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What if Cities Looked a Little More Like Farms?

Upon graduating from college, will I be able get a job in New York City, joining a tide of business-suited execs on their morning commute,…

Professor Lectures at Amherst College

Hispanic Studies Professor Francisco Fernandez de Alba invited lecture at Amherst College

This Is What We Look Like

Jessica Gordon-Roth, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Lehman and Wheaton alumna ’03, has started a campaign to “change the way we think about women…

The Epistemology of Debunking Arguments

The Philosophy Department hosted the final colloquium of the semester on Thursday, Mar. 26, 5-6:30, Knapton 214.

Professor Kendrick’s Prize-winning Essay on Berkeley

Professor Kendrick’s essay, “The ‘Empty Amusement’ of Willing: Berkeley on Agent Causation,” has won the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize. The prize…

Does Happiness Make For a Good Life?

Several Wheaton philosophers pondered this question recently at Brown University, where Daniel Haybron gave a talk with that question as its title on Friday, March…

Flash Seminar on Consent

Associate Professor Stephen Mathis offered a Flash Seminar sponsored by the Education Council of SGA last Wednesday, March 4th. It was entitled “Comparing Affirmative Consent…

The Philosophy of Pain

Professor Brendan O’Sullivan (Stonehill College) presented a paper entitled “Where Does It Hurt? Tensions in Our Concept of Pain” as part of the Philosophy Department’s…

Annual International Women’s Day Luncheon and Talk

Entitled Moving Beyond Slaves, Sinners, and Saviors: The Politics of Sex Trafficking, featuring Carrie Baker

Philosophy Majors earn more than Accounting Majors

A recent report shows that at mid career, philosophy majors earn more than accounting majors.

How Judges Reason

Associate Professor Stephen Mathis is profiled in the Wheaton Quarterly (Winter 2015). “Almost as long as I’ve been teaching the course, I’ve had at least…

Be Employable, Study Philosophy

So says Shannon Rupp, a Vancouver journalist. Some excerpts: “In anticipation of fall course schedules, several people have asked what I think someone who wants…