The Department of Philosophy

The Philosophy department offers a major and a minor at the undergraduate level. In addition, the department has a graduate program offering a Ph.D. The Philosophy department houses the PNP (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology) Program at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The department's research strengths lie in Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Cognitive Science, as well as the History of Philosophy...Learn More

Philosophy Colloquium, Emily Fletcher, University of Toronto, "Hedonism and the Choice of Lives in Plato's Philebus"
Feb 02 2012
4:15 pm
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HPS Series, P. Kyle Stanford, Professor, Dept. of Logic & Phil. of Sci., UC, Irvine, "Bush's Nightmare: Changing Incentives and the Closing of the Scientific Mind"
Feb 08 2012
12:00 pm
Life Sciences 202
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PNP Colloquium, Kyle Sanford, "The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: Evolution and the 'Hard Problem' of Moral Psychology."
Feb 09 2012
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Philosophy Colloquium, Ian McCready-Flora, Columbia University, "Belief and Rational Cognition in Aristotle: Response and Restraint."
Feb 10 2012
4:15 pm
Wilson Hall, rm. 214
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SLAPSA (St Louis Area Philosophy of Science Association) event, Feb. 25th, SIUE campus.
January 2012
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Mark Rollins will present Teaching Gallery exhibition at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
January 2012
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Ron Mallon (Director, PNP) will co-direct an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers in Summer 2012 on "Experimental Philosophy."
November 2011
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Kit Wellman will co-direct a Summer NEH Seminar @ Washington University:
November 2011
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One of the leading journals in Philosophy, Nous, has accepted Santiago Amaya's article "Slips" for publication.
June 2011
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New! Philosophy of Science Major and Minor

These programs are designed for science majors to reinforce their scientific training with knowledge of the conceptual, historical, and philosophical foundations of science...Learn More