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Heather Demarest has been awarded an ASSETT Faculty Fellowship for three semesters, beginning this spring of 2021. Her goal is to develop standards for teaching excellence that are fair, transparent, and based in empirical research. She will consult with faculty in philosophy as well as in other departments as she...

This past weekend, CU Boulder’s Collegiate Ethics Bowl Team was awarded the Bob Ladenson "Spirit of the Ethics Bowl” Award while competing at the 25 th Silver Anniversary APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl National Competition. Named after the founder of the Ethics Bowl, the “Spirit of the Ethics Bowl” award is...

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Raul Saucedo has won the 2021 Boulder Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Raul Saucedo is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He teaches a wide variety of courses in philosophy, including logic at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels...

PhD student Dawn Jacob is starting a virtual public philosophy discussion group through POPCO , in conjunction with the Longmont Public Library, beginning on March 22 on Zoom. Each month the group will tackle a different short reading from various time periods and geographic/cultural areas. Details are on the Longmont...

Professor Carol Cleland has had a co-authored article on a proposed new classification structure for minerals published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read the CU press release here: https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/12/21/philosopher-scientists-propose-new-way-categorize-minerals

CU Boulder's Ethics Bowl Team placed second out of sixteen teams in the Rocky Mountain-Wasatch Regional Competition on Saturday, Nov 14th and earned a spot at the National Competition in February 2021. Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is a competitive event run by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics that encourages...

With great sadness, the Philosophy Department reports that our friend and colleague, Dan Sturgis, passed away earlier this week. Dr. Sturgis earned his BA in Philosophy and Political Science in 1992 from Northwestern University and his PhD from our department in 2002, writing a dissertation ‘Prairies and Paintings: The Aesthetic...

The first Center for Values and Social Policy lunchtime talk will be held online Friday, August 28 at 12:30 PM. Contact Graham Oddie at oddie@colorado.edu for the Zoom information. Featured speaker: Dr Tim Burkhardt Snider Scholar in Residence Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization University of...

The 13th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) will be held remotely August 13-16, 2020. Click here for a full schedule! For abstracts, click here . For passwords to the different Zoom rooms, please email Alastair Norcross ( norcross@colorado.edu ), Ben Hale ( bhale@colorado.edu ), Alex Beard ( Alexander.Beard@colorado.edu ),...

Julia Staffel , Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Zak Kopeikin , lecturer and a recent graduate of our PhD program, have recently conducted four online workshops on hybrid and online teaching, sharing what they have learned about using technology for online teaching. The sessions are recorded and are available for...