The Department of Philosophy welcomes Matthew Hanser, Ph.D. (Professor of Ancient Philosophy) as the incoming Departmental Chair for the 2009-20010 academic year!
Departmental Announcements
Our Department is pleased to announce that Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr., Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University, will be joining us from March 2-6, 2009, to give a series of lectures and seminars as this year's Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
The UndergraduatePhilosophy Club and Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Sociey for Philosophy, will meet every Tuesday at 7:30pm, in the Department of Philosophy's Student Lounge, South Hall 5617. For more information contact Austin Andrews at austinandrews@umail.ucsb.edu
The list of speakers for the 2008-2009 Colloquia series and Graduate Student Colloquia series is now available. Unless otherwise indicated, all colloquia talks will begin at 4:00pm in South Hall 5617. Click here for more details.
Oct. 17, Michael Gill (University of Arizona), "Moral Conflict and
Moral Pluralism"
Oct. 24, Jason Stanley (Rutgers University, New Brunswick), "Knowing (How)"
Nov. 21, George Wilson (University of Southern California), "Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On the Coen Brother's 'The Man Who Wasn't There'"
May 1, Paul Boghossian (New York University), "Relativism: Old and New"
May 15, Ned Block (New York University), "Ways of Perceiving"
May 22, Sherrilyn Roush (University of California, Berkeley), "Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction"
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