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
From a re-examination of the nations public servants to a wonderful collection of novels, this year’s summer book recommendations by the philosophy faculty offer choices for everyone to ponder in the hammock. Check out the books our faculty members recommend or are planning to read this summer. We hope you find some great picks to add to your reading list!
Colin Marshall: … Read more
Congratulations to all our 2025 graduates!
Our alumni speaker was Miriam Korngold, Therapist for A Mental Health Space and Attorney for Korngold Law, a 2009 UW Philosophy grad. Our undergraduate speaker was Zoe Bailey Stylianides.
Good luck with all your future endeavors. The department can't wait to see what you all achieve.
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
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!
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
Congratulations to philosophy undergraduate major Griffin Hehmeyer, who was selected for the 2025 Husky 100!
You can view Griffin's contribution, along with the rest of the list here: https://www.washington.edu/husky100/?mkt_tok=NTI3LUFIUi0yNjUAAAGZ9
Andre Ye, UW senior in Philosophy & Computer Science and Robinson Center student, has been selected for the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship!
The Soros Fellowship this year recognizes “30 exceptional immigrants and children of immigrants chosen from a record-breaking 2,600+ applicants nationwide. The Fellows, who will receive up to $90,000 toward their graduate studies, represent the remarkable contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants across fields like medicine, law,… Read more
The University of Washington Department of Philosophy greatly benefited from the wisdom, service, and generous contributions of Dan Gerler, a longstanding Advisory Board member and general champion of philosophy. We all mourn the loss of Dan, who died April 15, 2024, from pancreatic cancer.
Dan Gerler was a UW student of philosophy and psychology who, after graduating, was suddenly thrust into running his father’s two Red Wing Shoes franchises after his father suffered a stroke. Dan expanded… Read more
We write to share the sad news that David Keyt, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle, died January 31, 2025. Professor Keyt received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Kenyon College and his doctorate from Cornell in 1955. He was an institution unto himself at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he made his academic home from 1957 until his retirement in 2013. For over fifty years, he taught courses in logic and ancient Greek philosophy, and… Read more