UBC Philosophy

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Vancouver, BC, Canada
philosophy.ubc.ca
Joined February 2013
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  1. Apr 10

    Good luck to everybody on their final exams! The UBC finals period runs April 10–25.

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  2. Apr 9

    Thanks to everybody who came out for our department photo last week!

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  3. Apr 6

    Our last departmental colloquium of the academic year is this afternoon—Jacob Stegenga will speak on mechanistic knowledge in medicine. 4pm, BUCH A103. All are welcome!

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  4. Apr 6

    In September Madeleine Ransom will take up a fellowship at UBC's Centre for Applied Ethics on "Machine Learning, Human Expertise and Democracy." Congratulations Madeleine!

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  5. Apr 5

    Congratulations Dr. Inkpen!

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  6. Apr 4

    Sylvia Berryman and Alison Wylie will speak at today at 5pm on "Witnessing and Stewardship: Reflections on Living with the Dead"

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    Apr 2

    Entry by Roberta Ballarin ().

    Learn more about Modern Origins of Modal Logic here:
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  8. Apr 3

    Photo is on for today! Weather is looking good but watch this space for a location change in case of rain. All department members (students, staff, faculty) are welcome to join the photo, and for pizza afterwards.

    We'll be taking our 2018 department photo April 3 at 12:30 p.m. All department members—students, staff, and faculty—are welcome to join the photo. Free pizza afterward. Details at the facebook event:
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  9. Mar 30

    UBC PhD student Sina Fazelpour has a W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics fellowship for his project, “Counterfactuals, idealizations, and blind Spots: a case study in the computational Modeling of epistemic benefits of group diversity”. Congratulations Sina!

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    Mar 28

    I made fun of philosophy 3 years ago but then I was challenged to study it, so I started reading the stoics. I’ve changed my view on philosophy. But not on welders. We need both! Vocational training for workers & philosophers to make sense of the world.

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    Mar 28

    Including philosophers Sylvia Berryman and Alison Wylie from and Dan Steel from the UBC Centre for Applied Ethics!

    Great new webpage showcasing the research cluster being established by colleague Andrew Martindale and others.
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  12. Mar 29

    Jonathan Ichikawa will be in an "Author Meets Critics" session this afternoon at the APA Pacific in San Diego, discussing his recent book "Contextualizing Knowledge"

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  13. Mar 28

    Former UBC Professor Samantha Matherne has accepted a tenure-track position at Harvard University. Congratulations Professor Matherne!

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  14. Mar 27

    Jonathan Ichikawa wrote a review of Peter Baumann's "Contextualism: A Defense"

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  15. Mar 26

    Congratulations to UBC alumna Nora Boyd, who recently defended her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, and has accepted a tenure-track position at Siena College!

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    Mar 20

    David Wong from Duke University will deliver this week's colloquium talk on Confucian ideas about harmony and ritual. 4–6 pm Friday, BUCH A103. All are welcome!

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  17. Mar 23

    Holger Andreas (UBC-Okanagan) reviewed Moritz Schulz's recent book on counterfactuals and probability.

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  18. Mar 22

    We'll be taking our 2018 department photo April 3 at 12:30 p.m. All department members—students, staff, and faculty—are welcome to join the photo. Free pizza afterward. Details at the facebook event:

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  19. Mar 22

    An article about studying existentialism in Vancouver, including a student-directed seminar at UBC

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  20. Mar 21

    UBC's Jonathan Ichikawa will be doing an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on r/philosophy on Reddit next week. Monday the 26th, 9 am Pacific.

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