UMaine Department of Philosophy

08/28/2026

Convocation 2026!

08/27/2026

The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its 2026 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize. They are: Felipe De Brigard, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology & Neuroscience, a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and Pri...

08/26/2026

08/24/2026

Coming up this semester.

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

From the NFL to philosophy: Dr. Mike DeVito tackles life's toughest questions at UMaine.

Details:

ORONO, Maine -- Mike DeVito waited until the second-down play was over, dropped to the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium and grabbed his leg.

08/06/2026

New issue 175 OUT NOW! Explore: https://philosophynow.org/

This issue has a theme of Continental philosophy.

"As there is more than one way to skin a cat, so there is also more than one way to dissect modernity," writes Rick Lewis in his Editorial.

This issue brings together an assortment of “Continentals” doing just that: Adorno takes on hustle culture; Foucault makes an unlikely case for classical liberalism; Ernst Jünger explores quiet rebellion; and Deleuze & Guattari provide some conceptual tricks for your next party.

Elsewhere, our authors ask what makes a war just, where boredom comes from, whether humanity needs a 1,000-year plan, and what relational quantum theory might tell us about reality. We've even got a philosophical review of the recent adaptation of Wuthering Heights! And much more.

Finally, we zoom in on Simone Weil, who offers a radically different way of thinking about animal suffering – one that does not require non-human beings to qualify as “persons” before we care about them.

No cats were harmed in the making of this issue.

Read the Editorial, “Mental Continental”:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/175/Mental_Continental?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pn_mental_continental&utm_content=new_issue

07/05/2026

“One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other.” That’s a line from an article published in the New York Times today about the demand for philosophers working on artificial intelligence. It continues: A.I. presents a fresh way for p...

07/05/2026

"As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead."

"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.