Department News

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The Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo shares news about faculty scholarship, research activity and departmental highlights throughout the year. This page features updates that reflect the intellectual life of the department and its connections to the broader philosophy community.

New AI degrees taking off
2/18/26
UB students majoring in AI-focused degree programs are enthusiastic about their job prospects in the burgeoning new field.
UB's PPE program receives $4 million DOE grant to promote civil discourse
2/18/26
The initiative wlll help students cultivate the virtues, skills and norms essential to productive civic dialogue and community engagement.
UB receives $500,000 Mellon grant
2/18/26
The Philosophy, Politics and Economics progran will use the funding to analyze the effect of immigration on local democratic norms.
UB is part of joint $17 million NIH grant to study temporomandibular disorders
2/25/26
Dental medicine, medicine and philosophy professors collaborate on multi-institution project.
UB to offer a fully online graduate degree in ontology
2/18/26
The MS degree will prepare students from around the world for work in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary branch of information science.
Justin Bruner and Ryan Muldoon Publish Paper on Changing Social Norms
2/18/26
A new paper by two University at Buffalo philosophers argues that lasting shifts might be achieved by redirecting the effort to change away from the troublesome norms themselves and towards the mental frameworks supporting them.

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Faculty publications

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