Philosophy at UBC

"A Defense of Dogmatism" (Abstract)
Jeremy Fantl (Calgary) • Dept Colloquium
November 20 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

"The Making of Driftwood:
Understanding the Ontology of Found Artifacts" (Abstract)
Brad Murray (UBC) • Dept Colloquium
December 4 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

Dan Kaufman (Colorado) • Dept Colloquium
January 15 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

"Bodily Sources of Mind, Thought, and Language" (Abstract)
Mark L. Johnson (Oregon) • HECC Seminar
January 18 • 5 PM • Green College, Coach House

Natalie Gold (Edinburgh) • Dept Colloquium
March 5 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

David Schmidtz (Arizona) • Dept Colloquium
March 12 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

"The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World"
Owen Flanagan (Duke) • HECC Seminar
March 31 • 5 PM • Green College, Coach House

Frederique de Vignemont (CNRS, Paris) • Dept Colloquium
April 9 • 3–5 PM • IBLC 260

Philosophy of Science Workshop
(co-sponsored by UBC, SFU, and UW-Seattle)
Speakers include:
Holly Andersen (SFU), Carole Lee (UW), Helen Longino (Stanford), John Manchak (UW), Chris Mole (UBC), Bence Nanay (Syracuse/SFU), Alan Richardson (UBC), Chris Stephens (UBC).
April 30, 2010 • 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM • UBC Campus, room TBA
(Details will be posted later • For more info, contact
Prof. Margaret Schabas)

Department colloquia are free and open to public.
To see past talks, please visit the archive.

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Philosophy’s Makeover:
Why Job Prospects for Philosophy Grads Are Brightening

"... Full-time enrolment in philosophy programs at Canadian universities grew 54 percent between 2000 and 2004 – more than double the 25 percent increase in full-time enrolment overall during that period, according to Statistics Canada. Not only is the number of students taking philosophy courses on the rise, but the job prospects for people with philosophy degrees are brightening. Law schools value philosophy graduates because they’re trained to think critically and to argue their point. Businesses like their ability to approach problems from multiple points of view. And even engineering and other technical fields find philosophy useful in areas such as ethics..."

Read the full story by Daniel Drolet (appeared in University Affairs)

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(Vancouver downtown in the background – center left)
photo by Russ Heinl

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Vancouver has been ranked as the most livable city in the world for the fifth year in a row in a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of the Economist magazine.

Mercer's 2009 Quality of Living survey highlights.

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

USA Today calls Vancouver "the supermodel of North American cities." Read the whole news story (March 13, 2009).

What's hot...

	Dominic McIver Lopes, A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009)
	Sylvia Berryman, The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, 2009)
	Andrew Irvine (ed.), Philosophy of Mathematics (Elsevier, 2009)
	Philip Robbins & Murat Aydede (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition (Cambridge, 2009)
	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)
	John Woods & Dov Gabbay (eds.), The Handbook of the History of Logic, Vols. 2 & 4 (Elsevier, 2008)
	Paul Russell, The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (Oxford, 2007)
	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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