value Theory Workshop will be held. The one-day features six prominent philosophers from Australia, Sweden, and the US. All talks will be held in Hellems...

Four Department of Philosophy alumni dicuss how philosophy has aided their careers in the College of Arts and Science's online magazine. Read the article here .

The 2018 Morris Colloquium , on the topic "The Self and Its Realizations", will be held June 16-18, 2018. The theme will be interpreted broadly, so as to include a wide range of topics, from the psychology of the self to the nature of the neural mechanisms that implement the...

The 2019 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...

Paper submissions for the eleventh annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME) , to be held in Boulder August 9-12, 2018, are now open. Read submission guidelines and information about the conference here .

The Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Julia Staffel and Brian Talbot to the faculty. Currently at Washington University in St. Louis, they will join us in August 2018. They received their doctorates from the University of Southern California: Brian in 2009, Julia in 2013. Julia specializes in...