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- Graduate student Kevin Crandall’s paper titled “Evidentiary Interpretation, Discursive Injustice, and Rap on Trial” was recently published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, marking Crandall’s first publication.The paper explores Rap on Trial cases, where lyrics to rap and hip-hop songs are... Read full story
- The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that PhD graduate Britt Currie has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of philosophy at City Colleges of New York (CCNY). Currie is a philosophy of cognitive science and moral psychology. Her research focuses on the... Read full story
- An article co-written by philosophy professor Helga Varden, Jordan Pascoe, a former visiting scholar at Illinois, and Lara Scaglia was published in the Kantian Review.The article, titled Kant and Sexual Fantasy, builds on Kant’s idea of “free play of the imagination.” Varden, Pascoe, and... Read full story
Living Well Online
How should one live in the digital age? What is the internet doing to attention, education, relationships, and politics? The course pursues answers through studying classic texts in the philosophy of technology.
Philosophy of Literature: The Meaning of Life
Examine key issues surrounding the meaning of life via close readings of literary works by Camus, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Tolstoy, among many others. Explore themes that encompass subjective versus objective meaning, God, suffering, death, freedom, identity and alienation, happiness and morality, the present, culture, intimate others, and, finally, the course of a life.
Intro to Political Philosophy
Engage with selections from core texts and questions in political philosophy, tracing the philosophical tradition from Ancient Greece and the works of Plato and Aristotle to modern thinkers such as Hannah Arendt and John Rawls.
Philosophy of Mind
What is the relation between the mind and the body? Do we have free will? What makes you "you"? These are some of the questions we will investigate together in this class. This course is a survey of topics in the philosophy of mind and consciousness, theories of personal identity, and theories of free will.
Philosophy of Statistics
Consider philosophical issues related to statistics and statistical machinery. Reflect on the nature of the discipline of statistics, the notion of evidential support, the relationship between statistics and the problem of induction, and more.
Earn a certificate in the ethics of artificial intelligence
Employers are actively seeking employees who have experience grappling with the risks and ethical questions of artificial intelligence. The Ethics of AI Certificate teaches students the core skills and knowledge they need to understand how to mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence while harnessing its benefits.
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