Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa receives 2026 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa on receiving the 2026 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award This award celebrates exceptional mentors within the Faculty of Arts. It recognizes faculty members who are committed to the academic and personal growth of junior colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, and who foster a community of integrity, inclusion, and respect. […]
Professor Fatema Amijee awarded UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship and Rogers Prize
Congratulations to Professor Fatema Amijee on being awarded the UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship and the 2025 Rogers Prize for the best article published in the BJHP last year, for her paper on Du Châtelet’s causal idealism. Each year, the Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship is awarded to six exceptional UBC researchers in the early career […]
Prof. Kimberley Brownlee and PhD Student Alyssa Izatt Featured in UBC News Interview
Prof. Kimberley Brownlee and our PhD student Alyssa Izatt were recently interviewed by UBC News, where they shared their ethical perspectives on why one might support abortion when the patient is a child. Read More
Dr. Evan Thompson on the ideas that shape his research
Professor Evan Thompson has recently been named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar and awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize by the Society for Mind–Matter Research. Together, these honors are a testament to Professor Thompson’s lifelong dedication to scholarship and the far-reaching influence of his work in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, phenomenology, and Asian philosophical […]
Dr. Judy Illes appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada
Congratulations to Dr. Judy Illes, our affiliated faculty member, on her promotion to Officer of the Order of Canada. This distinguished honour recognizes her groundbreaking contributions to biomedical ethics and neuroscience and for being a proponent of Indigenous knowledge as a vital source from which to reframe Western Traditional medicine. Please join us in congratulating […]
Professor Evan Thompson awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize
Congratulations to Professor Evan Thompson on being awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize by the Society for Mind–Matter Research. The prize is awarded in recognition of Prof. Thompson’s seminal contributions connecting cognitive science and philosophy of mind with experience-based ways of thinking, integrating Western scientific and philosophical insights with those of Eastern traditions. Please join us […]
Professor Evan Thompson named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar
Congratulations to Professor Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! The Distinguished University Scholar awards recognize exceptional members of faculty who have distinguished themselves as scholars in research and/or teaching and learning. The award is conferred by the President on the recommendation of an Adjudication Panel. Please join us in congratulating […]
Professor Kimberley Brownlee to Deliver the 2025 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at Oxford
We are pleased to announce that Professor Kimberley Brownlee has been invited to deliver the 2025 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford this November. The Uehiro Lecture Series is an annual public event that embodies the core ethos of the Uehiro Institute: bringing the finest scholarship in analytic philosophy to […]
Dr. Michael Griffin, Dr. Carrie Jenkins and Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes receive SSHRC’s 2024 Insight Grants
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Griffin, Dr. Carrie Jenkins and Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes for receiving Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s 2024 Insight Grants! Insight Grants Dr. Michael Griffin, Professor, Department of Philosophy Project: Transforming logic, rhetoric, and the sciences in late antiquity: Seven new volumes in the Ancient Commentators Series Dr. Carrie Jenkins, […]