The Ethics Track is for UAB students who are interested in focusing on moral questions and reasoning in their time as an undergraduate and after graduation. It serves as a specific way to tailor the ...

A humanities degree for a STEM world. This concentration prepares students to write and reason in a world increasingly driven by computers and data, as well as understand the ethical implications of ...

Many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) center on the question of how the technology can impact the future and shape our world. In addition to considering the possible future benefits, ...

The department is proud to offer a robust speaker series that brings in philosophers from across the world to speak to students and faculty through the semester. The Q&A portions of these colloquia ...

Philosophy majors are a favorite punching bag for university critics—including past, Floridian Republican presidential candidates. In the early 2010s, there were annually about 7,800 philosophy ...

Students from CIEBA College Preparatory Academy celebrating after the event. Photo credit: Jay Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz’s Center for Public Philosophy (CPP) is a one-of-a-kind ...

Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. So when the field really started expanding ...

Last time, we discussed head transplants and how philosophers are gearing up to address the ethical implications. Many pages and scholarly brain waves were spent in the Journal of Medicine and ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

Best known for his work in bioethics and his role as one of the intellectual founders of the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, at Princeton ...

Bing Shuo graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in Philosophy. He is primarily interested in some topics in philosophy of language, metaphysics and philosophy of science. Outside of philosophy, he ...

Serving as the Gadamer Visiting Professor at Boston College during Boston's arduous, record-breaking winter of 2015 did nothing to dissuade Dermot Moran from his desire to return to the University.