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It is with great sadness that we report that our graduate alumnus Tim Hall has died.  Tim entered the graduate program in 1992 and finished his PhD in 2003. He…

We are pleased to announce that Laura Gillespie has filed her dissertation, “On the Possibility and Permissibility of Interpersonal Punishment,” and it has been accepted. Her PhD degree will be…

We’re pleased to announce that Kevin Lande is the winner of the 2016-17 Carnap Prize for his paper entitled “Parts of Perception.” More information regarding the prize can be found here and a…

Congratulations to Helen Lee, a second-year philosophy major, for her prize-winning presentation “Truth-Telling and Humanity: What Is Our Duty to Tell the Truth?” at the UCLA Humanities Dialogues Symposium, held…

The Kalish Prize is given annually in honor of Donald Kalish for intellectual excellence in one or more promising undergraduate student. Congratulations to our 2016-17 winners Tiffany Han, Shushan Ginosyan, Kartik…

Seana Shiffrin delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values in late April at UC Berkeley.  More information is available here: https://tannerlectures.berkeley.edu/2016-2017-lecture-series/

Congratulations to David Friedell who has just been appointed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. David completed his PhD at UCLA in 2014, and…

Congratulations to Sabine Tsuruda who has just won a prestigious Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship.  It will provide her with a year of funding to complete her dissertation entitled Moral Agency and…

Congratulations to Gabbrielle Johnson who has been chosen to receive UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award.  The award, which is given to only five teaching assistants on campus each year, recognizes extraordinary…

Congratulations to Will Reckner who will be beginning a tenure-track position at the University of Richmond starting Fall 2017.  Will is completing a dissertation on “The Form of Law: Practical…