Welcome to the Department of Philosophy
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Philosophy is located in Helen C. White Hall, right on the shore of beautiful Lake Mendota and at the heart of the university campus. Its faculty carries on a long and proud tradition of highly acclaimed teaching and research in core areas of philosophy—especially in the philosophy of science and ethics, but also in metaphysics, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. The Department attracts over a hundred undergraduate majors, and its outstanding Ph.D. program boasts a record of placing its graduates in the some of best departments in the country. Along with its colloquium program, the department also regularly hosts conferences and is the home of the annual Metaethics Workshop.
Department News
- Assistant Professor Search Underway The department has been approved to recruit for an assistant professor, tenure track position. The Position Vacancy Listing is at the following link: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_062847.html
- Congratulations to Jaime Ahlberg, who has been awarded a Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation entitled "Ideal and Nonideal Theory in the Realm of the Political.
- Congratulations to Professor Dan Hausman on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and to Professor Claudia Card on her election to Vice President (and thus President-in-waiting) of the APA Central Division.
- "What is the Mind?" Symposium, April 29, 2010
- Fall 2009 Colloquium Series
- 2010 Philosophy of Biology Workshop
- 2009 Metaethics Workshop