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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

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".

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.

Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate End of the Year Award Recipients

There are three awards for this year's undegraduates. Winners of the Wilkins Award include, James Xie, Isabelle Brady, and Natalie Ries. For the Church Award, winners include Wesly Costa and Sasha Stern. Winners of the Girvetz Award include Ben Solnik and Aki Hayashi. Photos of some of the winners can be found on our department instagram.

Alumni Spotlight

Ari Phillips ‘06 (Philosophy and Art) is now a climate reporter and editor for an environmental organization. He recently gave an interview about his journey here.

Gao and Escalante Díaz Barreiro Pass Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Kerong Gao and Salvador Escalante Díaz Barreiro for successfully defending their papers "On Reason’s Influence on the Non-Rational Part of the Soul " and “Non-rational Beliefs: Mental Division in Republic 10. 602c-603a”. Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

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Welcome to the new graduate students!

Charles Perkins Dissertation Defense and New Position

DeMartini Passes Qualifying Paper

Keith Dyck Publication

Charles Perkins Dissertation Defense via zoom on 7/16

Congratulations to our Undergraduate and Graduate End of the Year Award Recipients

Alumni Spotlight

Gao and Escalante Díaz Barreiro Pass Qualifying Paper

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