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Department of Philosophy
Recent News
In Memoriam: Larry Sklar
Emeritus Faculty | 1938-2024
James Joyce Elected as an AAAS Fellow
Congratulations Professor Joyce!
Welcome to the Department of Philosophy
Michigan has ranked among the top five philosophy doctoral programs nationally and top six departments internationally in assessments spanning five decades, with strengths in all the main areas of philosophy — ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language & mind, philosophy of science, and aesthetics — and in the history of Western philosophy, from antiquity to the present. We encourage interdisciplinary work, to take advantage of the University’s great strength across fields, and offer courses of special interest to students in Art and Design, Classical Studies, Economics, History, Law, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and Women’s Studies. The Department traces its origins to 1843, when a professorship of moral intellectual sciences was first occupied, and has included many illustrious faculty, such as John Dewey and Charles Stevenson, since then.
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Programs
Events
Mar
18
KIS Lecture: Gabbrielle Johnson
Knowledge, Information, and Society | Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop
2:00 PM
2306
Mason Hall
Mar
28
MMP Lecture: Antonia Peacocke (Stanford)
Mental Action and Mental Means
3:00 PM
3206
Mason Hall
Apr
11
RIW Colloquium: Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)
3:00 PM
2306
Mason Hall
