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From the left: James White, Margot Crowe, Robert Shay, Timothy Orr, and Deb Coffin The Philosophy Department is extremely grateful to Mrs. Margot Crowe for a generous legacy gift she made this year in the name of her late husband, Prof. Charles Lawson Crowe (1928-2013), who was a professor in...

Congratulations to our colleague Professor Alison Jaggar, who was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 7th, 2017, joining the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Charles Darwin, T.S. Eliot, Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more than 250 Nobel Laureates. http://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2017/04/12/biochemist-philosopher-join-american-academy-arts-and-sciences

We are pleased to host the 10th annual meeting of the American Association of Mexican Philosophers this coming weekend, September 8-10, 2017. It's co-sponsored by our MAP chapter and the CVSP. All sessions will be held at HLMS 269. For a full schedule click here . For more information, please...

This Fall Semester, René Baston – a doctoral student from Heinrich-Heine University – will be visiting the Philosophy Dept. His visit is funded by a scholarship from the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst). While in residence, he will be working on his doctoral dissertation on the nature of implicit attitudes,...

Adam Hosein, Associate Professor in Philosophy, will be leaving us and going to Northeastern University in Boston as Associate Professor of Philosophy this fall. Prof. Hosein specializes in moral, political and legal philosophy, with a special interest in areas of international concern and issues relating to race and gender. He...

PhD student Mark Boespflug has won the 2017 Stahl Prize. The Stahl Prize is given in memory of Professor Gary Stahl, who taught at CU from 1962 to 1996. It recognizes a graduate student who has made a significant contribution toward bringing the discipline of philosophy to bear on some...

PhD student Samuel Director has won a Humane Studies Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies for AY17-18.

PhD student Spencer Case has won the 2017 Jentzsch Prize, awarded once a year for the best graduate student paper submitted to the Jentzsch Prize Committee. The prize includes a cash award and an invitation to present the paper as part of next year's Colloquium series.

PhD students Mark Boespflug and Joseph Wilson have won Research Assistantships with the Origins Project for AY17-18.

For the 2017-2018 academic year, Professor Chris Heathwood will take residence as a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University’s Murphy Institute. He plans to complete a book manuscript on well-being and desire.