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The department offers a variety of opportunities for students to get involved, including PhiRe Club, Phi Sigma Tau, Ethics Bowl, and the Feminist Union. There are also links below for philosophy, religious studies, and student research.

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Philosophy Resources for Undergrads:

Undergraduate Research Funding with Schedler Honors College

Fall 2025

In Fall 2025, undergraduate philosophy major Nick Padilla will be working with Dr. Sharon Mason to develop a new undergraduate textbook for 17th and 18 century European philosophy (also called Early Modern Philosophy). Since 2018, Dr. Mason has been developing course resources that address the gap between current scholarship and available introductory textbooks for this course. After having presented her research at the APA Central in 2020, published two sections on the professional blog for the American Philosophical Association in 2022, and her acceptance to a prestigious NEH Institute in Summer 2022 on the topic, Dr. Mason will be taking almost 200 pages of typed notes she has written for her students over the past 8 years and turning them into a textbook that is available for widespread use. Nick will be working on organization and correct formatting of references, developing study questions for students, and giving a valuable student perspective on the effectiveness of various sections of the textbook as they develop. The assistantship is made possible by funding through the recently-developed Honors Undergraduate Research Assistant program.

Posted in: News on September 14, 2025

AI, Robotics, and Ethics Camp @ UCA

AI, Robotics, & Ethics Camp (2025)

The role of ethics in AI and robotics is growing rapidly, and the real experts are often in the humanities, as well as the science fields! Dr. Jesse Butler, Professor of UCA Philosophy and Religious Studies, co-led the AI, Robotics, and Ethics camp again this summer. He is seen leading a discussion with students (above).
 Alec Brewer, a Philosophy and English major, and Kaylee Moeri, a Philosophy and Psychology major, served as camp counselors.

Alec talks with camp attendees

Kaylee times participants on her phone

Dr. Will Slaton, Professor and Engineering Physics Coordinator, directs the AI, Robotics & Ethics Camp, and Assistant Professor Lin Zhang of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (bottom right), co-taught the camp. Hosted by the UCA College of Science and Engineering, the one-week program “provides students with hands-on learning opportunities in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics with an emphasis on the moral and ethical dimension of this technology. The camp is fully funded by the Arkansas Department of Education’s Academic Enrichment for Gifted/Talented in Summer (AEGIS) program. During the week, the students learned programming and hardware skills to build and test machine learning algorithms to train and autonomously test-drive a robot car.” The week culminated in a competition where teams built an AI powered self-driving car while considering the philosophical, ethical, and moral issues that come with this technology.
Posted in: News on September 14, 2025

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Graduates!

Posted in: News on May 8, 2025