Marc Hewitt and Shereen Kotb win 2015 Ricardo Essay Prize
Congratulations to Marc Hewitt and Shereen Kotb, who have won the 2015 David Ricardo Essay Prize. Marc wins for his essay entitled “Mill’s Economic Method and Verification,” and Shereen wins for her essay entitled “Ricardo’s Theory of Mechanization: A Philosophically Inconsistent Theory.” This prize is awarded annually to the best essay in PHIL 363/ECON 319, […]
Dominic Lopes awarded 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations to UBC Philosophy Professor Dominic Lopes, who has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 2015. Details of the Fellowship can be found on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website, here. The list of Fellowship winners can be found here.
Thought, journal co-edited by UBC Philosophy Professor Carrie Jenkins, wins PROSE Award
Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, has won the 2015 PROSE Award for Best New Humanities and Social Sciences Journal. Congratulations to UBC Philosophy Professor Carrie Jenkins, co-editor of the journal. The award honours noteworthy and pioneering contributions to the professional and scholarly publishing world each year. The 29th annual PROSE Awards were announced during the Professional and […]
Christopher Mole receives 2015/16 APA Fellowship at University of Edinburgh
Congratulations to UBC Philosophy Professor Christopher Mole, who has received the 2015/16 American Philosophy Association Fellowship to the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. The list of the Edinburgh Fellowship winners can be found on the APA website, here. Details of the IASH Fellowship can be found on the University of […]
Margaret Schabas awarded a 2014/15 UBC Killam Research Prize
Congratulations to UBC Philosophy Professor Margaret Schabas, who has been awarded a 2014/15 UBC Killam Research Prize. This award recognizes faculty members, who are nominated by their peers, for outstanding research and scholarly contributions. The announcement of the award recipients can be found here. A reception will be held Tuesday, March 31, 2015, in the Glass […]
Congratulations to UBC PhD Tian Jie
Congratulations to Tian Jie, who defended her dissertation this past year (on “collective responsibility”), and who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China in Beijing. This is a teaching and research position, and TJ hopes (and is expected!) to develop analytic political philosophy into a major area of study at Renmin.
Paul Russell Awarded Swedish Research Council Grant
Congratulations to UBC Philosophy Professor Paul Russell who will be joining the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at Gothenburg University thanks to a major grant from the Swedish Research Council.
Tyler DesRoches & Joseph Frigault Win Brian Laetz Graduate Essay Prize
Congratulations to Tyler DesRoches and Joseph Frigault, joint winners of the third annual Brian Laetz Graduate Essay Prize.
Sessional Lectureships for 2014 Winter
The UBC Department of Philosophy invites applications for part-time sessional lectureships for the 2014 Winter Term 1 and Winter Term 2 session.
Johnna Fisher, 1964-2014
It is with great sadness that the Department of Philosophy announces the death of Johnna Fisher, UBC Philosophy Sessional Lecturer and PhD alumna.