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Peabody Hall
Statement in Support of AAPI Students, Staff, and Faculty

The Department of Philosophy endorses the recent statement from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences regarding the recent Atlanta shootings. We express our support for, and solidarity with, Asian and Asian-American staff, students and faculty as well as our commitment to equity, inclusiveness and respect: The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences expresses support for, and solidarity with, our Asian and Asian-American students, staff, and…
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Peabody from Law School
Minor in Law, Ethics, & Philosophy Announced

The Department of Philosophy is excited to announce a new minor in Law, Ethics, and Philosophy in partnership with the UGA School of Law. This course of study gives undergraduate students an enhanced opportunity to achieve a deeper understanding of legal and ethical modes of thinking and increase their familiarity with philosophical concepts and arguments used in these fields. "We're really excited to offer this new major which …
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Grow It Know It
Philosophy for Children Service Learning Course Announced

The Department of Philosophy has launched the new course, Philosophy for Children (PHIL 3900S) for the Spring 2021 semester. Developed and taught by PhD student Michael Lindquist in partnership with the UGA Office of Service Learning, twenty-one students are enrolled this semester. The course allows UGA students an opportunity to to fulfill UGA’s experiential learning requirement by engaging with with K-12 students via teen…
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Beth Preston
Beth Preston Retires

Longtime Department of Philosophy Professor Beth Preston has retired after 30 years of service to the University of Georgia. Preston joined the Department in 1990 and served as Interim Head from 2017-2019, she was a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence from 1990-2004 and an affiliate of the Center for Integrated Conservation Research since 2014. "Dr Preston is a world-renowned researcher, a superb teacher, and was a…
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Winfield Democracy Unchained
Fall 2020 Faculty News

Professor Yuri Balashov presented "Multiple Lives in Relativistic Spacetime?" at the 8th Annual California Metaphysics Conference, University of Southern California in January 2020 and published a paper, "Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence" in Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy (Routledge, 2020). He also completed a second discipline study in Linguistics and is actively working on a…
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Chris Cuomo
Cuomo Receives Inaugural Davion Award

Victoria Davion   UGA professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Chris Cuomo is the recipient of the inaugural Victoria Davion Award for Intersectionality in Environmental Ethics to be presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. The award is in honor of Victoria Davion, the first woman appointed head of the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy, a position which she held from…
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Susan Schneider
Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series

The Fall 2020 Scott & Heather Kleiner Lecture Series will be presented online. This page will be updated as details of these lectures arise. Please check in regularly on our Events page for more information about presenters and abstracts for each upcoming lecture.   September 10, 2020 - 3:30pm Christopher J. Preston, University of Montana-Missoula  "Rewilding in a Synthetic Age: Some Links and Some Lessons"  …
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William T. Blackstone
William T. Blackstone Scholarship Announced

The Department of Philosophy announces the William T. Blackstone Honors Philosophy Scholarship, an annual award of $1500 to be awarded in the Spring semester of each academic year. Honors students who have demonstrated overall academic excellence and a strong interest in philosophy are eligible to apply.  This scholarship honors the memory of William T. Blackstone who served as the Head of the Department of Philosophy…
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double dawgs
Become a Philosophy Double Dawg

The Department of Philosophy is proud to participate in the University of Georgia's Double Dawgs program. Enthusiastic philosophy students can now earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years or less. Through this popular program, motivated students can save time and money as they move forward toward postgraduate success. “The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to be able to offer this new Double Dawgs…
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Ethics & the Environment 25th anniversary
Ethics & the Environment Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Ethics & the Environment celebrates 25 years of editorship at the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy. This biannual peer-review journal of environmental philosophy was founded in 1995 by UGA professor and ecofeminist scholar Victoria Davion and has steadily grown to international recognition as one of the premier journals in the field.   Upon Davion’s untimely passing in 2017, Associate Professor Piers H.G. Stephens assumed…
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