Jennifer Nagel will be giving her talk on Friday, January 30, 2015 in BUCH A203 and 3pm. TITLE: Epistemic self-consciousness ABSTRACT: One of the main divisions in contemporary epistemology concerns the importance of the first-person perspective in knowledge. Internalists and externalists disagree about the significance of what we can grasp when we become self-conscious about […]
Antonia Peacocke (Stanford University) will present as a part of our monthly Colloquia series.
Deadline for submitting papers to “Eonia,” UBC’s undergraduate philosophy journal.
A talk featuring Glen Coulthard, Critical Indigenous Studies, UBC-V; Lucy Allais, Philosophy, UC-San Diego and University of Witswatersrand; and Eldon Yellowhorn, First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University.
A Saturday afternoon workshop featuring Fiona Jenkins (Department of Philosophy, Australian National University), Toni Schmader (Department of Psychology, UBC), and Alison Wylie (Department of Philosophy, UBC).
This Imagine Day, Dr. Paul Bartha, our Undergraduate Majors Advisor, will be hosting the department’s annual “Welcome Back” event on Zoom.
This Imagine Day, we’ll be holding a Zoom drop-in for new students. Join in for the opportunity to ask professors and current students questions about the kinds of philosophy classes and programs on offer at UBC, as well as the chance to do a little philosophy of your own.
Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind will be discussing their new book, A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism, with Don Garrett, author of Hume, in this free event hosted by the University of Chicago Press.
On Friday 2 October, C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah) will be joining us for a talk and Q&A session on “Value Capture and Value Collapse” in the first event of our 2020 Colloquia series.
On Friday 23 October, Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University) will take questions on his talk — “Does Science Progress?”, a recording of which will be made available before the session.