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Honours Orientation Event

To All Philosophy Honours Students On behalf of Paul Bartha, Undergraduate Program Chair, we invite you to a pre-term Honours orientation, taking place on Wednesday 1 September from 2:00 – 3:00 PM (Pacific). This event will take place online and will feature a Faculty Q&A with Jonathan Ichikawa and Kimberley Brownlee (instructors for PHIL 390 […]

Colloquia Series: Alison Simmons from Harvard University

You are invited to the next Colloquia in our Winter 2022 Series on March 4th, 2022, with Professor Alison Simmons from Harvard University. About the Event: “Beyond Dualism: The Case of Anne Conway” Lecture by Alison Simmons, Professor in Philosophy, Harvard University. March 4th, 2022 3:00-5:00 p.m BUCH A 201 Abstract: Anne Conway rejects dualism […]

Colloquia Series – Dr. Sukaina Hirji: “Moral Worth Under Oppression”

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Our first colloquium lecture will take place on October 7, 2022, featuring guest speaker Dr. Sukaina Hirji, Assistant Professor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, on “Moral Worth Under Oppression.” Abstract: Moral philosophers tend to agree that even when an […]

Philosophy Colloquia – Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal: “Intimate Concepts”

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Join us online on October 21, 2022 to listen to our guest speaker Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of Philosophy from Simon Fraser University, discussing “Intimate Concepts.” Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/65927660238?pwd=cUdOMWk0NFBmZlJJblRhNWhPMmhQZz09 Meeting ID: 659 2766 0238 Passcode: 121479 Abstract: We use […]

Conversations at the Belkin: Elemental Aesthetics — re/de/composition with Carrie Jenkins and Johnny Mack

This fall, join leading UBC scholars, artists, curators and critics in a series of midday conversations at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Featuring UBC Philosophy’s very own Carrie Jenkins and Johnny Mack (Peter A. Allard School of Law and First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program), the event invites two prominent, disciplinarily distinct voices […]

Information Sessions: Global Citizenship in Guatemala – Summer 2023 Seminar

UBC Professors Sylvia Berryman (Philosophy) and Thomas Kemple (Sociology) are teaming up once again with Go Global to offer a unique encounter with global systems, oppression, poverty and civil society activism. Philosophy 335 and Sociology 430 begin together by examining classical theories of oppressive power and civil society offered by European theorists struggling to understand […]

Philosophy Colloquia – Dr. Brian Weatherson: “The End of Decision Theory”

See slides: http://brian.weatherson.org/talks/endofdecision/ The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series. Our guest speaker Dr. Brian Weatherson, the Marshall M. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will give a talk on “The End of Decision Theory” on December 2, 2022. Abstract: There are a […]

Mothersill Lecture – Dr. Elisabeth Camp: “Perspectival Framing With Pictures and Words”

Download the handout: Handout Talk Abstract: We communicate through various media, and for various purposes.  Pictures and words make meaning in different ways, which offer different imaginative and expressive profiles for communication. I explore three differences between imagistic and linguistic systems, in terms of what contents they can represent, how they express perspectives, and the […]