Former Chair and Professor Noell Birondo's edited collection "The Moral Psychology of Hate" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) was recently awarded Choice magazine's award for 2022 Outstanding Academic Title. Congratulations, Prof. Birondo!
Professor Patrick Bondy was recently awarded a University Research/Creative Projects Award (URCA) in support of his project "Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Disagreement, Skepticism, and Relativism." Congratulations, Professor Bondy!
Professor Boyle (College of Charleston) will be the Philosophy Department's Spring 2023 Distinguished Lecturer in the History of Philosophy. Boyle's research focuses on women philosophers in history of early modern and modern philosophy. She is author of Innate Ideas (Continuum, 2009) and The Well-Ordered University: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish (Oxford University Press, 2018). Check back in late 2022 or early 2023 for the date and time of Professor Boyle's lecture.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy Susan Castro was featured in a recent article of The Sunflower.
WSU Philosophy alumnus, Navy Lieutenant Commander, and Naval Academy Cyber Science Professor Joseph Hatfield recently published a paper entitled "Intelligence under Democracy and Authoritarianism: A Philosophical Analysis" in the journal Intelligence and National Security.
Professor Robert Feleppa, who has been a member of WSU's Philosophy Department since 1980, retired following the Spring 2022 semester, and was granted Emeritus status.
Professor Patrick Bondy will deliver a Zoom lecture entitled "Can Rational Persuasion be Epistemically Paternalistic?" on April 8 at 2:00pm for the University of Windsor's Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric.
Dr. Robins (University of Kansas) will provide two lectures as part of the Department of Philosophy's Distinguished Lecture series. Dr. Robins will give two talks. On April 7th she will give a talk entitled "The Memory Trace in Philosophy and Neuroscience" and on April 8th she will give a talk entitled "Why Philosophy Matters for the Mind-Brain Sciences". The April 7th talk will take place at 3:30pm in RSC 142. The April 8th talk will take place at 3:30 pm in CH 200. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Dr. Radebaugh's talk, 鈥淐hamplain Tower Collapse in Surfside Florida, 2021: The Canary in the Coal Mine?鈥� will be delivered at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m on March 9 at Ahlberg Hall (Room 201). He will discuss the conundrum faced by the engineers who were charged with determining whether the building was safe or not. The event is free and open to the public.
WSU Philosophy Professor Susan Sterrett will deliver an invited keynote address at the 9th International Symposium on Scale Modeling.
Alumni News
Zohreh Dalirian has been admitted to the Doctoral program in Education at Southeastern
University (2021).
returned to his roots in the WSU Philosophy department to give talks on the philosophical significance and implications of the blockchain technology used
in cryptocurrencies for Internet 3.0, and a philosophical analysis of state intelligence
in democratic and authoritarian systems (2021).
is a civic engagement manager at the Kansas Leadership Center (2021).
is now enrolled in the PhD program in Philosophy at UCLA with 7 years of funding.
She's studying Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Logic (2021).
finished his masters at York University and is now getting his PhD in Philosophy
at the University of British Columbia. He's studying Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science and Philosophy of Medicine (2020).
is finishing his dissertation for a PhD in Communications at the Annenberg School
of Communications, USC (2020).
Curt Gridley and Tracy Hoover founded , a creative concept to market maker space in 麻豆破解版's Old Town Opportunity Zone
(2019).
Alumni Spotlight
Class of 2014
Education:
麻豆破解版 State University, Political Science and Philosophy double major (2014)
UC Berkley Law School (2016)
Previous Employment:
U.S. Army Reserve
Associate Attorney, DLA Piper LLP.
Current Job Title:
Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles CA
