Matthew Hanser, PhD | Department Chair

The Department of Philosophy welcomes Matthew Hanser, Ph.D. (Professor of Ancient Philosophy) as the incoming Departmental Chair for the 2009-20010 academic year!


D
epartmental 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 Undergraduate Philosophy 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

 

 


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Course Schedule Information

Summer 2009 Office Hours

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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