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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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UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield honors six graduates for their unwavering commitment to excellence.

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

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LutumPotentia wins first place in business competition with their idea for making composting easier.

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’s 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 “The Second Sex” that “humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.”

Filosofie Magazine

There’s an intimacy in the way people experience borders,” says Amy Reed-Sandoval, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Borders help shape people’s 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’t 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’s feelings and her life story.”

Las Vegas Review-Journal En Español

Combining the education of children with that of future professionals is the perfect combination for the practice of UNLV 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

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented a paper, “When Spirit Came to the Comstock: the correspondence of Horatio Jones, Nevada’s first Philosopher," at the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, hosted by Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. 
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) and Michael Kagan (Law) published "As Jewish Nevadans, Tisha B'Av Calls Us to Remember. Recent Events Call Us to Act" in the Nevada Current.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy), Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville), and Avery Kolers (University of Tennessee) published "Double Binds of Reproductive Injustice: A Response to Kuczewski et al." in The American Journal of Bioethics.
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented on an author-meets-critics panel on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics as part of the "Non-Ideal Migration Ethics Workshop" and the 32nd World Congress of the International Association Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. Other…
Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation on her book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the Freie Universität 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.