Philosophy Faculty News Archive

Dr. Colby Clark joins WSU this Fall as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in environmental philosophy and environmental ethics. Click for more about Dr. Clark.

With topics ranging from Wittgenstein and Mach, metrology and analogy, to the role of the fabulous in the history of science, click here to read a bit more about her latest work.

The John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award is given each year to a full-time faculty member in the humanities or social sciences divisions of Fairmount College. This peer recognition award acknowledges a professor whose teaching is outstanding, who has had an impact on the lives and career choices of students and who has the ability to enliven teaching and enrich the understanding of students. Congratulations, Dr. Lu!

After a decade in the WSU Department of Philosophy, Dr. Brian Hepburn is retiring at the end of the Spring 2025 semester. While at WSU Dr. Hepburn's teaching and research focused on engineering ethics and the history and philosophy of the physical sciences. He has been the department Undergraduate Coordinator since 2020, received the Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award in 2024, and served as interim department chair in the absolute worst semester, Spring 2020. Please join us in wishing Dr. Hepburn all the best in his next adventure.

Philosophers are people, too! Read about Dr. Bondy's musical side.

Interested in free will, moral agency, and determinism?  Check out Dr. Hill's paper "Strawsonian Hard Determinism" in the Journal of Philosophy.

As part of Newman University's Emerging Technology: Promises and Perils conference April 11-12, Dr. Castro will be speaking about "Medical Integrity, Algorithmic Intimacy, and Organoid AI". Register by April 4! This is a free event, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Philosophy has all the drama you could want: faith, fear, and death!  Coming soon in the journal Analysis: "Why People Who Believe in God Fear Death" by our own Dr. Scott Hill.

On March 28 at 1pm in Lindquist 326, Dr. Castro will discuss philosophy of medicine and AI as part of the panel "History and Philosophy of Health".

Dr. Bondy's new chapter "Informal Logic" forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers a concise overview of the informal logic movement.