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UCSB Ethics Bowl Teams Compete at Regionals, headed to National Finals

Two ethics bowl teams represented UCSB at the regional competition at Stanford University on Saturday Dec 7. One of our teams advanced to the final round but were defeated by Stanford. There were 27 teams and the 4 that won a bid at nationals are: Stanford, UCSB, Cabrillo College, and UCSD. Attached is a group picture. Nationals will be held in Virginia in February.

David King Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to David King, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled On the Nature and Ethics of Belief!

Meaning, Reference and Modality: Celebrating Nathan Salmón’s Work

There was a great turn out for the recent conference honoring Nathan Salmón's work!

New Fingarette travel awards

The Department is pleased to announce that Daehwi Jeong and Kerong Gao are the Fall 2024 recipients of support from Herbert Fingarette graduate student research travel fund. Daehwi will be presenting papers at both the Eastern and Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Kerong will present a paper at the Eastern APA. Their fund was established by Ann Fingarette Hasse in memory of her father who was a faculty member in the Department for forty years.

We are hiring at Asst. Prof. level in epistemology!

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Epistemology. Please use this link to apply.