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Fingarette awards

The department is pleased to announce the first three awards from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. Kerong Gao and Daehwi Jeong will be receiving support towards presenting their work at upcoming conferences of the American Philosophical Association. Salvador Escalante Diaz Barreiro will be supported for an extended visit to Princeton University where he will conduct research for his dissertation.

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Non-fiction from UCSB PhD

Daniel Story (PhD, 2020) recently published a piece of non-fiction in Reed Magazine. You can read more here.

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Enrollment Services Resource Fair

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Mainwaring Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Tim Mainwaring, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled A Defense of the One over Many Argument for Universals!

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Pierce Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Seán Pierce, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled An Exploration and Defence of Non-Eliminative Nihilism!

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Evan Green Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Evan Green for successfully defending his paper "The Socratic Fallacy and the Priority of Controversy". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy. 

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Yuchen Li Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Yuchen Li for successfully defending his paper "Seeking Forgiveness". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

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LeBrun Dissertation Defense and Placement

Congratulations to Alex LeBrun, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled On the Metaphysical Content of Scientific Theories! Alex will be starting as a lecturer at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) this fall. 

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