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Rick Lamb Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Rick Lamb, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled Moral Disagreement as Evidence!

Steven Canet Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Steven Canet, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled Genuine Property Naturalism in Object Metaphysics!

Charles Perkins Publication

Congratulations to Charles Perkins, whose paper "Aquinas and the Over-Hasty Conclusion" has been accepted for publication in Faith and Philosophy! 

UCSB Ethics Bowl Teams Compete at Regionals, headed to National Finals

David King Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to  David King, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled On the Nature and Ethics of Belief!

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

There was a great turn out for the recent conference honoring Nathan Salmón's work!

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.