Assistant philosophy professor Michael Bennett McNulty discusses the challenges of communicating about the liberal arts in ways that appeal to students, parents, and employers.
Assistant philosophy professor Jessica Gordon-Roth was a featured guest on the TV show "It's a Woman's World," where she converses about philosophy and its application to our daily life.
2015 graduate Divya Palanisamy has found her background in philosophy to be anything but impractical. From science to healthcare to education, she has found wide application for the skills she developed as a philosophy student.
Professor Jessica Gordon-Roth works tirelessly to diversify and expand philosophy's early modern canon to include traditionally ignored figures in order to portray a more accurate picture of the period and also show the diversity of the discipline.
If there is anything that philosophy has nothing to say about, one might think it’s sports. But in Spring 2017, philosophy professor Bennett McNulty showed otherwise, teaching a course entitled Sports, Reason, and Society. Highlighting the moral problems that arise in professional sports, McNulty shows how philosophy is especially suited to foster a sense of social, civic, and ethical engagement.
Philosophy alum Dessa’s sold-out orchestral debut was met with broad acclaim. The concert’s narrative about jettisoning old love was fueled, in part, by a neuroscience collaboration with the University’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. Associate Professor Cheryl Olman (psychology) and researchers Andrea Grant (radiology) and Philip Burton (CLA) started working with Dessa last November to turn her brain into art for an evening of entertainment and education.
Last year, Valerie Tiberius, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, conducted what she called “The Value of Philosophy Survey.” Over 2,500 philosophers responded to the survey, which asked 24 questions, and in her Presidential Address at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) last month, Professor Tiberius discussed the results.
Roy T. Cook doesn’t look like a stereotypical philosophy professor. He doesn’t smoke a pipe, have a beard or wear tweed jackets. Instead, he has a tattoo on his arm depicting the panels on the chest of the R2-D2 “Star Wars” droid.
An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation C Kenneth Waters, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary Basic accounts of scientific knowledge typically present it as a system for...
