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On Wednesday 2/27/2019, Norlin Library hosted #ILookLikeAPhilosopher, featuring panelists Profs. Heather Demarest , Ajume Wingo , and Mitzi Lee , who talked about how they got into philosophy, their experiences as students and professionals, and ideas about diversity and the future of the field. The event was organized by Frederick...

The 2019 Undergraduate History of Philosophy Essay Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the area of history of philosophy (where the history of philosophy is understood as including figures, texts, topics, and debates prior to 1950). The prize comes with a cash...

Under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to read someone’s diary without their knowledge? To engage in a loud argument in public? To buy ivory? Eight teams from five area high schools came together to discuss these questions and many more at the third annual Colorado High School...

The twelfth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress will take place August 8-11, 2019 at the University of Colorado Boulder. See the Call for Papers here .

The 2019 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...

PhD candidate Joseph Wilson has won the Graduate School Dissertation Award for the academic year 2019-2020. The award, one of the Arts and Humanities Dissertation Fellowships , gives the selected student funding and tuition coverage for the academic year in order to enable them to devote themselves to their dissertation.

The College of Arts and Sciences profiles the new "Philosophy and Sports" course (PHIL 2240), and course creator Alex Wolf-Root , in the current issue of the online Arts and Sciences Magazine .

During the Spring of 2019 Graham Oddie will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala, Sweden .

Caleb Pickard. Photo: Matthias Steup The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce Ethics and Information Technology (PHIL 2160), a new course about the moral implications of emerging technologies for ourselves and our society. The first two sections of this course will be taught in Spring '19 by Caleb Pickard,...

Photo: Matthias Steup The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Zee Perry to the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Perry is an Instructor and Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department and CU’s Center for the Study of Origins, respectively. Before Colorado, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...