Wheaton Blog

The philosophy department and philosophy majors in the classes of 2009 & 2010 invite new and prospective majors and minors to the student and faculty…

Robert Carry Osborne’s (’11) article Time and Consciousness: A Phenomenological View, has been accepted for publication by the journal Episteme.

Sherri Conklin ’10 will begin graduate studies in the Fall at the University of Edinburgh. She was recently awarded two departmental prizes and a fellowship.

Chris Howard (philosophy major, Wheaton class of 2009), gave a lecture on Kantian ethics to Phil 111 Ethics students. Howard is in the Masters program…

Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, Harvard University, gave a talk called “Meditation, Cartesian Style.” A dinner in PDR I and II with Professor Simmons followed.

Professor of Philosophy Andrew Pessin, Connecticut College, gave a talk on his two recently published books: The God Question: What Famous Thinkers From Plato to…

The Jane Ruby lecture, “Loving the Nation: Patriotism, Good and Bad” was given by Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics…

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Keota Fields from UMass-Dartmouth gave a talk to philosophy students and faculty called “The Role of Predication in Berkeley’s Immaterialism”.