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If you have yet to declare a first major, consider choosing philosophy. The Department of Philosophy at UAB offers a wide range of philosophy courses for you to explore and you will find many areas of ...

“If I could choose one book to bring with me to a desert island, … it would absolutely be Plato’s ‘Republic.’ … I teach it every year, and I still discover new and exciting things, it still makes me ...

The department is proud to offer a robust speaker series that brings in philosophers from across the world to speak to students and faculty through the semester. The Q&A portions of these colloquia ...

Because of the broadly interdisciplinary nature of Philosophy, many Philosophy classes can be taken to satisfy the General Education requirements for the College of Arts & Sciences. PHIL 1400: ...

It began with a postcard. Avery Maudlin had been considering attending college in the Northeast, inspired by his mother and two uncles who moved from Puerto Rico to go to school in this part of the ...

Reading about the closures of several philosophy departments has me worried that our centuries-old experiment of liberal arts education is ending. The United States has been trying to transform ...

Two undergrads are determined to break the philosophical glass ceiling. In response to an underrepresentation of women in the University’s philosophy department, third-year philosophy majors Julie Huh ...