Congratulations to Debbie Jackson, chosen recipient of a 2015 SBS Staff Award, for outstanding personnel who make significant contributions to their department and to the University.

Philosophy major and continuing MA student Michael Flowers was conferred the 2015 Outstanding Research Award from the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  This award recognizes a graduating senior who has demonstrated academic achievement, originality, and creativity in an independent, undergraduate research project.  For his project, Michael chose to examine the philosophy of resistance in youth subculture. 
... Read more

Congratulations to Vincent Redhouse and Ahva Sadeghi, Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law (PPEL) majors and scholars in the UA Honors College, who were among 12 recipients awarded the 2014 Honors College Award for Outstanding Students.

We are pleased to present the list of speakers for the Spring 2015 LAW/PHIL 673A Seminar on Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility.  The seminar meets at 330-6pm on Tuesday afternoons in the College of Law Rm 137. 

February 10:  Speaker: Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School)
“Snowballing Inequality: Meritocracy and the Crisis of Capitalism.”            
 
February 17:  Speaker: Samuel Freeman (Philosophy, University of Pennsylvannia)
“Rawls on... Read more

Congratulations to Philosophy majors Brandon Day and Alexander Hartz, and Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law (PPEL) majors, Dardan Kosumi, Nicholas Mahon, Dominic Medina, Meezan Mir, Casey Murray, Vincent Redhouse, Alyssa Rogers, and Christopher Romero,  who have won $500 Magellan Circle Scholarships for their... Read more

The UA Philosophy Department is pleased to present the Spring 2015 Philosophy Colloquium Series featuring the following prominent speakers:

January 30
SHYAM NAIR, Lingnan University
"The Accrual of Reasons: Some First Thoughts"

February 6
TIMOTHY SCHROEDER, Ohio State University
"A Role For Neuroscience In Moral Psychology"

February 13
JASON TURNER, Saint Louis University
"Towards A (Broadly) Tractarian Theory Of Modality... Read more

The UA Philosophy Department is pleased to present the Fall 2014 Philosophy Colloquium Series featuring the following prominent speakers:

October 3
CHRIS TIMPSON, Brasenose College, Oxford

October 10
CHRIS MALONEY, University of Arizona

October 17
MARY-LOUISE GILL, Brown University

October 24
NIKO KOLODNY, University of California, Berkeley

October 31
JANICE DOWELL, Syracuse University

November 7
TYLER... Read more

Congratulations to Eric Bevans and Vincent Colaianni, Philosophy, Politics, Economics & Law (PPEL) majors and Accelerated Masters students in Philosophy, who have been selected as the University of Arizona's representatives at the 2014 National Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) Student Colloquium at Duke University in February.  This is the fifth annual PPE Colloquium for undergraduates from PPE Programs around the country.  Organized around papers that are read in advance, the... Read more