Department Year-in-Review: 2022-2023
CSU Philosophy faculty hosted a record-breaking number of public lectures, deepened campus partnerships, practiced innovative teaching, and engaged in nonstop research this year.
NEH grant will help build new Center for Engaged Humanities
As part of the $500,000 NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, the college must raise approximately $1.5 million in matching funds for the project within the next five years.
Liberal Arts and Health
In 2022-23, CSU embarked on a thematic year of health. From artists to sociologists, our faculty explored issues of health.
Happiness class hooks students on more than a feeling
Part of a series exploring humanity’s most enduring questions, the class looks at the concept of happiness through multiple lenses.
Welcoming Collin Rice, philosopher of biology
Collin Rice joins the department this year as our new philosopher of science with a specialty in philosophy of biology. Rice holds a BA from Simpson College where he majored in Physics and Philosophy and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Missouri. Before coming to CSU, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral […]
Department Year-in-Review: 2021-2022
Farewells Colorado State University is celebrating the life and legacy of the late Bernie Rollin, a beloved University Distinguished Professor who passed away last year at the age of 78 after a 50+ year career at CSU. The university is hosting a memorial service for Bernie on Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 3-5 p.m. in the […]
Congrats to the Class of 2022!
Meet our 2022 Graduates! Brady Knott Brady Knott graduates with a concentration in global philosophies and religions, as well a double major in History and a minor in Legal Studies. He plans to serve as a Catholic missionary after graduation. Brady finds religion very interesting and studying it as a philosophy student offered him a […]
Philosophy + Medicine: Two alumni discover the prescription for a successful career
Ethical questions in the medical field have challenged practitioners since the age of Aristotle. With the focus and training in applied ethics, alumni Eli Weber and Gwendy Reyes-Illg use their graduate philosophy education in their careers as a bioethics director for Kaiser Permanente and a practicing veterinarian.
Environmental Humanities and Summer Session: Explore the world at 9,000 feet, where the mountains are your classroom
This summer, the College of Liberal Arts is excited to offer a 9-credit opportunity for undergraduate students to study the environmental humanities during Summer Session at CSU’s Mountain Campus.
First semester reflection with Doug Finn, Visiting Willette Professor
Visiting professor Doug Finn, Ph.D. joined the CSU community and the Department of Philosophy in August 2021 as a result of a gift from Fr. Don Willette to establish an endowed faculty position for Catholic studies. We checked in with Finn on his first semester of teaching at CSU.