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The Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington is hiring a new faculty member! Our department is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community. We encourage applications from individuals whose background and interests align with this commitment. Members of groups traditionally underrepresented in our field, including women and people of color, are strongly encouraged to apply.
Assistant Professor (area of specialization in Philosophy of Science, area of concentration… Read more
UW Philosophy Associate Professor Carina Fourie has been awarded a grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work on her book manuscript, Securing Health Equity. In the book, under advance contract from Oxford University Press, Carina evaluates which frameworks of social justice should be used in public health to guide how to improve population health, reduce health inequities, and pursue health sciences research ethically. Carina will argue that we need a conception of… 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.
The UW Department of Philosophy offers our sympathy regarding the death of Professor Emerita Lynn Hankinson Nelson in summer 2024.
Lynn specialized in feminist philosophy, philosophy of biology, and Quine. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Temple University in 1987. Before joining the University of Washington, she worked at the University of Missouri, and over her career, she held visiting appointments at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, Arizona State University (… Read more
"The Supreme Court’s decision that grants presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for their 'official acts' has been met by alarm by many legal scholars," writes Michael Blake, professor of philosophy and of public policy and governance at the UW.Featured
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We held our departmental awards ceremony on May 30, 2024. Congratulations to all our honorees!
Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award: Andre Ye
Outstanding Graduating Senior Awards: Jesscia Li, Rhea Shinde
Graduate Student Choice Award: Rhea Shinde
Kenneth Clatterbaugh Scholarship: Fevet Ibrahim
Kenneth R. Parker Award for Excellence in Community Service: Jason Cappelloni
Thomas Hankins Prize in History & Philosophy of Science: Jesscia Li
Service Award: Madeline Lewis Potter… Read more
The Department of Philosophy, in conjunction with the School of Public Health, holds a symposium every two years on “Race, Health, and Justice.” Historical and contemporary racism drives the health inequities between Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) on the one hand, and white people, on the other. The event, part of the Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposia in Medical Ethics, aims to identify the ways in which racism impacts health and to assess measures that should be taken to push back… Read more
Our faculty members are – across the board -- incredibly engaged and productive. Below, we highlight just a few notable products from each faculty member’s activities over the past academic year.
Professor Michael Blake published eight new articles, including “Voluntary and Involuntary Migrants: On Migration, Safe Third Countries, and the Collective Unfreedom of the Proletariat,” 37(4) Ethics and International Affairs (2024) 427-451, and he has four new public facing pieces in The… Read more
Last year the department saw four graduate students complete their PhDs and move on to prestigious postdoctoral positions!
Cody Dout “Understanding White Superagency” (chair: Michael Blake); now postdoc at Rutgers University
Kayla Mehl “Fat – Therefore, Unhealthy? Oppressing Fat People in the Name of Health” (chair: Sara Goering); now postdoc at Johns Hopkins University
Arthur Obst “Wilderness for Wildness: Saving the Wild in a Post-Natural World” (chair: Stephen Gardiner); now postdoc at… Read more