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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!

Mainwaring Dissertation Defense

Congratulations to Tim Mainwaring, who has successfully defended his dissertation titled A Defense of the One over Many Argument for Universals!

Evan 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.

Yuchen 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.

LeBrun 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.

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.

Allen and Roskies Hires

We are pleased to announce two senior hires: Colin Allen (philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and biology), previously Distinguished Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, started at UCSB on July 1, 2023. And in addition, Adina Roskies (philosophy of science, cognitive science, and mind), currently holder of a Chair in philosophy at Dartmouth College, will join UCSB in January 2024. We are very excited to welcome both to the Department!

In Memoriam: Herbert Fingarette

Remembering Herbert Fingarette, who joined the faculty of the UCSB Department of Philosophy in 1948. Below is an obituary written by Professor Fingarette's daughter Ann and her husband Erich.

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Pierce Dissertation Defense

Mainwaring Dissertation Defense

Evan Green Passes Qualifying Paper

Yuchen Li Passes Qualifying Paper

LeBrun Dissertation Defense and Placement

Emeritus Faculty Republishing: Fingarette's Confucius

Allen and Roskies Hires

In Memoriam: Herbert Fingarette

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