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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.

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Congratulations Sherri Conklin

Congratulations to Sherri Conklin for her tenure track position at Washington State University! 

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Congratulations Ethics Bowl

Congratulations to our undergraduate Ethics Bowl team for their performance at the 2023 Regionals competition held at Cal Poly SLO in December! Our team went all the way to the finals, knocked out only by Stanford in the final round. They have nonetheless secured a spot at the Nationals competition to be held in Cincinnati in February, 2024.

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Costigan Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Tom Costigan, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled The Metaphysics of Organized Groups with a Look Toward Corporate Moral Responsibility!

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Fingarette awards

The department is pleased to announce the first three awards from the fund established in honor of former UCSB philosophy professor Herb Fingarette by a generous gift from his daughter Ms. Ann Hasse. Kerong Gao and Daehwi Jeong will be receiving support towards presenting their work at upcoming conferences of the American Philosophical Association. Salvador Escalante Diaz Barreiro will be supported for an extended visit to Princeton University where he will conduct research for his dissertation.

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Non-fiction from UCSB PhD

Daniel Story (PhD, 2020) recently published a piece of non-fiction in Reed Magazine. You can read more here.

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Enrollment Services Resource Fair

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Pierce Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Seán Pierce, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled An Exploration and Defence of Non-Eliminative Nihilism!

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