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The peak of summer has passed, and many students are slowly turning their minds to the upcoming school year. As back to school specials start hitting stores, many prospective students are hitting the books for graduate school entrance exams or poring over their scores from spring tests.

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Philosophy Departmental Newsletter

2014 Newsletter CoverRead the Fall 2014 Philosophy Departmental Newsletter to find out about the exciting things going on in the UAB Department of Philosophy!

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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.

Philosophy Department is Looking for Adjunct Faculty

Philosophy is looking for adjunct faculty to teach Bioethics and Practical Reasoning. If interested, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Upcoming Events in Fall 2014

Rebecca GordonDr. Rebecca Gordon,  Department of Philosophy and Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good, University of San Francisco (Founder of Californians for Justice and author of Mainstreaming Torture, Oxford University Press, 2014) will speak on "Why Torture (Still) Matters" on Thursday, October 2nd, in the Spencer Honors House.





Dalai-Lama 2014The Dalai Lama visits Birmingham and UAB on October 24-26th and talk about secular ethics, tranquility, and world peace. The UAB Philosophy Department looks forward to his visit.

Big Idea Talks by the Philosophy Department

The UAB Philosophy Department will lead public discussions on life's big questions.

2014-2015 Schedule
                         The-Thinker      100                                                      
Who? What? When?       Where?

Dr. Matt King
  "Why We're All Terrible People"
  September 18
  At 6 p.m.
      Spencers Honors House
Dr. Gregory Pence   "Is it Wrong to Live to a Hundred?"    November 13
  At 6 p.m.		       Spencers Honors House

For each discussion a member of the UAB philosophy department will start things off with a 15-minute presentation of the discussion topic. Afterward, we will have an open discussion of the topic for 45-60 minutes.

Please come and share your thoughts on these topics! Everyone is welcome to come to any or all discussions. If you have any questions, please contact: Dr. Kevin McCain (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

Kevin McCain Publishes Epistemology Book with Routledge

McCain Book 2014
Dr. Kevin McCain has published an epistemology book with Routledge only 2 years after getting his PhD.

UAB professor leading the charge in ethical conversations

david morrow sDavid Morrow, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham assistant professor of philosophy, is among only a handful of experts leading the national conversation about the ethics of geoengineering, the large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system to counteract climate change.

Morrow has made it his mission to inform people designing relevant institutions that any decisions regarding geoengineering should reflect ethical consideration. He recently co-wrote an opinion paper titled "Research Ethics and Geoengineering," which appeared in the "Geoengineering Our Climate? Working Paper and Opinion Article Series." It is part of one of the first series of papers dedicated to exploring the ethics, politics and governance of this provocative new issue. In it, Morrow and his colleagues addressed three principles they feel must be considered when making plans for field studies related to this area: respect, justice and minimization.

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