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- Max Fan, a junior Philosophy + CS major, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which will provide three years of financial support for his graduate studies. Fan will graduate this May and begin his PhD at Cornell University in the fall. While at... Read full story Philosophy + CS undergraduate Max Fan awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that Ashli Anda has accepted an offer as a lecturer in the philosophy department at California Lutheran University. She will be teaching a class called Oppression and Liberation and will also teach Latin American philosophy. It’s been a goal of Anda... Read full story Ashli Anda accepts offer at California Lutheran University making her the fourth recent PhD to land an academic position
- An annual study of recent alumni reports 96% of philosophy and history majors (combined) who graduated during the most recent 2022-2023 period secured their first destination within six months of commencement. Looking more closely into this data 99% of philosophy majors secured a first destination... Read full story 99 percent of recent Illinois philosophy majors secure first destination
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Alumni Spotlight: Lally A. Gartel (Attorney)
Lally A. Gartel is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Litigation at Guaranteed Rate, Inc. She graduated from Illinois in 2009.
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Faculty Spotlight: Patrick R. Leland
Patrick R. Leland is a lecturer in philosophy, who specializes in early and late modern European philosophy, with a particular research focus on Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Much of his recent work focuses on Kant’s philosophy mind and—more specifically—on his accounts of concepts and mental representations.