Prof. Fleischacker has been given the Distinguished Researcher award, from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Below is a description of the award, and a description of Prof. Fleischacker’s recent research.…
The Central Meeting of the American Philosophical Association is in Chicago this year. As part of that meeting there will be an “author-meets-critics” session for Prof. Sedgwick’s new book. The session will take…
This past year Professor Sally Sedgwick was named an LAS Distinguished Professor. She marked the occasion by giving a public lecture (“Our All-Too-Human Hegelian Agency”) on Oct 29. It was a great chance…
Graduate students in the philosophy department had a great year in the competition for awards from the graduate college. Tiziana Vistarini won a Outstanding Thesis award. William D’Alessandro won a Chancellor’s Graduate Research…
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has an undergraduate advisor for philosophy, Albert Hernandez (http://philosophy.las.uic.edu/philosophy/people/staff). Students who wish to declare a philosophy major or minor should get in touch with Mr Hernandez.…
Prof. Sally Sedgwick’s recent book, “Hegel’s Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity”, has been reviewed in a number of places, including: MIND, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Kantian Review, British Journal of the History…
Sean Morris, a recent PhD from the department, has just had a paper accepted in the Journal of the History of Philosophy: “Quine, Russell, and Naturalism: From a Logical Point of View”.
On May 1st we held our end of the year party to congratulate graduating majors and their families. The Grover undergraduate prize was awarded to Brie Madrid and Licia O’Neil. Tim Crew-Anderson, a…