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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.
Continue Reading Non-fiction from UCSB PhDEnrollment Services Resource Fair
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Continue Reading Enrollment Services Resource FairPierce Dissertation Defense
Congratulations to Seán Pierce, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled An Exploration and Defence of Non-Eliminative Nihilism!
Continue Reading Pierce Dissertation DefenseMainwaring Dissertation Defense
Congratulations to Tim Mainwaring, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled A Defense of the One over Many Argument for Universals!
Continue Reading Mainwaring Dissertation DefenseEvan Green Passes Qualifying Paper
Congratulations to Evan Green for successfully defending his paper "The Socratic Fallacy and the Priority of Controversy". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.
Continue Reading Evan Green Passes Qualifying PaperYuchen Li Passes Qualifying Paper
Congratulations to Yuchen Li for successfully defending his paper "Seeking Forgiveness". Passing the Qualifying Paper is the last hurdle in our graduate program before advancing to candidacy.
Continue Reading Yuchen Li Passes Qualifying PaperLeBrun Dissertation Defense and Placement
Congratulations to Alex LeBrun, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled On the Metaphysical Content of Scientific Theories! Alex will be starting as a lecturer at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly SLO) this fall.
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Emeritus Faculty Republishing: Fingarette's Confucius
Herbert Fingarette's (1921-2018) seminal 1972 monograph Confucius: The Secular as Sacred will be republished by Apocryphile Press. Proceeds will go towards the Fingarette Fund, which was created by Professor Fingarette's daughter Ann Fingarette Hasse to support our graduate students. See here for some praise for the reissued edition, and here for a link to the publisher's site.
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