News & Events

UPCOMING: Anjali Bauri (University of British Columbia) will be giving a talk at a Department of Philosophy Colloquium on Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:30PM in room C610 (University Hall). Her talk is entitled "Opposing Children: Adversarial Argumentation in Caregiver-Child Contexts". All are welcome!

February 21, 2025

UPCOMING: Nathan Fueher (University of Lethbridge) will be speaking at a Department of Philosophy Colloquium on Monday, March 3, 2025 at 5:00PM in room PE264. His talk is entitled "Rules: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them: On the Need to Prescribe an Overarching Telos for Virtue Argumentation Theory". All are welcome to attend!

February 16, 2025

Claire Lockard (Marquette University) will be giving a talk entitled "What’s Love Got to Do With It? Charity’s Etymology and Its Implications for Argumentation" on Friday, February 7 at 11:00AM. To attend the talk in person, come to the CTCE Lab, room B853 (University Hall). For Zoom, use this link.

February 3, 2025

The Philosophy and Logic Help Centre is back for another semester! It provides free, drop-in support from senior undergraduate students on understanding and developing philosophical arguments, logic, and essay writing. It runs until April 11, and is open from 12:00-2:00 PM in room B883 (University Hall). Be sure to drop by!

January 26, 2025

Catarina Dutilh Novaes (UV Amsterdam) will be presenting on "Against ‘Reason Supremacism’ in Democratic Politics" on Friday, January 10 at 1:00PM. On campus, you can attend in the CTCE Lab, B853 (University Hall). Email Kat Stevens (katharina.stevens@uleth.ca) for a Zoom link.

January 6, 2025

The new Critical Thinking & Citizen Engagement Lab at the University of Lethbridge has opened its doors! Directed by Kat Stevens and Susan Dieleman, the Lab is dedicated to research and instruction in critical thinking, argumentation, deliberation, and reasons-based decision-making. It will provide a hybrid in-person/online space for students, researchers, and community members to engage in the creation of knowledge about how we can thinking critically on our own and with others.

January 6, 2025

Kat Stevens (University of Lethbridge) will be giving a talk entitled "Making Norms for Better People: The Ideal Theory Problem of the Argumentative Opening Stage" on Tuesday, December 10 at 4:00PM in room SA8003, as part of the Psychology Seminar Series, presented by the Department of Psychology and the PSYENCE Publishing Society. The seminar will be held in-person or via Zoom (https://uleth.zoom.us/j/98491954190).

December 2, 2024

David Balcarras (University of Lethbridge) will be speaking at a Department of Philosophy Colloquium on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 4:30PM in room C610 (University Hall). His talk is entitled "Is Language Biological?". And all are welcome to attend!

November 25, 2024

Jodi Newman (PhD student) has won the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES). This is an external award that recognizes outstanding academic achievement of students pursuing graduate studies in Alberta. Congratulations!

October 7, 2024

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the appointment of David Balcarras (PhD, MIT) as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of linguistics, and metaphysics.

July 15, 2024

Andrew Tedder (PhD, UConn) will be giving a talk entitled "No Cause for Collapse" on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 4:00PM in room L1050, presented by the Department of Philosophy Colloquia Series. All are welcome.

April 29, 2024

Kent Peacock (University of Lethbridge) will be speaking on "My Last Lecture, and What Comes Next: Reflections on Wholes, Parts, and Perils" on Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 4:00PM in room M1060 (Markin Hall), presented by the Department of Philosophy Colloquia Series.

March 25, 2024

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to welcome Agnes Tam (University of Calgary) to the University of Lethbridge on Friday, March 1, 2024. At 5:30PM in SA8002 (Science Commons Building), she will deliver her F. E. L. Priestley Lecture "Toward an Ethics of Belonging", in conjunction with the Department's Undergraduate Student Conference.

February 26, 2024

Dr. Susan Dieleman has been named the University of Lethbridge's first Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership. Her new role at the University of Lethbridge will begin on July 1, 2023. Dr. Dieleman will be tasked with assisting the development of an innovative program of scholarship (teaching, research and experiential learning) that will expand knowledge and training for students, politicians, and public servants in the ethical practice of politics, fiduciary responsibility and democratic governance.

March 17, 2023