We are delighted to announce that Prof. Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa willl be joining our department full-time as (tenure-track) assistant professor. Welcome on board, Jonathan!
We have the sad news that Jamie Avis, a much loved graduate student in our department, passed away on Dec. 20. The department will likely be holding a memorial service in January. Further details of funeral arrangements will be posted soon.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins has been appointed as Canada Research Chair in Philosophy. Congratulations to Carrie!
Recent publications and presentations by our graduate students. Here. Congratulations to all!
Spectacular Cognitive Science of Morality Lecture Series for the 2011–2012 academic year. Matt Bedke (UBC Philosophy) and Kiley Hamlin (UBC Psychology), in concert with with HECC (a centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture), have put together a speaker series on The Cognitive Science of Morality. Talks will be held periodically on Mondays at 5pm in the Green College Coach House on the UBC campus. We have a spectacular lineup and all are welcome to attend.
Congratulations are in order for Prof. Michael Griffin! Michael's Oxford University thesis, "The Reception of the Categories of Aristotle ca 80 BC to AD 220," recently received special commendation in the twenty-third annual awards for the best doctoral theses in Hellenic Studies in the UK, awarded by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (with offices in London, Vienna, Brussels and Washington). This is welcome recognition of the significance of Michael's research.
Dom Lopes' book, A Philosophy of Computer Art (Routledge, 2009), wins the ASA's Outstanding Monograph Prize. More information about the book is here.
Paul Russell's book wins the Journal for the History of Philosophy annual prize for the best new published book in the history of philosophy. From JHP's announcement: "The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $3000 for the best published book in the history of philosophy. On the Board's behalf, we are pleased to announce that the winner of the prize for 2008 is Paul Russell's The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (Oxford University Press, 2008)." Read the UBC Faculty of Arts news coverage. Big Congratulations, Paul!
