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Submissions are open now for the ninth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME), August 11-14, 2016. See the call for papers here: http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/center/rome.shtml

Professor Rob Rupert has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany. He will spend roughly the month of June as a research fellow working with Prof. Tobias Schlicht's group on Situated Cognition and will also be affiliated with RUB's Center for Mind, Brain, and Cognitive Evolution and...

Professor Adam Hosein has been named a winner in the APA's Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest for the best opinion-editorials published by philosophers. Read the winning essay " Prosecuting on Torture Isn't Politics, It's Human Rights ".

The University of Colorado Boulder announced today that the Center for Western Civilization in the College of Arts and Sciences is now the Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy (CWCTP) and incorporates CU-Boulder's successful Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy program. Read more here .

Professor Graham Oddie has been invited by the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm to be the 2015 Distinguished Visiting Professor during the Fall. The Institute for Futures Studies ( http://www.iffs.se/en/about-the-institute/ ) is an advanced institute for social science research focusing on issues deemed important for the future. The Institute's...

The first Cleland-Lloyd Graduate Workshop on Modeling was held here August 18-19.

The Center for Values and Social Policy has launched a new blog, " What's Wrong? ". Follow the blog on Facebook here .

The eighth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference (RoME) will be held in the Eaton Humanities building, August 6-9.

Professor David Boonin has been appointed Chair of the Philosophy Department effective August 1st, 2015. Professor Boonin formerly served as Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities.

The University of Colorado Boulder will host an National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university teachers July 6-31, on the topic " Between Medieval and Modern: Philosophy from 1300 to 1700 ".