News

New Fingarette travel awards

The Department is pleased to announce that Daehwi Jeong and Kerong Gao are the Fall 2024 recipients of support from Herbert Fingarette graduate student research travel fund. Daehwi will be presenting papers at both the Eastern and Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Kerong will present a paper at the Eastern APA. Their fund was established by Ann Fingarette Hasse in memory of her father who was a faculty member in the Department for forty years.

We are hiring at Asst. Prof. level in epistemology!

The Department of Philosophy at the University of California Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Epistemology. Please use this link to apply.

Meaning, Reference and Modality: Celebrating Nathan Salmón’s Work

Event Start: November 09, 2024 10:00 AM

Event End: November 10, 2024 04:30 PM

Event Details:

Loma Pelona Center

Charles Perkins Dissertation Defense and New Position

Congratulations to Charles Perkins, who has successfully defended his dissertation Language, Metaphysics, and Natural Theology!

DeMartini Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Thainá DeMartini for successfully defending her paper "Microaggressions as Oppressive Implicatures".

Welcome to the new graduate students!

The department warmly welcomes four new graduate students for the Fall '24:  Eric Fossum, Ka Chun Mak, Stephen Boynton

Keith Dyck Publication

Congratulations to Keith Dyck, whose paper "Credibillity Excess as an Epistemic Injustice" has been accepted for publication in Episteme!

Charles Perkins Dissertation Defense via zoom on 7/16

Charles will be defending his dissertation ​Language, Metaphysics, and Natural Theology on July 16th from 2-5pm via zoom. Please email perkins@ucsb.edu for the zoom link.