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Portrait of Geoffrey Hellman.

Gunky Continua and Mathematical Structures
What is mathematics? Are the lines, planes, and intervals of mathematics composed of points, or are there other ways of thinking about these objects? According to Professor Geoffrey Hellman, questions like these have always posed problems for the discipline of mathematics. In two new books, co-authored with Stewart Shapiro of The Ohio State University, Hellman takes on these and other questions, seeking to clarify what is at stake in the various answers one might offer to them.
Prof. Samuel C. Fletcher outside in spring, brown leather jacket, glasses

Philosophy of Physics in High School Classrooms
Do scientific theories fully describe the world? Do electrons and electromagnetic fields really exist? What sets science apart from other kinds of inquiry? Philosophers of science like Professor Samuel C. Fletcher grapple with these complicated questions daily. Fletcher recently introduced this way of thinking to a group of bright high school students in the Honors Mentor Connection class at Wayzata High School.
Male student with European town in winter in background

Finding his roots: A scholarship student explores his German heritage
Philosophy major Jordan Kleist, ’19, is learning abroad in Austria thanks to the Frank D. Hirschbach Study Abroad Scholarship. Kleist is there to connect with his heritage and deepen his understanding of German philosophers through language study. “To really understand how those philosophers viewed the world and conceived their ideas, I will need to study them in their original language,” he says.
Portrait of Bennet McNulty

Core Competencies in Action
“Our students want to know how their learning is going to be useful for them, and we need to help them with that.” Assistant professor of philosophy and Career Readiness faculty fellow Michael Bennett McNulty is changing the way he teaches. His goal? Making sure each of his students knows exactly how course material connects to a future career.
Portrait of Jessica Gordon-Roth and Roy T. Cook

Cutting-Edge Scholarship: Feminist Philosophy and Formal Logic
With Jessica Gordon-Roth's specialization in feminist philosophy and Roy T. Cook's attention on mathematical logic, semantic paradoxes, and the aesthetics of Lego sculptures, they might seem like an unlikely pair of collaborators. But the two philosophy professors have found overlap in a topic that they argue is in desperate need of philosophical reflection: feminist philosophy and formal logic.