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Fingarette Awards

The department is pleased to announce the third round of awards to Philosophy graduate students from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. PhD Students Jon Charry, Katherina Gontaryuk, and Tiffani Thomason all received awards to present their work at, respectively, meetings of the Canadian Philosophical Association, the International Social Ontology Society, and the Society for Philosophy & Psychology. We are very grateful to Anne Hasse for her support and guidance.

UCSB Women in Business luncheon

Professor Tsouna Lecture Series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris

Professor Tsouna will be delivering a lecture series on Plato's Republic at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. The dates and subjects are as follows: 

Gontaryuk Passes Qualifying Paper

Congratulations to Katherina Gontaryuk for successfully defending her paper "A Response to the Reductive Materialist Account of People and Places". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.

Fingarette Awards

The department is pleased to announce the second round of awards from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. Surraiya Baloch and Rick Lamb received awards to present their work at conferences at Duke University and Marquette University respectively, and Katherina Gontaryuk received an award for travel to a workshop at Rutgers University.

Charry Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant

Congratulations to Jon Charry, who has received a Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant! The grant will support Charry's project Sophie Germain on the unity of the sciences and the humanities, which he will be conducting in Paris this coming summer.

April 11th is Give Day!

April 11th is UCSB's Give Day! Consider making a donation to support the philosophy department here.

Congratulations Ethics Bowl!

Our team came in second place and is the National Runner Up for the 2024 Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. In a competition that included 36 teams (among them Stanford and Yale), UCSB’s team came in second only to UNC. If you see any members of our team, please offer congratulations.