Philosophy Departmental Newsletter
Read the Spring 2015 Philosophy Newsletter to find out about the exciting things going on in the UAB Department of Philosophy!
Previous Newsletters:
Fall 2014 Philosophy Newsletter
Fall 2012 Philosophy Newsletter
Some students, alumni, and even faculty from the Philosophy Department have written op-ed essays that have been published in al.com. These op-eds can be found in Philosophy Op-Ed Essays.
Upcoming Talks in 2015
Are you interested in attending talks given by the Philosophy Department faculty? Click here to see a list of upcoming talks in 2015.
New UAB Philosophers Making a Splash
Kevin McCain published Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification with Routledge, is co-writing A Critical Introduction to Justification, and with Oxford University Press, is co-editing Best Explanations: New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation. He also lectured in Pensacola, Memphis and Georgia. Josh May lectured on ethics and moral psychology in Hungary, Australia, Washington, DC, Mississippi, New York, and South Carolina and published in several journals, including the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. Matt King published in Philosophical Studies and European Journal of Philosophy, presented at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress and the Alabama Philosophical Society, and spoke at Ole Miss and Yale Law School. Newly tenured Marshall Abrams talked at the American Philosophical Association in 2014, at associations for philosophy of science, formal philosophy, and anthropology, and published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, and in a volume on environments and organisms
Famous Philosophers
Did you know there are many famous people who majored in philosophy? Click here to find out who they are and more!
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