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Congrats to Eric Yang!

Eric Yang (UCSB PhD, 2013) has been tenured at Santa Clara University. Congratulations!

Congratulations to David Mokriski!

Congrats to David Mokriski on successfully defending his dissertation, "On the Appeal to Naturalness in Metaphilosophy".

Congratulations to UCSB Ethics Bowl!

The UCSB Ethics Bowl team of Jaze Wharton, Varun Iyer, Sofia Lyon, Katie Stamm-Kirk, and Shay Guerrero won California Regional Ethics Bowl Competition against Stanford. (You can watch here.) Congraulations!

Congrats to David Mokriski!

Congrats to David Mokriski! His paper "Conciliatory Metaontology, Permissive Ontology, and Nature's Joints" has been accepted for publication in Synthese. In addition, his paper "The Methodological Implications of Reference Magnetism on Moral Twin Earth" has been accepted for publication in Metaphilosophy.

Congrats to Jeff Bagwell!

Congrats to Jeff Bagwell!  His paper "Eliminativism and Evolutionary Debunking" has been accepted for publication in Ergo.

Recurring Events

  • Meeting — Ethics Bowl on Thursday in the Philosophy Department Common Room at 7-9 PM
  • Meeting — The MAP undergraduate reading group will meet in the Winter '20 quarter.
  • 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.
  • Reading Groups — Faculty and Graduate Student led reading groups are regularly offered.

Events

Invited Talk: Japa Pallikkathayil

Japa Pallikkathayil (Pittsburgh) will deliver a talk to the department on May 7th at 4:00PM

  1. May 7, 2021 - 4:00pm
Invited Talk: Gábor Betegh

Gábor Betegh (Cambridge) will deliver a talk to the department on April 23 at 9:00AM. (Please...

  1. April 23, 2021 - 9:00am
Invited Talk: Asya Passinsky, "Norm and Object: A Normative Hylomorphic Theory of Social Objects"

Asya Passinsky (UNC) will deliver a talk titled "Norm and Object: A Normative Hylomorphic Theory...

  1. February 26, 2021 - 4:00pm
Invited Talk: Saul Kripke

Title: "The Question of Logic".

 

  1. January 14, 2021 - 5:00pm
Invited Talk: Luca Ferrero, "Temporal Selves"

 

 

  1. November 13, 2020 - 4:00pm