News | Department of Philosophy

Left to right: David Whittingham, Anna O’Sullivan, and Param Upadhyaya

Success at the National Championship: Our Ethics Bowl Team Excels

Highlights from the National Championship Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on February 24-25 in Cincinnati

When Philosophers Become Therapists

Prof. Lydia Amir featured in "The New Yorker"

Daniel Dennett’s Been Thinking About Thinking—and AI

The longtime philosophy professor recounts his eventful life in a new book, celebrates evolution, and issues a warning about what’s really dangerous about AI

The Connected Corpus

Professor Christiana Olfert creates website, "The Connected Corpus", as a living collection of annotated digital texts

Profile in Inspiration: Mark Lannigan, A23

Mark Lannigan, A23, has brought his political science and philosophy education to his political work at the Massachusetts State House

Tufts Ethics Bowl Team is back at it again

The Tufts Ethics Bowl team was selected to compete in the inaugural International Tertiary Ethics Bowl/Ethics Olympiad

Tufts Ethics Bowl team finishes 2nd at APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl

The national competition was held in Portland, OR on March 4-5, 2023

The Ethics Bowl gave the incarcerated students “an opportunity to look at difficult problems through different perspectives, to realize that their perspective might not be the only reasonable perspective to think about something from,” said Susan Russinoff.

Learning Ethics in Prison

As part of the Tufts Prison Initiative, a philosophy teacher and her students held an Ethics Bowl with incarcerated students.

Tufts’ Master of Philosophy program promotes philosophical passion, community

A group of master's students are pictured at a symposium sponsored by the Tufts Department of Philosophy on Sept. 16.