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We are pleased to announce that Kyle Scott is the 2019-2020 winner of the Rudolf and Ina Carnap Prize for his essay entitled “Hannah Arendt on World Alienation.” The prize…

The Gloria Rock Award recognizes outstanding graduating senior philosophy majors from underrepresented groups in philosophy who plan to pursue graduate school in philosophy. Professor Rock completed her dissertation at UCLA…

The Kalish Prize for Intellectual Excellence is given annually in honor of Donald Kalish to promising undergraduate students. Congratulations to our 2019-2020 winners Scott Blomgren, Sophia McMurry, Jiarui Qu, and…

The department wants to acknowledge and express its appreciation and gratitude for the tremendous effort which its Teaching Assistants and Section Leaders have devoted to operating courses online during this…

Congratulations to Tyler Burge who was awarded the distinguished Sanders Lecture by the American Philosophical Association for the first half of 2020. The APA prizes recognize many areas of philosophical…

Congratulations to John Kardosh who has been chosen to receive UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Each year, the award is given to only five teaching assistants on campus and recognizes extraordinary…

We are pleased to announce that Michael Skiles defended his dissertation, “First Principles to Further our Understanding of What is to be Done” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D….

The Yost Prize is given annually in honor of Robert M. Yost for excellent performance in teaching.  Congratulations to our 2018-19 winners Jae Choe and Ally Peabody Smith.

We are pleased to announce that Michael Hansen defended his dissertation, “Worlds Apart: An Interpretation of Leibnizian Perceiving” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded on…

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Lavin defended his dissertation, “Normality Judgments: Structure and Content,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded on September 13,…