2023 Brian Laetz Graduate Essay Prize – Steven Diggin
Congratulations to Steven Diggin as the recipient of the UBC Department of Philosophy’s 2023 Brian Laetz Graduate Essay Prize for his essay, “Trumping Defeat and the Structure of Normative Explanation.”
2023 Don Brown Graduate Student Teaching Award – Alex Bryant
Congratulations to Alex as the recipient of the UBC Department of Philosophy’s 2023 Don Brown Graduate Student Teach Award.
John Woods Essay Prize 2022W
We are pleased to announce that Alexander Macqueen has won the 2022W John Woods Essay Prize for their essay, “Avicenna and modal logic/Necessity and Contingency in Ibn Sīna”. Congratulations, Alexander!
Adam Morton Essay Prize 2022W
We are pleased to announce that Erfan Hakim has won the 2022W Adam Morton Essay Prize for their essay, “An Examination of the Positive Role of Believing in an Illusion of Free Will”. Congratulations, Erfan!
David Ricardo Essay Prize 2022W
Jesse DeCoste has won the David Ricardo Essay Prize for the best essay in the course on the History and Philosophy of Economics (PHIL 363/ECON 319). His essay “On the Origins of Friedman’s Quantity Theory of Money” argues that Milton Friedman had misrepresented his scholarly debts and that he also drew upon the work of […]
UBC Philosophy: 2022W Student-Directed Seminar
UBC’s Student-Directed Seminar (SDS) program “provides upper year undergraduate students (in 3rd year or later) the opportunity to propose, coordinate, and lead their own 3-credit seminar class with a small group of peers on a topic not currently offered at UBC-Vancouver.” In 2022W term 2, UBC Philosophy’s honours student, Luc Angelini, led a successful seminar examining the […]
Applying for Undergraduate Academic Assistant (UAA) Position
Job Title: Software Engineer – Undergraduate Academic Assistant (UAA) VP/Faculty: Arts Department: Philosophy Full/Part Time: 20 hrs/week Desired Start Date: April 1, 2023 Job End Date: May 31, 2024 Job Summary The Department of Philosophy is looking for motivated Student Software Engineers to work on the world’s largest comprehensive online quantitative and qualitative database of […]
2022 Don Brown Graduate Student Teaching Award – Katherine Cheng
Congratulations to Katherine as the recipient of the UBC Department of Philosophy’s 2022 Don Brown Graduate Student Teach Award!
Career Nights – Sharing nice memories
Dear all, On April 4th we hosted the: “Career Nights event” which was a real success. We received very good feedback and thank you to all who participated in this event and the coordinators, professors, alumni and moderator who made this event possible. We would like to share with you a few photos we captured […]
Career Nights – April 4th, 2022 – Registration on site!
Dear students, We are thrilled to let you know that today we are hosting the in-person career night event where you will have the chance to connect, ask and hear some tips from our UBC philosophy alumni. We are lucky to have a great panel tonight, so this is your chance to come and start […]