Philosophy at UBC

11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language Conference
UBC, May 17–20

Our Winter Term Departmental Colloquia ended for the 2011-2012 academic year. To see past talks, please visit the archive.

The Winter Term I (Fall) will start on Tuesday, September 4.

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Congratulations to Alanna Mackenzie, whose essay, "Marx's Theory of the Declining Rate of Profit: Causes and Consequences", won the Undergraduate David Ricardo Essay Prize. Many thanks to Susan Ritson (nee Ricardo), a descendant of the Ricardo family, for sponsoring the Prize.

Congratulations to Matt Fulkerson who has accepted a tenure-track job offer from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). Matt has been a postdoctoral fellow in our Department for the past two years teaching and working in philosophy of mind (touch, perception, affect). We'll miss him...

The newest issue of our Department's newsletter, The Evening Star, is now available here as a pdf file.

Recent publications and presentations by our graduate students.
Congratulations to all!

— ••• — ubc_aerial Aerial view of the UBC Vancouver campus
(Vancouver downtown in the background – center left)
photo by Russ Heinl

Vancouver has been ranked as the most livable city in the world for 5 years in a row in a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the Economist magazine (2011 ranking puts Vancouver as the third most livable city).

Mercer's 2010 Quality of Living survey highlights.

Vancouver makes the Food & Wine magazine's list of top-10 restaurant cities in the world.

Vancouver named top climate change fighter among Canadian cities by the World Wildlife Fund.

What's hot...

	Ori Simchen Necessary Intentionality: A Study in the Metaphysics of Aboutness (Oxford, 2012)
	Eric Margolis, Richard Samuels, Stephen Stich (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science (Oxford, 2012)
	Christopher Mole, Declan Smithies & Wayne Wu (eds.) Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays (Oxford, 2011)
	Andrew Irvine (ed.) David Stove, What's Wrong with Benevolence (Encounter Books, 2011)
	Christopher Mole Attention Is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology (Oxford, 2011)
	Paul Bartha By Parallel Reasoning (Oxford, 2010)
	Dominic McIver Lopes, A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009) Winner of the ASA's 2010 Outstanding Monograph Prize; designated an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice
	Sylvia Berryman The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, 2009)
	Philip Robbins & Murat Aydede (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (Cambridge, 2009)
	Andrew Irvine (ed.) Philosophy of Mathematics (Elsevier, 2009)
	Paul Russell The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (Oxford, 2008) Winner of JHP Book Prize
	Carrie S. Jenkins Grounding Concepts: An Empirical Basis for Arithmetical Knowledge (Oxford, 2008)
	Andrew Irvine Socrates on Trial (University of Toronto Press, 2008)
	Michael S. McKenna & Paul Russell (eds.) Perspectives on P.F. Strawson's Freedom and Resentment (Ashgate, 2008)
	Carl Wennerlind & Margaret Schabas (eds.), David Hume's Political Economy (Routledge, 2008; Paperback 2009 )
	John Woods & Dov Gabbay (eds.) The Handbook of the History of Logic, Vols. 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 (Elsevier, 2008-2009)
	Eric Margolis & Stephen Laurence (eds.) Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation (Oxford, 2007)
	John Woods & Douglas Walton Fallacies: Selected Papers 1972–1982 (College Publications, London, 2007)
	Alan Richardson & Thomas Uebel (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge, 2007)
	Mohan Matthen & Christopher Stephens (eds.) Philosophy of Biology (Elsevier, 2007)
	Murat Aydede (ed.) Pain: New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study (MIT, 2006)
	Matthew Kieran & Dominic McIver Lopes (eds.) Knowing Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology (Springer, 2006)
	Andrew Irvine & John S. Russell (eds.) In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
	Dominic McIver Lopes Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (Oxford, 2005; Paperback 2007)
	Margaret Schabas Natural Origins of Economics (Chicago, 2005; Paperback 2007)
	Kent A. Peacock & Andrew D. Irvine (eds.) Mistakes of Reason: Essays in Honour of John Woods (University of Toronto Press, 2005)

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