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Congratulations to Ayana Samuel 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 Jordan Wallace-Wolf defended his dissertation, “Mental Privacy,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded on December 18, 2020.

We are pleased to announce that Bill Kowalsky defended his dissertation, “Confidence and Objective Probability Signaling in Perceptual Systems,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D. degree will be awarded…

We are pleased to announce that Milo Crimi defended his dissertation, “Destroying the Modes of Signifying: Anti-Modism in Late Medieval Philosophy of Language,” and it has been accepted. His Ph.D….

The winner of the 2019-2020 Logic and Language Prize is Ian Boon for his essay “Quantification, Content, and Composition.” Established in honor of Rudolf Carnap and David Kaplan, the prize…

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…