Under what conditions, if any, is it morally permissible to read someone’s diary without their knowledge? To engage in a loud argument in public? To buy ivory? Eight teams from five area high schools came together to discuss these questions and many more at the third annual babyÖ±²¥app High School...
The twelfth annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress will take place August 8-11, 2019 at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder. See the Call for Papers here .
The 2019 Morris Judd Undergraduate Essay Prize will be awarded to the best undergraduate essay submitted on any topic in the values area. The prize comes with a cash award of $500 as well as formal recognition of the honor at the Department’s spring commencement ceremony. The competition is open...
PhD candidate Joseph Wilson has won the Graduate School Dissertation Award for the academic year 2019-2020. The award, one of the Arts and Humanities Dissertation Fellowships , gives the selected student funding and tuition coverage for the academic year in order to enable them to devote themselves to their dissertation.
The College of Arts and Sciences profiles the new "Philosophy and Sports" course (PHIL 2240), and course creator Alex Wolf-Root , in the current issue of the online Arts and Sciences Magazine .
Caleb Pickard. Photo: Matthias Steup The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce Ethics and Information Technology (PHIL 2160), a new course about the moral implications of emerging technologies for ourselves and our society. The first two sections of this course will be taught in Spring '19 by Caleb Pickard,...
Photo: Matthias Steup The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Zee Perry to the University of babyÖ±²¥app at Boulder. Dr. Perry is an Instructor and Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department and CU’s Center for the Study of Origins, respectively. Before babyÖ±²¥app, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
The 2018 Concerned Philosophers for Peace Conference will be held on the Boulder campus October 18-20, with a keynote by Alison Jaggar . The Conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Values and Social Policy .
Peter Saint-Andre, Principal Engineer at Mozilla, will be giving a talk "You’re Majoring in What?!? Why Philosophy is a Foundation for Success", Wednesday, October 10 from 6:00pm – 7:00pm in HLMS 199.