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In Memoriam: Francis Dauer

Remembering Francis Dauer, who joined the Philosophy Department faculty in 1970.

R. Wolfe Randall Publication

Congratulations to R. Wolfe Randall, whose paper "Group Dispositional Belief, Information Possession, and 'Epistemic Explosion': A Further Reply to Jesper Kallestrup" has been accepted for publication in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective! 

King Dissertation Fellowship

Congratulations to David King, who was awarded a Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.

Ethics Bowl team competes at Bioethics Bowl

Congrats to the UCSB undergraduate Ethics Bowl team! They finished undefeated at this year's National Bioethics Bowl in Boston, hosted at Northeastern University. 

Sonny Elizondo Awarded Tenure

Congratulations to Sonny Elizondo on being awarded tenure! Sonny will become an Associate Professor in the UCSB Philosophy Department beginning July 1.

Keith Dyck publication

Congratulations to Keith Dyck, whose paper "On No-Miracles and the Base-Rate Fallacy" has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!

 
Jon Charry Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Jon Charry for successfully defending his paper "Response to Teitel on Theoretical Equivalence". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

Daniel Story Tenure-Track Job

Daniel Story (PhD, UCSB 2020) will be beginning as Assistant Professor at Cal Poly SLO in Fall 2023. Congratulations! 

R. Wolfe Randall publication

Congratulations to R. Wolfe Randall, whose paper "Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup" (co-authored with Avram Hiller) has been published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective!

Bagwell publication

Congratulations to Jeff Bagwell, whose paper "Debunking Interface Theory: Why Hoffman's skepticism (really) is self-defeating" has been published in Synthese!