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Invited Graduate Colloquium- Mike Ashfield

Event Start: November 10, 2016 05:00 PM

Event End: November 10, 2016 05:00 PM

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USC Graduate student Mike Ashfield will be giving a talk in the philosophy common room SH 5631 at 4 pm, light refreshments provided. This talk sponsored by the UCSB Minorities and Philosophy program.

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Invited Talk- Wayne Wright

Event Start: November 04, 2016 04:00 PM

Event End: November 04, 2016 04:00 PM

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Wayne Wright of CSU Long Beach will be giving a talk entitled "A Patchwork Perspective on Color Constancy" at the department.

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Invited Talk- Sara Magrin

Event Start: November 18, 2016 05:00 PM

Event End: November 18, 2016 05:00 PM

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Sara Magrin of UC Berkeley will be giving a talk entitled "Philosopher-Kings and Stoic Sages: Epictetus' Account of the Starting Points (aphormai) of Virtue" at the department.

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Steven Humphrey Lecture in the Philosophy of Science: Gordon Belot

Event Start: March 17, 2017 04:00 PM

Event End: March 17, 2017 04:00 PM

Event Location: Mosher Alumni House at UCSB

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The 2017 Steven Humphrey Lecture in the Philosophy of Science will be given by Gordon Belot on March 17th 2017.

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Invited Talk- Mark Greenberg

Event Start: May 19, 2017 04:00 PM

Event End: May 19, 2017 04:00 PM

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Mark Greenberg of UCLA will be giving a talk at the department.

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Invited Talk- Yuval Avnur

Event Start: October 14, 2016 04:00 PM

Event End: October 14, 2016 04:00 PM

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Yuval Avnur of Scripps College Claremont will be giving a talk entitled "The significance of (truly) lacking evidence"at the department.

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New hire starting 2017: Professor Daniel Korman to join faculty.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Daniel Korman will be joining our faculty starting Fall 2017. Korman has published widely in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, and is the author of Objects: Nothing out of the Ordinary (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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Visiting Professor 2016-19 Richard McKirahan.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Richard McKirahan will be a Visiting Professor at the Department during the next three years. McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, the President of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, and the author of numerous books and papers on Aristotle and on Pre-Socratic philosophy.

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