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Department of Philosophy News

The Department of Philosophy offers students a balanced curriculum of courses in the history of philosophy and in the most recent philosophical theories. Philosophy applies reasoning and rigorous argumentation to questions central to human life: What is ethical? What is just? What is art? What is knowledge? What is real?

Current Philosophy News

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The Eileen McGarry Career Champion of the Year focuses on the 'how' and 'why' of career readiness.

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Kids and everyday people make the best philosophers, according to professor Amy Reed-Sandoval.

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Students examine what it means to live 'the good life.'

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News highlights starring 性视界传媒 students and faculty who made local and national headlines.

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性视界传媒 President Keith E. Whitfield honors six graduates for their unwavering commitment to excellence.

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Program includes workshops, activities to awaken participants鈥 inner 'warrior queens.'

Philosophy In The News

The Hill

Large numbers of U.S. Latinos are signing up for jobs in immigration enforcement. Roughly half of all U.S. Border Patrol agents self-identify as Latino, as do 30 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

Dozens of people gathered near Red Rock Sunday to rally against federal plans to round up wild horses and burros in Nevada. Protesters said the Bureau of Land Management is preparing to remove thousands of animals statewide between now and June, with particular concern for herds in the Spring Mountains. Advocates say this period overlaps with foaling season.

Climbing Magazine

Bill Ramsey got on rock before sport climbing existed. Now, he鈥檚 using the screaming barfies, discontinued climbing shoes, and more hacks to send 5.14 at age 65.

Salon

Simone de Beauvoir argued in her 1949 book 鈥淭he Second Sex鈥 that 鈥渉umanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.鈥

Filosofie Magazine

There鈥檚 an intimacy in the way people experience borders,鈥 says Amy Reed-Sandoval, an associate professor of philosophy at the 性视界传媒. 鈥淏orders help shape people鈥檚 identities . I once spoke to a woman who had traveled from Canada to New Mexico for an abortion. It was a horrible situation where the baby wouldn鈥檛 survive the birth. Because of the controversy surrounding abortion in the United States, she was afraid of being questioned at the border and sent back. She said afterward that the fear of the imaginary border agent had robbed her of the opportunity to grieve for her unborn child. The border changed this woman鈥檚 feelings and her life story.鈥

Las Vegas Review-Journal En Espa帽ol

Combining the education of children with that of future professionals is the perfect combination for the practice of 性视界传媒 philosophy students who have a joint preschool program on campus where they encourage children under 5 years old to do or think about big questions and interact with the world around them daily.

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Recent Philosophy Accomplishments

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universit盲t Berlin (in Berlin, Germany).
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Luvell Anderson (Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) co-presented their paper "African American Migration Ethics" at the 2026 Latin American Studies Association congress in Paris, France.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published an op-ed titled "The US Immigration Workforce is Overwhelmingly Latino. The Reasons Why Are Rooted in History" in The Hill.
Jesse Fitts' (Philosophy) paper, "ChatGPT Is Not Bullshit, nor Is It Not Not Bullshit," has been accepted for publication in Ethics and Information Technology.
Cheryl Abbate (Philosophy) was interviewed by Fox5 during a rally she co-organized in response to the current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups of Nevada's wild horses and burros.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Overturning Birthright Citizenship in a Post-Roe United States: A Specter of Dehumanization," in The Oxford Handbook of Grounded and Engaged Normative Theory, edited by Brooke A Ackerly, Luis Cabrera, Monique Deveaux, Fonna Forman, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Gina Starblanket, and鈥