Our department is one of the fastest-growing and fastest-rising departments in the country. With a backbone of strength in analytic metaphysics & epistemology, philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy (including Continental), we support strong research groups in cognitive science (including AI), philosophy of religion, and social & political philosophy.

 Awards 

Podcasts & Radio:

Dan Frank: Daniel Frank Lecture: Wisdom, Piety, and Superhuman Virtue

Dan Kelly: Individual Choices, Challenges, and Social Changes

Dan Kelly: Somebody Should Do Something

Dan Kelly: DISGUST: Why it's both a necessity and a problem

Sarah Robins: Being Human Now - Memory

YouTube:

Jamin Asay: Determinate Content #2 – Jamin Asay on Creeping Minimalism and Truth-Making

Dan Frank: The Concept of Rationality in Judaism

Dan Kelly: Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

Dan Kelly: HRP Lab with Dan Kelly, October 15, 2025: "Somebody Should Do Something"

Dan Kelly: Somebody Should Do Something (Part 1) New book by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Dan Kelly)

Presentations:

Upcoming: 

Eamon Duede: Jan 12-15, 2026; 8th International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP)

Past: 

Eamon Duede: KeyNote Speaker; "Collective Abductin and the Future of Science" -  International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation 2025

Eamon Duede: "Collective Creativity in the Mixed-Agent Science" - Artificial Intelligence and Collective Agency 2025

Eamon Duede: "Automating Mixed-Agent Science: Considering Cases from Mathematics" - Computational Methods in Science: Implications, Limitations, and Promises, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2025

Eamon Duede: "Philosophy and AI - New and Open Problems" -  Humanistic AI: Reimagining Humanistic Pursuits in the Age of Generated Media, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago, Chicago 2025

Eamon Duede: “Tail Novelty, Knowledge Collapse, and Useful Frictions in Science,” Computer Science Seminar Series, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 2025

Eamon Duede: “AI and the New Boundaries of Scientific Creativity,” Modern Fiction Studies Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2025

Eamon Duede: "Automating Mixed-Agent Science: Considering Cases from Mathematics,” AI and the Epistemic Essentials of Science, a closed panel at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Seattle, USA, 2025

Eamon Duede: “AI Evaluation in Science: Philosophical Considerations,” Measuring AI in the World, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, USA, 2025

Eamon Duede: “Social Abduction and Artificial Intelligence,” Why the Data Revolution Needs Qualitative Methods, University of Bremen, Bremen, DE, 2025

Eamon Duede: Panelist: “AI and the Boundaries of Business,” Cornerstone for Business Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2025 

Dan Frank: Some Thoughts on Charity and Justice in the Jewish Tradition