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Departmental Colloquium: Nathan Salmón

Event Start: February 17, 2023 05:00 PM

Event End: February 17, 2023 07:00 PM

Event Details:

Nathan Salmón will be delivering our last departmental colloquium of the quarter, entitled "From Modality to Millianism".

R. Wolfe Randall publication

Congratulations to R. Wolfe Randall, whose paper "Pluralism About Group Knowledge: A Reply to Jesper Kallestrup" (co-authored with Avram Hiller) has been published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective​! Here is a link to the article. 

Bagwell publication

Congratulations to Jeff Bagwell, whose paper "Debunking Interface Theory: Why Hoffman's skepticism (really) is self-defeating" has been published in Synthese! Here is a link to the article. 

Hanschmann publication

Congratulations to Jason Hanschmann, whose paper "Memberless Social Groups" has been accepted for publication in Synthese! 

Ethics Bowl regional competition

This past weekend, UCSB's two Ethics Bowl debate teams competed at the annual regional competition hosted by UC Santa Cruz. Eighteen teams, from all over California, competed for four bids to the national competition which will be held sometime early next year. The level of competition in the qualifying round was very high this year, and, although our teams tried their best, neither team was able to qualify for the semi-finals. Our teams, UCSB 1 and UCSB 2, received 9th and 5th place, respectively. We are very proud of their hard work this season!

Sherri Lynn Conklin publication

Congrats to Sherri Lynn Conklin (UCSB PhD, 2020)! Her co-authored paper , “Where are the Women? The Ethnic Representation of Women Authors in Philosophy Journals, by Regional Affiliation and Specialization” has been accepted for publication in The European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.

Statement of Support

As faculty in the department of Philosophy, we would like to voice our strong support for our teaching assistants and associates. Our support is based on the recognition of graduate students as foundational to the department’s research and teaching mission. We all benefit when graduate students are paid a living wage. We are concerned about economic insecurity among our graduate students. Salaries have failed to keep pace with inflation and rising rents in our area.

Sherri Lynn Conklin New Position

Congratulations to Sherri Lynn Conklin (PhD, 2020)! Her project, titled “Set Theoretic Accounts of Second Order Moral Properties: A Study in Algorithmic Ethics” is supported by the 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on Ethics and Technology with the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.