Our graduate students are actively engaged both within the academy and beyond. Keep up with news of their activities and achievements, and get to know their perspectives on various philosophical issues in this News & Blog feed. To request a news announcement or submit a blog post proposal, current students and alumni should contact the graduate adviser (philgpa@uw.edu).
Graduate Student News & Blog
We made it to the summer! I hope that you are able to enjoy a somewhat slower pace in the coming months, with time to reflect and revel in the lengthy days of summer. If you’re looking for reading recommendations, check out our faculty summer reading list.
This has been a challenging year on campus, with grant terminations, international student visa revocations, significant budget cuts and… Read more
We are proud to announce, that third year graduate student Kai Milanovich was awarded the 2025 Nancy Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award, which recognizes creative achievements of an emerging scholar doing work in feminist theory, for their paper "Distinguishing Situated Knowledge and Standpoint Theory: Defending the Achievement Thesis." The paper was recently accepted for publication in Hypatia.
Huge congratulations to Kai!
The Department of Philosophy celebrated the achievements of our students and faculty at our annual awards ceremony. We had an in-person celebration in Savery Hall June 5th, 2025, and were thrilled to celebrate our award winners’ accomplishments together. Our heartfelt tradition of sharing personal anecdotes about each recipient continued, to the delight of family, friends, and classmates.
We are proud of the accomplishments of all our department members and look forward to seeing what… Read more
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.
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Huge congratulations to graduate student Erica Bigelow, who won a 2025 Philosophy in Media fellowship from the Marc Sanders Foundation for a summer workshop on podcasting!
https://marcsandersfoundation.org/philosophy-in-media-2025/… Read more
UW Philosophy PhD candidate Aaron Barker will spend the 2024-2025 academic year as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany. Aaron, whose dissertation project focuses on Schopenhauer’s moral psychology, will be working with Dr. Matthias Koßler, director of the Schopenhauer-Gessellschaft in Mainz. Read further details here.
What a year it’s been. The campus was filled with political activity, including encampments protesting the war in Gaza and a graduate student ASE strike. The Department of Philosophy held its first Town Hall meeting on issues of climate and communication, and undertook an extensive graduate program review. This newsletter contains information on many events from the year, but let me highlight just a few of them:
New faculty
This year, the UW Department of Philosophy welcomed two new faculty… Read more
Philosopher Arthur Obst, a UW doctoral student, thinks that wild places can thrive — if we adjust our definition of wilderness and embrace the idea of letting go. Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News
Arthur Obst was interviewed on the Common Caws for Sustainability podcast about his dissertation work on wildness and ecological humility, as part of their series on environmental ethics. This podcast, based out of UW Bothell, focuses on sustainability efforts by UW faculty, students, and staff. Arthur was interviewed by Ben Hauge.
Linds Whittaker's open-access project tracking philosophy graduate programs has been featured in The Daily Nous. Whittaker tracks admissions requirements and deadlines for over 100 philosophy graduate programs in multiple countries, providing the information publicly via Google Docs.