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Flavio Tisi Passes Qualifying Paper

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

R. Wolfe Randall Passes Qualifying Paper

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

In Memoriam: Herbert Fingarette

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

Placement Update: Justin Clark Awarded Tenure

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

2023 Graduate and Undergraduate Awards

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.

An Interview with a Philosophy Alumnus and Tech Co-Founder

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

In Memoriam: Francis Dauer

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

R. Wolfe Randall Publication

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! 

King Dissertation Fellowship

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

Ethics Bowl team competes at Bioethics Bowl

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