Even as the semester went virtual, senior Elizabeth Sirianni remained positive. With the help of professors, peers, and her liberal arts education, she has hope for a bright…
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…
“Is it okay to walk your pet through a cemetery?” Developed alongside the philosophy department by new assistant professor Dr. Cat Saint-Croix, the High School Regional Ethics…
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…
Jude Goossens (Philosophy and Neuroscience major) wins the prestigeous James A. Johnson Scholarship Award and The President’s Student Leadership and Service Award.
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…
MCPS Director Alan C, Love (Philosophy) and Steven D. Stovitz (Family Medicine and Community Health) have a commentary published in the Los Angeles Times (May 7, 2020) on the…
In a prompt on Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog by Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Chicago, Leiter talks about his favorite introductory texts for philosophy…
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…