Displaying items by tag: Department of Philosophy
March 12, 2020
Amanda Keller: Distinguished Young Alumni Award 2020
This award honors alumni ages 40 or younger for significant accomplishments in industry and/or their career field or for service in the College.
Dr. Gregory Pence, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, has been named the 2019 winner of the Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction.
October 17, 2017
Nine Departments Welcome New Faculty Members
This fall, new faculty members join the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Criminal Justice, the Department of English, the Department of Music, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Social Work, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Theatre.
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Amanda Keller is the director of the Magic City Acceptance Center, an AIDS Outreach program designed to provide a safe and supportive space for LBGTQ youth.
July 24, 2017
Faculty Spotlight: Kevin McCain, Associate Professor
Since he graduated with a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Rochester in 2012, Kevin McCain has been on a tear.
Celeste Fong, a senior majoring in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, writes about her experiences in the program and at UAB.
January 04, 2017
Metaphysics Capstone Course: Think About the Big Questions
Does your possible identical twin exist? If a clay statue is on the table and nothing else is on the table, are there three things on the table — the statue, the lump of clay of which it is made, and the clay in the statue? Are the past, present, and future real? Is space a big container? Are numbers real things that do not exist in space or time? Is there any moment at which all of you exists?
Consider these questions and others in PHL 408-2D: Capstone. The class is taught by Dr. Marjorie Price and is held T/TH 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Prerequisites: two previous philosophy courses.
Consider these questions and others in PHL 408-2D: Capstone. The class is taught by Dr. Marjorie Price and is held T/TH 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. Prerequisites: two previous philosophy courses.
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Isabella Mak of Dothan and Eli Ussery of Columbus, Georgia, have been named Mr. and Ms. UAB, and Lakshmi Subramani of Madison and Daniel Alejandro Mendoza of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were named first alternates.
October 14, 2016
Flight School: Students Chart New Courses for Drones
UAB students are inventing new uses for unmanned aerial vehicles—UAVs or drones—employing them to reveal nature’s secrets and even save lives.
October 07, 2016
2016 Mr. & Ms. UAB Finalists
Nine of the 2016 Mr. & Ms. UAB Scholarship Competition finalists are students in College of Arts and Sciences departments and programs including Biology, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Social Work.
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Sophomores Kevin Lee and Daniel Mendoza will study abroad at the American University in Dubai this summer.
April 13, 2016
Cloning Article Selected as Editor's Choice
Human cloning is a hotly debated topic in ethics, covered even in movies and television shows like Orphan Black. Little attention has been paid to emotional reactions to this issue, which could shed light on why human cloning is so contested.
March 30, 2016
Can You Own a Cloned Human? Expert Explores This and Other Bioethical Issues in New Book Based on Hit Sci-fi Show “Orphan Black”
Gregory Pence, Ph.D., international expert on the ethics of human cloning, discusses the science behind the hit TV show, when it gets the science right and when it doesn’t.
March 17, 2016
UAB Clinton Scholars 2016
Ten of the 21 UAB students representing the university at the Clinton Global Initiative University are in College of Arts and Sciences fields of study including biology, chemistry, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, and psychology.
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The Department of Philosophy will host the latest of their Big Idea series and The Great Debate in November.
October 14, 2015
Philosophy Alumna Serves the LGBTQ Community
Six years ago, UAB philosophy alumna Amanda Keller started volunteering daily with Birmingham AIDS Outreach (BAO). Today, she is the Director of LGBTQ Programs at BAO and is working to better educate and care for the community.
September 28, 2015
Review: Kevin McCain's "Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification"
Philosophy professor Kevin McCain’s book, Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification, has been given a positive review in the journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
A growing number of researchers, from computer scientists to philosophers, are taking an interest in the "artificial artificial intelligence" offered by Amazon's microwork platform.
August 06, 2015
UAB Senior Wins William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship
Elora Robbani, a senior philosophy major in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the William Jefferson Clinton Scholarship to study at American University in Dubai this fall.
June 05, 2015
Will Your Self-driving Car Be Programmed to Kill You?
The computer brains inside autonomous vehicles will be fast enough to make life-or-death decisions. But should they? A member of UAB’s national championship-winning Bioethics Bowl team — and the team’s coach, a renowned bioethicist — weigh in on a thorny problem of the dawning robot age.
