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- 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
- An essay written by recent CS + Philosophy graduate Jonah Black titled “A Stoic Case for the Land Ethic,” was featured in Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal. In his essay, Black “aims to show the intersection of... Read full story
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Maggie Wave (University Administration)
Maggie Wave is the Senior Regional Director at Washington University in St. Louis. She graduated from the University of Illinois in 2012 with degrees in Philosophy and Political Science.
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
Professor Erlenbusch-Anderson is a critical theorist whose work is situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy (with an emphasis on political philosophy and contemporary European philosophy), history, and conflict/terrorism studies. She is one of the most talented political theorists of her generation, and she holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science. Her primary research focus is the development of a philosophically rigorous and empirically grounded account of terrorism useful for contemporary analysis. She is working on a book titled ...