About the Department
Announcements
- DESIGN CONTEST: As part of the “In Her Name” project, the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston is hosting an open poster design contest to honor the life & work of Phillis Wheatley Peters. The contest is open from December 1, 2022 to April 15, 2023. Designs (see handouts) may be returned to the Philosophy Department (W5-017) or to dana.miranda.edu. There will be prizes given to awarding designs.
- UMB Philosophy Club featured on APA Blog! Many thanks to Ex-president Sarah Lancaster and Prof Lande for spreading the word.
- Welcome to Alec Stubbs, the Applied Ethics center's new Post-Doctoral fellow for 2022-2024, who will be working on a project called "AI and The future of work". See more on his work here
- 2023 PIKSI Boston will happen this summer...
- Huge Congratulations to our graduates of both Summer and Fall 2022! We could not be more proud of you all after the what these last three years have thrown at you. A special shout out goes to our amazing JFK award winner and student speaker MG Xiong
The Philosophy Department at UMass Boston is pluralistic, with faculty that teach and pursue research in almost all major areas of philosophy, including Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics, Feminism, Philosophy of Race, Asian Philosophy, American Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy.
The department sees philosophy as an engaged discipline, one in which theoretical understanding is meant ultimately to make a difference in our practical lives as persons and citizens. Our department has a concentration of faculty working in ethics, applied ethics, law and political philosophy (Bromwich, Miranda, Perina, Rivera, Zurn), a concentration in American Philosophy, mind & language very broadly construed (Wanderer, Brincker, Levine, Millman), and one in the history of philosophy (Beresford, Inukai, Lande, Levine and Kaye).
The department also has a very active Philosophy Club that meets every Friday, while the philosophy outreach program (POP) and some events are temporarily on halt due to COVID.