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The Philosophy Department congratulates the Class of 2023! We celebrated our Philosophy majors, minors, and PhD graduates at our departmental reception and awards ceremony on June 17, 2023. Check out…

We are pleased to announce that Jenny Yi-Chen Wu has published the paper “A Defense of Impurist Permissivism” in the journal Episteme.

We are pleased to announce that Saraliza Anzaldúa defended her dissertation, “Monsters and Mestizos: Mestizaje as White Supremacy and the Monsterization of Indigeneity,” and it has been accepted. Her Ph.D….

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul C. Taylor will officially join our faculty in July 2023 as the inaugural Presidential Professor of Philosophy. Professor Taylor works in race…

We are excited to announce that Professor Vida Yao will officially join our faculty in July 2023. Professor Yao works in ethics, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. She has written…

We are pleased to announce that Piera Maurizio defended her dissertation, “The Epistemic, Moral, and Political Significance of an Open Mind”, and it has been accepted. Her Ph.D. degree will…

We are pleased to announce that Melissa Retwka defended her dissertation, “The Value of Recognition.”, and it has been accepted. Her PhD was awarded on December 9, 2022.Congratulations to Dr….

We are pleased to announce that Kim Johnston defended her dissertation, “Contradictions and the Structure of Reasoning.”, and it has been accepted. Her PhD was awarded on December 9, 2022….

Herbert Morris was a seminal figure in the tradition of research and teaching in law and philosophy at UCLA, a tradition that he participated in for seven decades and that…

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Kareem Khalifa has officially joined our faculty. Kareem has many research interests but specializes in general philosophy of science, theory of knowledge, and…