On November 12, the philosophy department together with the Institute for the Humanities held a workshop on “Kant and Leibniz on Substance.” The invited speakers were Martha Bolton (Rutgers), Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh), James Messina…
On Monday November 7, Professor Fleischacker gave a public lecture to inaugurate his LAS Distinguished Professorship. After the event, members of the department celebrated the occasion with him at dinner.
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Sandra Bartky, our former colleague. Sandy was one of the founding members of the UIC philosophy department, and a founding member of…
It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Vivian Weil, one of UIC’s first Philosophy Ph.D.’s. Vivian embodied the pioneering spirit of the department. She joined the Ph.D. program at…
The Beyond Spacetime Project – run by Prof. Nick Huggett (UIC) and Prof. Christian Wüthrich (Geneva) – will be holding a Summer Institute in Wisconsin in June 2016. For more info go here.…
Professor Daniel Sutherland has been named a 2016 fellow in the American Council of Learned Societies. For more about the ACLS see here. For more about Prof. Sutherland’s research project – Kant’s Philosophy…
Prof. Sam Fleischacker has been named a Distinguished Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This honor recognizes scholars “who have made a significant impact upon their field through scholarship,creativity and…
Myisha Cherry, a Ph.D student in the department, hosts a philosophy podcast called “The UnMute Podcast”. Myisha interviews interesting and influential philosophers about areas where philosophy meets real-world issues. See below for a…