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Congratulations to Flavio Tisi for successfully defending his paper "Against Brueckner and Fisher's Solution to the Lucretian Symmetry Argument". 

Congratulations to R. Wolfe Randall for successfully defending his paper "Why We Should Believe Our Controversial Philosophical Views". 

Remembering Herbert Fingarette, who joined the faculty of the UCSB Department of Philosophy in 1948. 

Congratulations to Justin Clark (PhD, 2013) who has been awarded tenure at Hamilton College!

Congratulations to this year's winners of the Philosophy Department's awards! The awardees were honored at the Department's end-of-the-year barbecue.

UCSB Alumni Affairs interviewed philosophy alumnus Altif Brown (PhD, 2013) who co-founded the blockchain-based company Constellation Network. Read the full interview here.

Remembering Francis Dauer, who joined the Philosophy Department faculty in 1970.

Congratulations to R. Wolfe Randall, whose paper "Group Dispositional Belief, Information Possession, and 'Epistemic Explosion': A Further Reply to Jesper Kallestrup" has been accepted for publication in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

Congratulations to David King, who was awarded a Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.

Congrats to the UCSB undergraduate Ethics Bowl team! They finished undefeated at this year's National Bioethics Bowl in Boston, hosted at Northeastern University.