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We are excited to announce that Kimberley Brownlee will be joining the department starting July 2020

We are excited to announce that Kimberley Brownlee, currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, will be joining the department starting July 2020. Professor Brownlee is

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We are excited to announce that Kimberley Brownlee will be joining the department starting July 2020

We are excited to announce that Kimberley Brownlee, currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, will be joining the department starting July 2020. Professor Brownlee is

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Adam Smith Essay Prize 2019

The Department is pleased to announce that Dean Sanctis has won the 2019 Adam Smith Essay Prize for his essay, "Motivating Factors Behind Adam Smith's Theories of Mutual Sympathy."

PhD Student Jordan Wadden Publishes New Chapter

Congratulations to UBC Philosophy PhD student, Jordan Wadden, for publishing a chapter in "Ethics and Error in Medicine" (edited by Fritz Allhoff and Sandra L. Borden).

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Equity Workshop: Gender Equity, Excellence, and Implicit Bias

1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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