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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...

Kelsey Grant wins Udall Scholarship Kelsey Grant, a junior who is double majoring in political science and philosophy, has won a Udall Scholarship. She advocates for climate change policies and environmental stewardship. The Udall Scholarship rewards leadership, public service and a commitment to the environment and Native American issues. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/05/12/cu-boulder-junior-lands-prestigious-udall-scholarship...

The Department is pleased to announce its virtual Spring 2020 Graduation website, available at https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/graduation-spring-2020 , featuring a list of graduates, graduate awards, and speeches from faculty members. Congratulations to all our graduates!

The Philosophy Department announces the retirement of Professor Alison Jaggar as of August 31 st , 2020. Professor Alison Jaggar is one of the foremost political philosophers in the US, and is widely credited with having been a pioneer in the field of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of gender,...

The Department of Philosophy announces the retirement of Professor Graeme Forbes as of May 31, 2020. Professor Forbes is widely regarded as one of the most prominent recent analytic philosophers working in metaphysics and philosophy of language. He earned his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford in 1980, writing a thesis...

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The Philosophy Department is thrilled to announce the establishment of the Paduano Family Endowed Scholarship Fund. We are enormously grateful to John Philip Paduano (’04 BA, Philosophy with distinction, CU Boulder) and Brooke Larson Carleton for establishing this scholarship for philosophy majors in our department. A $1,100 scholarship will be...

The 2020 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...