Sina Fazelpour offered SSHRC Postdoc
PhD Candidate Sina Fazelpour has been offered a Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Pursuing his research at Carnegie Mellon University, Sina will be working with David Danks on characterizing and mitigating the potential harms of algorithmic-based decision making.
Rebecca Livernois has been offered a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University
Rebecca Livernois has been offered a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University, to commence this summer. The Rotman Institute aims to bring philosophers into productive engagement with scientists, policy-makers, and the public to make progress on foundational and socially relevant questions. She will be working with Eric Desjardins and Tony […]
Carrie Jenkins has won the New Philosopher Writers’ Award.
The announcement is here And the story can be found here
Alex McLean Wins 2018 Adam Smith Prize
He has won the award for his essay entitled “Adam Smith on the Right to Subsistence.” The Adam Smith Prize is given each year for the best research paper submitted in Philosophy 362/Economics 318: History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith. Many thanks to the generous donation by Ms. Meeru Dhalwala for […]
The Winner of the David Ricardo Essay Prize
Philip Monagan has won the David Ricardo Essay Prize for the best essay submitted in the course on the History and Philosophy of Economics (PHIL 363/ECON 319). Congratulations!
Jeff Pelletier along with Allen Hazen has won the inaugural competition for the Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize
Jeff Pelletier (UBC) along with Allen Hazen (U of A) has won the inaugural competition for the Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize, to be awarded in June at UNILOG 2018, the Congress on Universal Logic. The winning entry is entitled “K3, Ł3, LP, RM3, A3, FDE, M: How to make many valued logics work for you”. It […]
Workshop on Moral and Pragmatic Encroachment – January 20-21
Workshop Organizers: Jonathan Ichikawa and Sarah Moss Sponsored by the UBC and the University of Michigan Philosophy Departments According to traditional ideas about belief, knowledge, and evidence, whether someone should believe something, and whether one knows it, are fundamentally matters of ‘purely epistemic considerations’, like whether it is true and what evidence is available in […]
Joseph Conrad Wins 2017 Adam Smith Prize
He has won the award for his essay entitled “Distributive Justice and the Needs of the Poor in the Writings of Adam Smith.” The Adam Smith Prize is given each year for the best research paper submitted in Philosophy 362/Economics 318: History and Philosophy of Economics from Aristotle to Adam Smith. Many thanks to the […]
The Metaphysics of Love Workshop 2. December 4th, 2017
What? A day of talks and an evening of art exploring romantic love When? Talks: 9am-4.30pm Screenings: 7.30pm December 4th Where? Talks: Buchanan D324 Screenings: The Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main Street How much? It’s free! —For email to past attendees— Dear XXXX, Last year you attended Carrie Jenkins’s workshop on […]
UBC Department of Philosophy Colloquium – Kelin Emmett
Kelin Emmett, University of British columbia October 20, 2017 / 4:00 – 5:30 pm / BUCH A103 Refusing to Will the Means Abstract: Many Kantians believe that hypothetical imperatives depend on categorical imperatives for their normativity. I argue that this view stems from a prevalent, but mistaken, understanding of hypothetical imperatives as […]