Professor Lewis Gordon has been featured in the PBS documentary “Family Recipe: Jewish American Style.” Congratulations, Professor Gordon!
Lewis Gordon: 30th Anniversary Edition of ” Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism” Published
The 30th Anniversary Edition of Professor Lewis Gordon’s Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, with a Foreword by the eminent South African philosopher Mabogo P. More and Afterwords by Jacqueline M. Martinez (President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association) and the eminent Antiguan philosopher and sociologist Paget Henry, was published on December 11, 2025. The Philosophy Department […]
Lewis Gordon: To Deliver Lecture at the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Lewis Gordon will deliver the Eleventh Balvant Parekh Memorial Lecture at the Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences next week. The lecture is titled, “A Phenomenology of Human Science, Metaphysics, and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence.” More information is available in the attached poster. The Philosophy department wishes […]
Margaret Gilbert: Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of California, Irvine
The Philosophy Department would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to Margaret Gilbert; Professor Emerita of Philosophy at UConn, she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCI. Congratulations Professor Gilbert!
Lynne Tirrell: Quoted in The Guardian
On Saturday, December 6th, Lynne Tirrell was quoted in an article published in The Guardian titled, “From ‘criminals’ to ‘garbage’, Trump is Ramping Up Anti-Immigrant Language”. The Philosophy Department extends our congratulations!
Lewis Gordon: Featured in Viennese Jewish Museum Exhibit
The Viennese Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum Wien) has an exhibit based on Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Lewis Gordon’s article “Rarely Kosher,” which focuses on “What color are Jews?”. Find more information on the Viennese Jewish Museum website. Prof. Gordon also wrote a special essay for the catalogue, entitled “Eine Schwarz-jüdische Reflexion über die Hautfarbe von Juden” […]
Lewis Gordon: To Give “African Studies Review” Distinguished Lecture at Annual ASA Meeting
This month, at the 68th annual African Studies Association meeting, Lewis Gordon will deliver the African Studies Review distinguished lecture. The title of Prof. Gordon’s lecture is “Fanon’s African Dream.” Find more information on ASA’s website, and in the attached photo. Congratulations, Professor Gordon!
Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Delivered Keynote at UNESCO Conference Encuentro de Cátedras UNESCO de América Latina y el Caribe 2025
This past October, Nelson Maldonado-Torres was the keynote speaker at the UNESCO Conference Encuentro de Cátedras UNESCO de América Latina y el Caribe 2025! The meeting hosted, among a large number of scholars, UNESCO Chairs across all of Latin America. We extend our congratulations!
Spring 2026 Graduate Courses
Spring 2026 PHIL 5320: Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Aristotle. Charlotte Duffee, Tuesdays 11:30 am -2:00 pm Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a foundational text in the history of moral philosophy, and an intimate knowledge of it is essential for understanding later ethical views. This course will focus on Aristotle’s seminal work as well as […]
Tom Meagher Featured in “South African Journal of Philosophy”; Edited by Sarah Setlaelo
Tom Meagher, one of our PhD alumni, has the leading piece in the recent special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy, which focuses on the thought of the major living South African Philosopher, Mabogo Percy More. The issue is edited by Dr. Sarah Setlaelo (recently a South African Fellow at Harvard), who will […]