Welcome to the Department of Philosophy!

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS

Registering for Spring 2025 courses? For enrollment forms, instructions, contacts, go to:

REGISTRATION & ADVISING (MU DOMAIN)

And check out new options to take a Philosophy major with a concentration, as well as the updated and expanded list of Philosophy electives in the MCC Discovery tier!

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On Friday November 15th, Richard C. Taylor, Professor in the Marquette Philosophy Department, was awarded the Aquinas Medal for Excellence In Christian Philosophy by the International Étienne Gilson Society. The award was for the work he has done to promote Christian Philosophy through his own research and through his leadership in the Aquinas and ’the Arabs’ International Working Group. The award ceremony took place in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. See the full story on Marquette Today. 

Read the interview with Professor Taylor about the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group just published in IPMMonthly! Read the article here.

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Recently featured on the Wisconsin Humanities podcast, Human Powered: Philosophy's own Theresa Tobin and the Education Preparedness Program (EPP)! Listen to it here!

And visit the EPP website for more information about this impactful program, including upcoming opportunities to apply for a blended course yourself! 

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Dr. Ericka Tucker recently published an article Limiting the Political Imagination: Spinoza’s Prohibition of Novelty in the Political Treatise. She will be giving a symposium talk at the North American Spinoza Society Meeting at University of South Carolina in May of 2025. The talk is titled “Epistemic Democracy and Spinoza’s Political Epistemology.”

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