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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Chris Howard ’08 wrote recently with an update on his progress toward the Ph.D. at University of Arizona. He’s visited or presented work at the…