News

The Department's Center for Values and Social Policy sponsored the first annual Colorado High School Ethics Bowl on February 4, 2017. Read more about the event here .

Professor Rob Rupert has been given a College Scholar Award, which will provide him with a semester’s release from teaching in order to work on a book manuscript. This award is made possible through the generosity of donors to the College of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Ben Hale’s book, The Wild and the Wicked: On Nature and Human Nature has been published by MIT Press. Professor Hale is a philosopher in the Department of Environmental Studies, with a courtesy appointment in the Philosophy Department. See the details of the book here . Click here for...

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...