Philosophy Department News

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James Schwartz was recently featured on SpaceWatch.Global's Space Café podscast.

Noell Birondo received the American Philosophical Association’s 2019 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought for his paper “The Virtues of Mestizaje: Lessons from Las Casas on Aztec Human Sacrifice”.

The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce Forest Kelly as the winner of the Craig Macy Endowed Scholarship in Philosophy for 2020.

Diversity institutes support students from groups underrepresented in the discipline of philosophy as they hone their philosophical interests, become part of a community, and gain insight into the graduate admissions process.

Philosophy major Adara Corbin (front left) attended SIPP@Brown in 2019, the Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown University.

James Schwartz's book, The Value of Science in Space Exploration, is now available from Oxford University Press.

Honors student Sierra Bauman presented her research on the history of philosophy and the concept of “lo Mexicano” at the 2019 Moral and Political Philosophy at the Border Conference.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering will feature a contribution from Wichita State University’s Professor Sterrett from the Department of Philosophy.

The book is the newest in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series and follows on the heels of the HBO Perry Mason mini-series starring Matthew Rhys and John Lithgow.