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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.

Non-fiction from UCSB PhD

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

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!

Pierce Dissertation Defense

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

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. 

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.

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. 

Emeritus Faculty Republishing: Fingarette's Confucius

Herbert Fingarette's (1921-2018) seminal 1972 monograph Confucius: The Secular as Sacred will be republished by Apocryphile Press. Proceeds will go towards the Fingarette Fund, which was created by Professor Fingarette's daughter Ann Fingarette Hasse to support our graduate students. See here for some praise for the reissued edition, and here for a link to the publisher's site.

Allen and Roskies Hires

We are pleased to announce two senior hires: Colin Allen (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and biology), previously Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, started at UCSB on July 1, 2023. And in addition, Adina Roskies (philosophy of science, cognitive science, and mind), currently holder of a Chair in philosophy at Dartmouth College, will join UCSB in January 2024. We are very excited to welcome both to the Department!