Join us on Friday, March 13, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Cat Prueitt, presenting “Ways of Being and Relevant Alternatives.” buff.ly/3LOf8SH
Efthimios Nasiopoulos, who graduated from philosophy honours last year, will be speaking at the UBC TEDx event on Sunday: looks like he will be speaking about his UBC experience! buff.ly/GSt9Hz5
Join us on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) on “Principles of Justice for a Sustainable Economy.” buff.ly/stgLbau
Listen to Professor Carrie Jenkins on CBC Radio discussing “What Is Love?” — a thoughtful conversation on the meaning of love.
Tune in here: buff.ly/FTl5m50
Professor Carrie Jenkins has co-authored a new piece with Carla Nappi on Lily Allen’s new album and the issues it raises.
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Join us on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) on “Principles of Justice for a Sustainable Economy.” buff.ly/stgLbau
Professor Fatema Amijee has edited "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet", recently published by Bloomsbury. buff.ly/QdouCcB
Professor Fatema Amijee has recently published a new article titled “Whence Original Inquiry?”
Professor Jonathan Ichikawa has released a newly revised version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'The Analysis of Knowledge'. buff.ly/K5RlMOI
Join us for a Philosophy Colloquium on Friday, Feb 13 at 3PM in BUCH A202 with Dr. Samiksha Goyal (Simon Fraser University) on “Gandhi, Williams, and the Problem of Interest-Relativity.” buff.ly/CtHcopy
Congratulations to Professor Evan Thompson on being awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize by the Society for Mind–Matter Research. buff.ly/tTwqOsO
Professor Catherine Prueitt recently published an article titled “Reimagining pain as an allostatic imperative: perspectives from contemplative traditions” in Neuroscience of Consciousness. buff.ly/oVoK5hn
A new paper by Professor Carrie Jenkins, titled “The A Priori: What’s It All About?”, has just been published in The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology. buff.ly/yoLJfXo
Join us on Friday, Dec 5, 2025 at 3PM in BRCS 1030 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Prof. Holly K. Andersen (Simon Fraser University) on “Ontic injustice in modelling: uprooting the value-free ideal.”
Dr. Willow Verkerk has recently co-edited a book titled Homo Mimeticus III, which has now been published.
Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc
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Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! buff.ly/D0kniM3
Congratulations to the UBC Philosophy Class of 2025! Each undergraduate and graduate student has worked tremendously hard and has accomplished so much. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
Congratulations to Prof. Alison Wylie on her renewal as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences. buff.ly/93hkQ8j
Dr. Kimberley Brownlee’s work on loneliness, from her book 'Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms', was discussed in the philosophy podcast Overthink. Listen here:
Dr. Kimberley Brownlee delivered the first Uehiro Lecture at Oxford University last Thursday on the topic “Male Reproductive Dependency.” buff.ly/bWrZfbF
The next lecture, “Societal and Specific Dependency,” will take place on November 13. Learn more buff.ly/8ILTHuK
Join us on Friday, Dec 5, 2025 at 3PM in BRCS 1030 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Prof. Holly K. Andersen (Simon Fraser University) on “Ontic injustice in modelling: uprooting the value-free ideal.”
Christopher Mole will be in conversation with the artist Eli Bornowski, at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery (950 E Cordova St), at 6pm on 5 November. Information is available here. buff.ly/EayvT7z
Professor Fatema Amijee has recently published an article entitled “An Islamic Foundation for Human Rights.” buff.ly/gBlttI7
Professor Carrie Jenkins recently published an article titled 'Hermeneutic decentering' in The Philosophical Quarterly: buff.ly/bkrsLVP
Join us for a Philosophy Colloquium with Dr. Brian Burkhart from the University of Oklahoma on 'Indigenous Decolonial Climate Hope through the Land' - Friday, October 17, 2025, at 3 PM in BUCH A102.
Participants are warmly invited to attend Simon Fraser University’s second annual Asian Philosophy Workshop, taking place on October 25–26, 2025. UBC Philosophy Professor Evan Thompson and PhD student Emily Lawson will be presenting.
Our graduate student, Emily Lawson, has a new publication titled "A Dynamic Approach to Compulsive Fantasy: Constraints and Creativity in 'Maladaptive Daydreaming'," co-authored with two researchers from the Psychology Department at UBC. buff.ly/IDkcHlq
Join us for a Philosophy Colloquium talk on "The Frog and Mouse Battle: Logic, Politics, and Justice" with Dr. Patrick Girard from the University of Auckland on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 3:00 PM in BRSC 1030.
Join us for a Philosophy Colloquium talk on "The Frog and Mouse Battle: Logic, Politics, and Justice" with Dr. Patrick Girard from the University of Auckland on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 3:00 PM in BRSC 1030.
Join us for the first talk in the 2025W Colloquium series featuring Prof. David Liebesman (University of Calgary) & Prof. Ofra Magidor (University of Oxford) on ‘Polysemy & Observations in Linguistics’ – Sept 5 at 3 PM, BUCH A102.
