Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable 2017
We are pleased to announce that the 2017 Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada on May 19-20. Hosts: Margaret Schabas (margaret.schabas@ubc.ca) and Daniel Steel (daniel.steel@ubc.ca) The Centre for Applied Ethics and the Department of Philosophy at UBC are proud to be lead sponsors of the 2017 […]
The Winner of a Canada Council Killam Research Prize
Dominic Lopes – Being for Beauty: Aesthetic Agency and Value Ours is an era unrivalled in the richness of its aesthetic achievement. Natural beauty lies within easy reach, design is ubiquitous, and more art is now made than ever before, sometimes using new technologies to yield entirely new forms. Aesthetic opportunities fill every niche and compete for attention, […]
Public Lecture: How Propaganda Works
April 27, 7:00 – 8:30, Buchanan A201 How do we know when we face a democratic crisis? To some degree, new technologies may pose democratic crises. But propaganda has also classically been taken to be a cause of democratic crisis, independently of the medium. In Book VIII of The Republic, Plato argues that democracy’s freedoms will […]
Philosophy Lecture: Hustle: Hidden Agendas in Language
April 28, 3:00 – 5:00, Buchanan A201 Much of the theory of meaning is designed to explain how efficient language is as a means of cooperating. Philosophers and semanticists have focused on explaining data in models in which speaker meaning and semantic content is idealized in various ways. But much communication occurs by what Miranda […]
PhD Graduate Stefan Lukits Awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to UBC Philosophy PhD Stefan Lukits, who will take up a SSHRC postdoc at UofT with Franz Huber!
The Winner of the David Ricardo Essay Prize
Allister Cave 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!
How Propaganda Works: Public Lecture by Jason Stanley
About the Talk: How do we know when we face a democratic crisis? To some degree, new technologies may pose democratic crises. But propaganda has also classically been taken to be a cause of democratic crisis, independently of the medium. In Book VIII of The Republic, Plato argues that democracy’s freedoms will inevitably lead to tyranny. […]
Donald G. Brown Event – Feb 17th
Friday February 17th, 3-6pm, UBC campus The UBC Philosophy Department invite you to a special event to celebrate the work of our colleague, teacher and friend, Professor Donald G. Brown. 3:00 pm, Buchanan A201: Introduction, Alister Browne, student, friend and literary executor. Lecture by Professor Andrew Irvine, Head, Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBC-Okanagan ‘Brown […]
The Winner of the APA’s Jean Hampton Prize
Our MA graduate Joseph Frigault has just been announced as the winner of the APA’s Jean Hampton Prize, “awarded to a philosopher at a junior career stage whose paper is accepted for the Pacific Division meeting. The paper must be in some area of philosophy in which Professor Hampton worked, including social and political philosophy, […]
Obituary of Donald G. Brown
Donald G. Brown, one of Canada’s most distinguished philosophers, passed away at the age of 89 on July 18, 2016. Don was educated at UBC (B.A., honours philosophy, 1947), Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which he entered as a commoner with senior status in 1948, became a Scholar of Corpus in 1949, and attained his B.A. […]