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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…

Abrazos Film Presentation with Q and A with director Luis Argueta

ABRAZOS will be shown on January 26th at 5pm in the Holman Room.

A Great Fit at University of Arizona

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…

Writing Fellow Publishes on Immigration

Wheaton-Emerson Writing Fellow Claudia Ward-de Leon’s short story “Outside the KFC” was published in the literary journal Bird’s Thumb this fall.

A Metaphilosophical Collaboration

Prentice Professor of Philosophy, Nancy Kendrick, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College and Wheaton alumna, Jessica Gordon-Roth ’04, have co-written an essay on…