Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Can Borders Be Feminist?" at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal, Canada. 

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) has received Fulbright Western Hemisphere Regional Travel Program Grant to Canada. She will spend two weeks as a Researcher in Residence at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique (Center for Research on Ethics) in Montreal. 

Congratulations to the following Department of Philosohpy students for their accomplishments:   Outstanding Graduating Philosophy Major – Michael Lehavi Academic Excellence Graduating Major – Eric Anderson; Cameron Farella; Michael Lehavi; and Samson Whetstone William James Essay Contest – winner Emmanuel Yirdaw, for "…

James Woodbridge (Philosophy) published (with Bradley Armour-Garb), "Answering the Conceptual Challenge: Three Strategies for Deflationists" in the journal Synthese.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) received a small grant from the Marc Sanders Foundation to support research and writing in public philosophy.

Maurice Finocchiaro (Emeritus, Philosophy) has just given approval to The Commercial Press Ltd. in China to publish a Chinese translation of a 40-page chapter from one of his books. The chapter is titled, “Mosca’s Political Science: Democratic Elitism and Balanced Pluralism,” from the book Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Dr. Curtis Boyd: A Lifetime at the Borders of Abortion's Legality" in Ms. Magazine.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Las pastorelas escolares y la diversidad religiosa en México" in LA Times En Español.

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) just published, "Taking Peirce's Graphs Seriously," in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. The work is a critical review of Logic of the Future, a multi-volume compilation of Charles Sanders Peirce's writings on logical graphs and notation.

Today the London Indie Short Festival announced  that the winner for the Best Documentary Short category went to the interdisciplinary project known as The UNLV Shoah Survivors Project. Congratulations to all of the film's collaborators!  About the film The UNLV College of Liberal Arts religious studies program and UNLV…

UNLV students enrolled in assistant professor Cheryl Abbate's (Philosophy) courses "Animals and Philosophy" (Honors) and "Animal Ethics" (PHIL 277) raised $1700 for the Poppy Foundation (a Las Vegas cat rescue) during the "Thrifting for Animals" event held December 5. The classes are especially grateful to the philosophy department for paying…

C.E. Abbate's (Philosophy) work was highlighted in the University of Colorado's Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine. The article, titled "Ethicist zeros in on ‘the hard problems of animal rights'," discusses Abbate's academic research on animal ethics and her service-learning courses.