Faculty

Dr. Evan Thompson and Dr. Fatema Amijee receive 2023/24 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award

Dr. Evan Thompson and Dr. Fatema Amijee receive 2023/24 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award

Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson and Dr. Fatema Amijee for receiving this year’s Dean of Arts Faculty Research award! Dr. Evan Thompson Research project: Dying: Our Ultimate Transformation Dr. Fatema Amijee Research project: A Defense of Moderate Metaphysical Rationalism

2023/2024 Department of Philosophy Colloquia Speakers List

2023/2024 Department of Philosophy Colloquia Speakers List

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce our Colloquium Series for this year! Please save these dates in your calendar. Jan 26, 2024:  Dr. François Claveau Feb   9, 2024:  Dr. Suze Berkhout Feb 27, 2024:  Dr. Yitzhak Melamed Mar 12, 2024:  Dr. Alan Hajek

Dr. Alison Wylie as Co-Director in the CBIKS project

Dr. Alison Wylie as Co-Director in the CBIKS project

Researchers from the University of British Columbia Faculty of Arts will be partners in the newly announced NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) – a five-year, $30 million international NSF Science and Technology Center based at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The center will focus on connecting Indigenous knowledges with mainstream western science […]

Kimberley Brownlee and Jonathan Ichikawa awarded SSHRC Insight grants

Congratulations to Professor Kimberley Brownlee and Professor Jonathan Ichikawa, who have each been announced as recipients of SSHRC Insight Grant Awards: Prof. Kimberley Brownlee Project: Face to Face: A Study of Interactional Ethics Prof. Jonathan Ichikawa Project: Epistemic Courage, Oppression, and the Duty to Believe

Dominic Lopes Among Philosophers Contributing Lectures to Benefit Conference for Ukraine

Dominic Lopes Among Philosophers Contributing Lectures to Benefit Conference for Ukraine

We are honored to announce that UBC Philosophy’s very own Professor Dominic Lopes will be speaking at a major online benefit event for the Ukrainian academy, entitled: ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’. Here is the conference link: https://civic.ukma.edu.ua/benefit/ Keynotes will be delivered by world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood, one of the most […]

Congratulations to University Killam Professor Dominic Lopes

Congratulations to University Killam Professor Dominic Lopes

UBC Philosophy’s Professor Dominic Lopes has been announced a new University Killam Professor. The University Killam Professorship recognizes exceptional teachers and researchers who are leaders in their fields, and who have received international recognition for their talents and achievements. This is the highest honour UBC can confer upon a faculty member. Professor Dominic McIver Lopes is […]

Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins selected as finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins selected as finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

UBC Philosophy’s Carrie Jenkins was selected as a finalist for her book Victoria Sees It for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers. Carrie Jenkins is an award-winning philosopher and […]

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee receives Royal Society of Canada Award

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee receives Royal Society of Canada Award

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee has won the Royal Society of Canada’s “Kitty Newman Memorial Award” for outstanding contributions from an emerging scholar in philosophy. Dr. Brownlee is the leading expert in two areas of moral and political philosophy: a) the philosophy of social human rights, loneliness, and belonging, and b) the ethics of conviction and civil […]

Two Philosophy faculty members elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Two Philosophy faculty members elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Two UBC Department of Philosophy professors have been announced by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as new Fellows and as new Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Dr. Margaret Schabas has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Schabas, a leading scholar in the history and philosophy […]

APA’s 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest

APA’s 2021 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest

We are pleased to announce that Kimberley Brownlee was awarded the prize for the Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest. Prof. Brownlee holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. She received her DPhil from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). Her current work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social […]