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Professor Tsouna Lecture Series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris
Professor Tsouna will be delivering a lecture series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. The dates and subjects are as follows:
Continue Reading Professor Tsouna Lecture Series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in ParisGontaryuk Passes Qualifying Paper
Congratulations to Katherina Gontaryuk for successfully defending her paper "A Response to the Reductive Materialist Account of People and Places". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.
Continue Reading Gontaryuk Passes Qualifying PaperFingarette Awards
The department is pleased to announce the second round of awards from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. Surraiya Baloch and Rick Lamb received awards to present their work at conferences at Duke University and Marquette University respectively, and Katherina Gontaryuk received an award for travel to a workshop at Rutgers University.
Continue Reading Fingarette AwardsCharry Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant
Congratulations to Jon Charry, who has received a Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant! The grant will support Charry's project Sophie Germain on the unity of the sciences and the humanities, which he will be conducting in Paris this coming summer.
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April 11th is Give Day!
April 11th is UCSB's Give Day! Consider making a donation to support the philosophy department here.
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Congratulations Ethics Bowl!
Our team came in second place and is the National Runner Up for the 2024 Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. In a competition that included 36 teams (among them Stanford and Yale), UCSB’s team came in second only to UNC. If you see any members of our team, please offer congratulations.
Continue Reading Congratulations Ethics Bowl!Congratulations Sherri Conklin
Congratulations to Sherri Conklin for her tenure track position at Washington State University!
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Congratulations Ethics Bowl
Congratulations to our undergraduate Ethics Bowl team for their performance at the 2023 Regionals competition held at Cal Poly SLO in December! Our team went all the way to the finals, knocked out only by Stanford in the final round. They have nonetheless secured a spot at the Nationals competition to be held in Cincinnati in February, 2024.
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