05/31/2022 - The winner of the 2022 Caton Prize is Robert Vanderbeek. The title of Robert's paper is "Why Responsibility Doesn't Make the Cut." The winner of the 2022 Shwayder Prize is Emily Ann Pasetes. The...
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05/25/2022 - Nine philosophy undergraduates were presented with scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year. The scholarships and recipients are listed below. The Lois Green Scholarship is designed to recognize...
05/13/2022 - Congratulations to Seungil Lee for the successful defense of his dissertation, "Essays on Relations, Properties, and (Quantum) Objects"! For more information regarding Seungil's research click this...
03/30/2022 - Ben Levinstein is professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Epistemology and Decision Theory. In 2020, Professor Ben Levinstein was awarded a multi-year...
01/06/2022 - Hugh Storer Chandler, a long-time highly regarded associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, died peacefully on January 1, 2022 at Carle Foundation Hospital...
12/28/2021 - Congratulations to Alexander Sardjev and Rebecca Eng on being awarded The Lois S. Green Scholarship and The Donald W. Doerscher Award respectively, in recognition of...
12/28/2021 - Congratulations to Nick Louzon on being awarded C. E. Caton Award for his essay entitled "A Relatively Compelling Defense of Presentism."
08/20/2021 - Congratulations to Clay Alsup for the successful defense of his dissertation, "Alienation, Agency, and Integrity"!
08/12/2021 - William R. (Bill) Schroeder, longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed away peacefully on July 26, 2021, at his home in Urbana, Illinois. ...
12/18/2020 - Congratulations to Prof. Colleen Murphy, whose paper in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, "On Principled Compromise: When Does a Process of Transitional Justice Qualify as Just", was...
11/23/2020 - Does the US need to pursue transitional justice in the post-Trump era? https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1749294700
11/04/2020 - Dr. Jesse Fitts received a BA in philosophy (with minors in political science and mathematics) from the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2007 and an MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of...
09/23/2020 - Professor Helga Varden has been promoted to the rank of full professor and awarded the 2020 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award for her truly exceptional contributions. She is among the only eleven...
09/23/2020 - https://las.illinois.edu/news/blog/las-insider/2020-07-22/students-look-forward-fall-2020-...
09/23/2020 - Congratulations to Professor Benjamin Levinstein, who has been awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the academic year 2020-2021....
