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Jordan Neidlinger Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Jordan Neidlinger, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation Temporal Experience and the B-Theory of Time on October 27th!

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Welcome to the New Graduate Students!

The department warmly welcomes four new graduate students for the Fall '25: Laura De Santis, Elinor Gerbracht, Haoyi Li, and Sofia Ochoa.

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Studying Philosophy Makes You a Better Thinker

A recent article discusses how studying philosophy makes you a better thinker. You can find the article here.

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Wolfe Randall Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Wolfe Randall who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "On Disagreement, Belief, and Assertion" on June 17.

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Thomason Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Tiffani Thomason for successfully defending her paper "Inferences of Grief in Animals". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

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Hristienko Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Lee Hristienko for successfully defending his paper "Four Questions About Moral-Functional Artificial Intelligence". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

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Adina Roskies elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Adina Roskies, along with two other UC Santa Barbara faculty members, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)—an honor bestowed upon fewer than 1% of the association’s members.

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Tang Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Jiyao Tang for successfully defending his paper "Strict-Energeia in Aristotle’s Metaphysics 1048b18-35". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

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