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.

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.

Professor Tsouna will be delivering a lecture series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale...

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.