Philosophy at UBC

"The Philosophical Breakfast Club and
the Invention of the Scientist" • Abstract
Laura J. Snyder (St John's)
(Sponsored by The UBC Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Department of History, and Science and Technology Studies Graduate Program)
February 16 • 4–6 PM • IBLC, The Lilooet Room

AAAS Annual Meeting
Theme: Flattening the World – Building a Global Knowledge Society
February 16–20, Vancouver

”Kant, Possible Worlds, and the Coextensiveness of Modal Categories“ • (Department Colloquium)
Uygar Abaci (UBC)
March 2 • 3–5 PM • BUCH A102

Philosophy Department "Spring Colloquia"
(Organized by Roberta Ballarin & Andrew irvine)
Venue: University Centre Lower Level (UCLL) in the Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre, Room 174
March 10, Saturday

Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (UBC) • 9:30-11:00 AM
"Justification Magnets"
John Carriero (UCLA) • 11:15-12:45 PM
"Epistemology Past and Present"
Gila Sher (UCSD) • 1:45-3:15 PM
"Truth as Composite Correspondence"
Anjan Chakravartty (Notre Dame) • 3:30-5:00 PM
"Worldmaking and Ontology"

Title: TBA (Department Colloquium)
Carla Fehr (Waterloo)
March 16 • 3–5 PM • BUCH A102

Title: TBA (Department Colloquium)
Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck)
March 30 • 3–5 PM • BUCH A102

"The Rationalist Delusion in Moral Psychology and Other Parts of the Scientific Community"
Jonathan Haidt (University of Virginia)
(HECC/Green College Seminars: The Cognitive Science of Morality lecture series • Green College/UBC)
April 2 • 5–7 PM • Green College Coach House

Title: TBA (Department Colloquium)
Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam/Stanford)
April 13 • 3–5 PM • BUCH A102

"Person as Scientist, Person as Moralist"
(HECC/Green College Seminars: The Cognitive Science of Morality lecture series • Green College/UBC)
Josh Knobe (Yale University)
May 7 • 5–7 PM • Green College Coach House

Department colloquia are free and open to public. They are held at 3:00 PM in BUCH A102 unless otherwise noted. To see past talks, please visit the archive.

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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.

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!

Congratulations to Eric Margolis for his appointment as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012-2013.

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

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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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