University of California, Santa Barbara | Department of Philosophy

Announcements

We our pleased to welcome five new graduate students this year:
Morgan Bennett, Christopher Cloos, Brian Looper, Corey McGrath, and Jenna Schaal-O'Connor.
Congratulations to Prof. Tony Brueckner for the publication of his new book Essays on Skepticism.
Congratulations to Prof. Aaron Zimmerman for the publication of his new book Moral Epistemology.
Congratulations to Prof. Thomas Holden for the publication of his new
book Spectres of False Divinity: Hume's Moral Atheism.
Congratulations to Prof. Chris McMahon for the publication of his new book Reasonable Disagreement: A Theory of Political Morality.
The Undergraduate Philosophy Club and Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Sociey for Philosophy, will meet every Tuesday this quarter at 4:00pm in South Hall 5617. For additional details, please join the Facebook group "UCSB Philosophy Club."

In mid-2009, the College of Letters and Science launched a redesigned
web page with a new URL: www.college.ucsb.edu. The site is designed for several different audiences, including current and prospective students, alumni, and faculty and staff. It includes feature stories about faculty and students, which are updated periodically, and links to current news stories about faculty research, which are updated several times a week, and also archived.

UCSB Philosophy News & Events

Important!
See below for updated information regarding the relocation of staff advising & support for the Philosophy Department.

Course Information

Proposed Courses for 2012-2013 Academic Year
Fall 2012 course schedule
Summer 2012 course schedule
Archives: S'12, W'12, F'11, M'11, S'11, W'11, F'10, S'10, W'10, F'09, M'09.

Office Hours

Faculty office hours. Please check back for updates.
Graduate Student office hours. Please check back for updates.

Friday, May 18th, 4:00PM
South Hall 5617
Hans Donald Muller
"Adam Smith vs. David Hume on the Nature of Sympathy"

2011-2012 Colloquia Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia events begin at 4:00pm in South Hall 5617

Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh): September 23rd

Gila Sher (UCSD): October 21st, "Composite Correspondence"

Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge): October 28th, "Injury, injustice, and the involuntary: Plato's theory in the Laws"

Peter Ludlow (Northwestern): Nov 4th, "Linguistic Rules and Individual Norms"

Igal Kvart (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Dec 2nd

Jeff McMahan (Rutgers): Jan 23-27

John Mikhail (Georgetown): Thursday, Feb 2rd (5 PM)

John Bigelow (Monash University): March 9th, "Time Travel is Logically Impossible"

Ray Monk: Tuesday, April 3rd, 4:00pm, SH 5617, "'How can I be a logician before I'm a human being?' The life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein"

Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center): April 20th, "Moral Sentimentalism: An Empirical Defense"

Kenny Easwaran (USC): April 27th, "Dr Truthlove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bayesian Probability"

Sharon Lloyd (USC): May 11th, "Hobbesian Just War Theory"

Hans Donald Muller (American University of Beirut): May 18th, "Adam Smith vs. David Hume on the Nature of Sympathy"

The Sage Center for the Study of the Mind also has regular talks from fellows, as well as a special guest lecture series throughout the academic year.

*Update on administrative changes for Philosophy*

Support services will be available at the new South Hall Administrative Support Center:

Student Services, South Hall 3432 x7488 (Undergraduate/Graduate Advising)
Academic Services, South Hall 3431 x7489 (Personnel, Financial, ESL Program)

Please visit the following link for up-to-date South Hall Administrative Support Center Contact Info.