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The 12th annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) will take place on the CU Boulder campus August 8-11. See the schedule here .

The Feminist Philosophy Quarterly has published a special issue reflecting on the work of Alison Jaggar. Many of the contributors are students of Professor Jaggar’s, and PhD graduates of CU Boulder. The editors are Barrett Emerick (St. Mary’s, Maryland) and Scott Wisor (Minerva Schools at KGI), and the contributors include...

CU Boulder’s Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science is pleased to host the annual conference of the International Association for the Philosophy of Time this year. The chair of CHPS, and the organizer of the conference, is Prof. Heather Demarest, Assistant Professor of Philosophy specializing in philosophy of...

On Friday May 10, 2019, the Department of Philosophy was pleased to celebrate Commencement with its graduating students, friends, and families. We honor the following 59 philosophy majors who graduated in Spring 2019 with a BA in Philosophy for their passion for philosophy, their undergraduate accomplishments, and their hard work:...

Philosophy major Alex Rosenthal is currently starring in the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company's production of " The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time " at the Dairy Arts Center, which runs through May 19th. We asked him to speak a little about the play, and about his philosophical...

Ájené Robinson-Burris. Photo: Matthias Steup Ájené Robinson-Burris and Erich Riesen are philosophy PhD students in our department who gave talks at a month-long celebration of philosophy called “Longmont Thinks! Month” in April 2019. Erich and Ájené answered a few questions about this event: 1) What kind of event is this?...

PhD students Zak Kopeikin and Lisa Thomas-Smith have both won 2018-19 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence awards in recognition of their work as GPTIs.

Professor Rob Rupert will spend two weeks in late April and early May, 2019, as a Visiting Fellow at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy ( http://www.rotman.uwo.ca ) at Western University (formerly the University of Western Ontario). During this time, he’ll give presentations, meet with faculty and students, and generally contribute...

PhD student Mark Boespflug has won a Graduate School Summer Fellowship, to be taken in summer 2019.

The graduate students of the Department of Philosophy are hosting the 21st Annual Rocky Mountain Philosophy Conference this weekend, Friday March 8 - Saturday March 9, 2019. Click here for the conference website .