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Congratulations to our Major Cohan Council on completing his undergraduate degree with Disciplinary Honors in Philosophy. What a great achievement! His Honors Thesis is titled “Between Will and Action” was supervised by Dr. Heather Gert. If you’re a Major and would like to graduate with Disciplinary Honors, please get in… Continue reading…

Congratulations to our Majors Dominic Stanley and Callie Williamson on winning a 2025 Provost Student Excellence Award! This is the highest academic honor for undergraduate students at UNCG, recognizing excellence both in and out of the classroom.

Many thanks to Dr. Janine Jones for 25 years of service, Wade Maki for 20 years of service, Mike Matteson for 15 years of service, and Dr. Insa Lawler and Dr. Derek Skillings for 5 years of service.

“There are millions of people out there who appreciate the kind of philosophy we teach at UNCG,” says Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan. “I just have to get it out there.”
Kaplan grew up in New Jersey and lost his mother to the 9/11 attacks. She worked in the North Tower. He traces his passion for philosophy to hard questions he wrestled with in the days and long nights afterward.
Now he reaches others who have philosophical questions of their own. And his reach extends beyond the classrooms of Curry Building.

Congratulations to Dr. Derek Skillings on being the lead investigator on a new $600,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation for the project “The Emergence and Evolution of Goal-Directed Behavior in Collective Entities.” This is the largest grant ever received by someone in the Philosophy Department at UNCG. Experts in… Continue reading…

Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan on having over half a million followers for his YouTube channel about philosophy.Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@profjeffreykaplan

Congratulations to Dr. Insa Lawler who became an Honors Faculty Fellow. These fellows are faculty members who have taught several Honors courses/sections or have supervised a substantial number of Honors course contracts for the UNCG Lloyd International Honors College.