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Charles Perkins Dissertation Defense via zoom on 7/16

Charles will be defending his dissertation ​Language, Metaphysics, and Natural Theology on July 16th from 2-5pm via zoom. Please email perkins@ucsb.edu for the zoom link. 

Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate End of the Year Award Recipients

To see photos of some of our award winners this, check out our instagram page. 

Alumni Spotlight

Ari Phillips ‘06 (Philosophy and Art) is now a climate reporter and editor for an environmental organization. He recently gave an interview about his journey here.

Gao and Escalante Díaz Barreiro Pass Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Kerong Gao and Salvador Escalante Díaz Barreiro for successfully defending their papers "On Reason’s Influence on the Non-Rational Part of the Soul " and “Non-rational Beliefs: Mental Division in Republic 10. 602c-603a”. Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

Norton GSA Award

Congratulations to our grad student Patrick Norton, who recently won a GSA Excellence in Teaching Award! Only a handful of these are given out campus-wide each year, so this is a big honor. The award recognizes graduate students who have shown excellence and gone above and beyond as teachers at UC Santa Barbara.

Fingarette Awards

The department is pleased to announce the third round of awards to Philosophy graduate students from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. PhD Students Jon Charry, Katherina Gontaryuk, and Tiffani Thomason all received awards to present their work at, respectively, meetings of the Canadian Philosophical Association, the International Social Ontology Society, and the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. We are very grateful to Anne Hasse for her support and guidance. The next round for applications will be in the Fall 2024 quarter and we anticipate to be able to offer a second round of funding during first half of 2025.

UCSB Women in Business luncheon

The Philosophy Department is proud to report that Maya Rupert, one of our former majors (BA 2003), was keynote speaker at this year’s UCSB Women in Business luncheon. Click for more details.

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...

Gontaryuk 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.

Fingarette 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. Due to the generosity of the donors, the committee was also able to supplement the first-round awards to Kerang Gao and Daehwi Jeong for their travel to present papers at the American Philosophical Association meetings.