News and Events

Hannah Arendt Circle

Loyola University Chicago and the University of Chicago are co-hosting the 18th Hannah Arendt Circle, which will take place March 13-15. All events will take place on Loyola's Lakeshore Campus. To register online or view the program please visit www.thearendtcircle.com Please contact thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com with any questions.

View Program

First Annual Big Questions Lecture

Please join us on Thursday January 30 for the 1st Annual Big Questions Lecture! The lecture will take place at 5:30pm in Regis MPR, 6340 N Winthrop Ave.

This year our speaker is Dr. Jeff Fisher, who will be exploring the topic "How Should One Live?" There will be free pizza and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!

View Poster

History of Philosophy Roundtable Spring 2025 Meetings

February 28 - Jason Stephens (Loyola University Chicago): "Socrates Against the Polymath: Labor, Freedom, and Dependency in the Rival Lovers"

March 28 - Peter Hartman (Loyola University Chicago): "Why Modes? 14th Century Debates about Ontological Commitment and Laws of Nature"

April 15 - Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton): "Hating Hate: Margaret Cavendish on Passion, Pain, and Disorder"

View Flyer

Congratulations, Ethics Bowl Team!

On Saturday, November 16, Loyola's Ethics Bowl team competed at the Upper Midwest Regional Ethics Bowl at the University of Chicago. Loyola's team finished in the top 4 out of 20 teams and earned a bid to the national competition. The National Ethics Bowl Competition will be held February 20-23 in Norfolk, Virginia where Loyola will compete against 31 other winning teams from around the country.

For more information about Ethics Bowl, please contact Dr. Jennifer Parks at jparks1@luc.edu

LEAVS Talk: Dr. Jay Carlson

The Loyola Ethics and Values Symposia warmly welcomes Loyola alum Dr. Jay Carlson from Lake Forest College. On Friday, November 22 Dr. Carlson will give a talk titled "Organizational Virtue Ethics and Moral Distress Among Healthcare Workers." The event will be held from 3 pm to 5 pm in Cuneo Hall, Room 318. This event is free to attend and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!

View Flyer

Philosophy Colloquium: Dr. Anton Ford

Please join us for a Philosophy Colloquium on Thursday, November 14! We are delighted to welcome Dr. Anton Ford from the University of Chicago, who will give a talk entitled "The Question What To Do". This event will be held from 4:00pm to 6:00pm in Cuneo 311. It is free to attend, and all are welcome to join.

This event is sponsored by Loyola's Department of Philosophy.

View Flyer

Spring 2025 Course Offerings

Information about the Philosophy Department's Spring 2025 courses is now available. A number of Philosophy courses fulfill the the Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements for Philosophical Knowledge and Inquiry.

Course descriptions for the Spring 2025 semester, as well as previous semesters can be located at the Undergraduate Course Offerings page.

View Spring 2025 Courses Flyer

PRG Talk: Dr. Mérédith Laferté-Coutu

The Loyola Phenomenology Research Group is pleased to welcome Dr. Mérédith Laferté-Coutu from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. On Friday, October 25, Dr. Laferté-Coutu will give a talk entitled "Taking the Land for Granted: A Phenomenological Account of Settler Subjectivity and Affective Responses to Indigenous Presence in Canada and the U.S."

The talk will take place from 3:00pm to 5:00pm on the 4th Floor of the Information Commons. A reception will follow in the lobby outside of the Philosophy Department on the third floor of the Crown Center. We hope to see you there!

View Flyer

6th Annual Philosophy Faculty Debate

Please join us on Tuesday, October 15 for the 6th Annual Philosophy Faculty Debate! The debate will take place at 6pm in Cuneo 210.

This year's topic is "Should We Maintain Civility in Political Discourse?", which will be debated by Dr. David Ingram and Dr. Brandon Morgan-Olsen. There will be free pizza and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!

View Poster

History of Philosophy Roundtable Fall 2024 Meetings

On September 27, Dr. Lucas Angioni (UNICAMP) will give a talk entitled "Full responsiveness to the targeted explanandum (or what unifies Aristotle's Posterior Analytics)". A reception will follow in the Crown Center Third Floor lobby.

On November 8, Marissa Venturi (LUC) will give a talk entitled "Quantification, Due Measure, and The Craftsmanly: Teasing out the Unity of the Four Kinds in Plato's Philebus".

View Flyer

HOPR Talk: Dr. Lucas Angioni

The Chicago Consortium in Ancient Philosophy Speaker Series presents "Full responsiveness to the targeted explanandum (or what unifies Aristotle's Posterior Analytics)", by Dr. Lucas Angioni (UNICAMP). The talk will be held on Friday, September 27 from 3:30pm-5:30pm on the Fourth Floor of the Information Commons. A reception will follow in the Crown Center Third Floor lobby. Please join us!

This event is sponsored by the History of Philosophy Roundtable. For more information please contact Dr. Joshua Mendelsohn, jmendelsohn@luc.edu

View Flyer

PRG Event: Husserl Workshop

The Loyola Phenomenology Research Group is hosting a workshop to discuss recent work on Edmund Husserl. The workshop event will take place Friday, September 13th, on the 4th floor of the Information Commons between 9:55am and 3:30pm.

View Flyer

Philosophy Undergraduate Reception

Please join us on Wednesday, September 4 from 4:15pm to 5:45pm for the Philosophy Undergraduate Reception. The reception will be held in the Crown Center Second Floor Lobby and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!

View Poster

Congratulations, Dr. Mendelsohn!

The Philosophy Department is thrilled to announce that Dr. Joshua Mendelsohn's paper, entitled "Aristotle's Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand" (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy), has been named one of the ten best articles published in philosophy in 2023 by Philosopher's Annual. Congratulations, Dr. Mendelsohn! The paper will be included in volume 43 of the journal, which will be published online soon.

Medieval Theories of Consciousness Conference

Medieval scholastic philosophers at the universities of Paris and Oxford from 1200 to 1350 engaged in complex discussions of the nature of conscious experience. This conference aims to connect these insights and arguments from medieval texts to current philosophical discussions on consciousness.

The conference will take place August 19-21 at the Water Tower Campus and on Zoom. For more information please contact the conference organizers at medievalconsciousness2024@gmail.com

View Flyer