The Philosophy Department is happy to announce a banner year in hiring, with 3 exciting new members of our tenure-track faculty. Please join us in welcoming Professors Alison Duncan Kerr, Kevin...
The John Locke Society will be holding its Annual Conference at the University of Illinois, from June 13-15. Professor Shelley Weinberg, who sits on the Executive Committee, is organizing the event.
Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and world renowned moral philosopher, studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
S-J (Sami) Savonius-Wroth is a Teaching Assistant Professor, whose research interests lie in the fields of early modern philosophy and political philosophy. Sami was a student at the University of...
Noël Saenz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who specializes in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion. He is interested in a range of issues that have to do with layered view of reality (...
Shelley Weinberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy, who specializes in 17th and 18th century philosophy of mind, epistemology (both natural and religious), and metaphysics—with an emphasis on the...
Zach Biondi is a Lecturer in Philosophy, who is interested in the history of philosophy, ethics, and technology. He has special interests in connections between Kant's moral and practical philosophy...
Jochen Bojanowski is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, who does research in moral and political philosophy, with a particular interest in Kant’s practical philosophy. His first book, Kant’s...
Helga Varden is a Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Gender and Women Studies, whose main research interests are in Kant’s practical philosophy, legal-political philosophy, feminist...
Nir Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on the intersection between contemporary and 18th-century moral philosophy as well as on biomedical...
This 2021 collection provides a comprehensive survey of Locke’s work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising almost sixty chapters...
This 2020 book rethinks Kant's views on human nature by making space for sex, love, and gender within his accounts of moral freedom. It is the first to develop a Kantian account of how to be a sexual...