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Congrats to UCSB Ethics Bowl!

At the California Regional Ethics Bowl Competition, UCSB's Ethics Bowl team placed fourth and secured a bid for the National Finals in Atlanta, Georgia this February. Congratulations to UCSB's Ethics Bowl team for advancing to the National Championships for the third time in four years (2016, 2018, and 2019)! UCSB's team this year outcompeted thirty other teams. On the team is Ethics Bowl President Dylan Goldman, Katie Stamm-Kirk, Natalie McCosker, Varun Iyer, and Sofi Lyon. The team is coached by graduate student Alex LeBrun.

Congratulations to Sherri Lynn Conklin and the UCSB Ethics Bowl Program

Congratulations to Sherri Lynn Conklin for her work with the UCSB Ethics Bowl Program!

Congratulations to Sherri Lynn Conklin

Congratulations to Sherri Lynn Conklin! Her paper "The State of the Discipline: New Data on Women Faculty in Philosophy" was accepted for publication in Ergo.

(Photograph by Michael Nekrasov: https://michaelnekrasov.com/gallery)

Invited Talk: Dana Goswick

Event Start: November 08, 2019 05:00 PM

Event End: November 08, 2019 07:00 PM

Event Location: South Hall 5617

Event Details:

Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne) will deliver a talk to the Philosophy Department.

Welcome to the new graduate students!

The department welcomes four new graduate students for Fall '19: Steven Canet, Keith Dyck, Evan Green, Paul So

Congratulations to Daniel Story

Congratulations to Daniel Story! His "Interpersonal Moral Luck and Normative Entanglement" was accepted for publication in Ergo, and his "Joint Action without Robust Theory of Mind" was accepted for publication in Synthese.

Congratulations to David Mokriski

Congratulations to David Mokriski, whose paper "The Eligibility of Rule Utilitarianism" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy!