L&S News  Tag: Philosophy

The streaming universe can be overwhelming. L&S faculty members offer a guide to finding the good stuff.

Students in the L&S annual public lecture course on the Wisconsin Idea discover that the history of UW-Madison’s signature philosophy is more complicated than they realized — and its future potential even brighter.

The Journal reviews the philosophy professors' latest book, "When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People."

Our ability to agree on a shared sense of what is true—based on a set of facts—seems like it’s never been quite so damaged. UW experts across multiple disciplines are researching the problem—and they see plenty of reasons for hope.

The research of Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy Michael G. Titelbaum centers on rationality, primarily as it comes up in epistemology (the theory of knowledge).

UW's Philosophy Department connects with the community.

HaoYang (Carl) Jiang has made astounding progress toward “The American Dream.” His journey, though, has been arduous. An immigrant from China at age 5, Jiang found himself alone and homeless as an adolescent. Public education and the support of friends and teachers saved him, he says, putting him on a path that led to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy.

The influence of Lloyd Barbee LLB’56, a civil rights leader and lawyer in the 1960s and ’70s, lives on through Justice for All: Selected Writings of Lloyd A. Barbee, which was edited by Barbee’s daughter and civil rights lawyer Daphne Barbee-Wooten ’75. The book includes a foreword by Wisconsin congresswoman Gwen Moore of Milwaukee, who describes Barbee’s lasting impact on the state and the nation.

Philosophy professor Paula Gottlieb has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to write a book about ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.