It is with great sadness that we announce that Professor Dickie has passed away. George T. Dickie served in the Marine Corps from 1944 to 1946. He then received his BA from Florida State…
Along with the rest of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Philosophy Department is currently operating on a revised schedule due to the COVID-19 situation. Our office is currently closed to the…
Singular Thought and Mental Files, edited by Rachel Goodman, James Genone, and Nick Kroll, is now available from Oxford University Press. The literature on singular thought has come to highlight the claim that singular thought is…
William D’Alessandro has been awarded the the APA’s Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for best articles in philosophy written by APA members who hold adjunct or limited term academic appointments. The paper for which he was…
Bailey Szustak has some upcoming APA Central presentations to share. All three are shared panels on topics related to either pedagogy or graduate student life (or both). Thursday, February 27: Teaching Hub M2/G2A.…
Will Small’s essay, “Basic Action and Practical Knowledge” has been published in the Philosophers’ Imprint. Abstract: It is a commonplace in philosophy of action that there is and must be teleologically basic action: something done…
On March 22, 2019, Kei Hotoda gave a talk, “Taking Oneself As Someone At All,” at the Philosophical Engagements with Trauma conference held at the University of North Carolina (Asheville).
Jessica Gordon Roth has been awarded a prestigious McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2019-2021 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. This is partly based on her research on “Expanding the canon and diversifying…