This year’s Richard Peltz Memorial Award for Excellence in Philosophy essay scholarship ceremony took place in Curtin Hall, Room 607 on May 10th. Congratulations to John Muller and Sydney Maxwell for award-winning essays!… Continue Reading »

Associate Professor Blain Neufeld argues that adults and children have a right to free time in a recent essay in the London School of Economics and Political Science’s The Forum.… Continue Reading »

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Miren Boehm has been awarded a Fellowship at the Center for 21st Studies for 2018-19.… Continue Reading »

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that we will be joined by two new Assistant Professors of Philosophy fall 2018: Rachel Goodman (PhD, University of Chicago), Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, and Peter van Elswyk (ABD, Rutgers University), Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Linguistics.… Continue Reading »

Margaret Atherton has delivered the Dewey Lecture at the Central Division Meeting of the APA early this month. Please see a report on the lecture by clicking on the link below.… Continue Reading »

We, the undersigned faculty of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, unequivocally condemn the immigration and travel ban issued by President Trump on March 6, 2017 and express our strong support of our students, alumni and applicants to our programs affected by it.… Continue Reading »

Blain Neufeld has been honored with a 2016 UWM Foundation Research Award.… Continue Reading »

The Certificate in Ethics, Values, and Society (CEVS) is an academic program for undergraduates to explore questions about ethics, politics, and social justice across topics and subject areas.… Continue Reading »

Blain Neufeld has been awarded a Global Studies Research Fellowship from the Center for International Education for 2016-2017! He plans to write a number of papers on the topic of ‘free and equal citizenship in diverse societies.’… Continue Reading »

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Luca Ferrero is one of a group of philosophers who comprises the “Immortality Project.” The Project involves asking questions about the life we live, and pondering the concept of living forever… and whether we would even want to.… Continue Reading »