We are sad to announce that former Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (MCPS) Director, C. Wade Savage, passed away at the age of 88 in November 2020. Professor Savage was a longtime member of MCPS and its Director from 1980–1984.

Graduate Admissions for Fall 2022

Michael Bennett McNulty "notes that philosophy coursework gives students skills that they can use in a wide array of career paths. ... Philosophy degree recipients are often ‘spectacular writers’ and ... have widely applicable skills."

Being from NYC, Cassidy Drummond hasn’t seen her family since January due to COVID-19. But with the help of her friends and professors, she built a support system that helped her through the semester.

Alan Love of the philosophy department has developed an interdisciplinary course on “how we know what we know in medicine,” co-taught with Steven Stovitz of the medical school. Combining philosophy and medicine, the course teaches students who are preparing for a variety of health-related careers.

Philosophy Professor Valerie Tiberius offers ideas on how, even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we might think about the keys to achieving well-being: what our values are, what it means to fulfill them and whether we are living in ways that uphold those values.

In 1939, at the outset of World War II, the British writer and theologian C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) delivered a speech titled, “Learning in wartime,” where he said, “War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it.” Professor Alan Love co-writes this article for the LA Times.

Sara Parhizgari awarded a prestigious 2020-2021 Josephine de Karman Fellowship

As part of the directives from University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the governor’s office, the Philosophy Department is now running a virtual office environment.