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UBC Philosophy Welcomes Edward Slingerland

We are excited to announce that Edward Slingerland III, currently a Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Database of Religious History, will be joining the Philosophy Department starting July 2021.

New website honoring Indigenous activist/philosopher Bruce Ferguson

Where The Rivers Meet: check out this website created in honour of Bruce Ferguson, an Algonquin philosopher who made it his mission to build bridges between mainstream analytic philosophy and Indigenous philosophies.

David Ricardo Essay Prize 2020

We are pleased to announce that Jacob Muir, a 3rd year undergraduate student, has won the 2020 David Ricardo Essay Prize for his essay, "Criticisms of Keynes's Concept of Involuntary Unemployment."

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.