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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

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Brian Burkhart (University of Oklahoma) - Department of Philosophy Title: Indigenous Decolonial Climate Hope through the Land Abstract: In the face of climate despair and environmental collapse, Indigenous peoples offer a vital perspective that reframes both the…

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.

2nd Asian Philosophy Workshop: October 25-26, 2025 F T

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

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Patrick Girard (University of Auckland) - Department of Philosophy Title: The Frog and Mouse Battle Logic, politics and justice Abstract: The 1920s saw the rise of modern logic: Hilbert’s formalist programme, Gödel’s theorems, and Brouwer’s intuitionism offered…

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.

Philosophy Colloquium – Dr. Patrick Girard (University of Auckland) - Department of Philosophy Title: The Frog and Mouse Battle Logic, politics and justice Abstract: The 1920s saw the rise of modern logic: Hilbert’s formalist programme, Gödel’s theorems, and Brouwer’s intuitionism offered…

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.

Join us for the Imagine UBC Welcome Back Event! We’ll be exploring some Big Questions — feel free to bring your own questions, big or small. phil.cms.arts.ubc.ca?p=20283

When: September 2, 1:30 - 2:30 pm
Where: Buchanan Block D, BUCH D322

Everyone is welcome!

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Canada 2025 | Pacific Finalists Congratulations to the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2025 Pacific finalists

Congratulations to our Philosophy alumni, Husein Rahemtulla, COO & Co-founder of FreshPrep, for being named a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2025 Pacific award!

Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa recently published an article titled "Skeptical doubt, principal bases, and heuristics and rational norms" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Justice considerations in climate research - Nature Climate Change Justice issues are integral to a variety of climate science and policy processes. This Perspective provides a framework, based on philosophical theory, to explain key justice concepts and how they…

Congratulations to our philosophy grad, Dr. Kian Mintz-Woo, now Senior Lecturer at University College Cork, was awarded UCC’s Early-Stage Researcher of the Year for his 2024 work. “The philosophy training and mentorship I received at UBC was invaluable,” he says.

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The panel discussion on the epidemic of loneliness, featuring Prof. Carrie Jenkins, was recently broadcast on CBC Ideas.

Congratulations to Dr. Fatema Amijee for receiving Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grants!

Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grants
- Modesty in Islam

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Our graduate student, Ashley Lindsley-Kim, has co-authored an article titled "Pregnancy, Caregiving, and a Supposed Obligation to Gestate," now published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
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Steven Diggin, Ethical Presuppositions in Narrative Art - PhilPapers Ethical Criticism is the practice of pointing towards a flaw in the ethical content or character of an artwork as a reason why this artwork is aesthetically faulty in some respect. ...

Our PhD graduate, Steven Diggin, has recently published a paper titled "Ethical Presuppositions in Narrative Art" in the British Journal of Aesthetics.

The paper 'I’ll Be the Hero You’re Dreaming Of: Popular Music and the Social Construction of Romantic Love,' co-authored by Prof. Carrie Jenkins, UBC PhD student Jas Heaton, and former UBC MA student Aida Roige, has been published in a volume edited by SFU philosopher Alex King. (buff.ly/H9MOZca)

Du Châtelet’s Rejection of Leibniz’s World Apart Doctrine Leibniz endorses the world apart doctrine, according to which a substanceSubstance is that which is independent of all other things except GodGod. However, I will argue that in what appears to be a…

Professor Fatema Amijee recently published an article titled "Du Châtelet’s Rejection of Leibniz’s World Apart Doctrine."

Congratulations to Professor Dominic McIver Lopes on being awarded the 2025 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement and contribution, alongside Professor Samantha Matherne of Harvard University. www.apaonline.org/page/2025pri...

All the Lonely People: The Search for Belonging in an Uncertain World - Community Engagement June 4, 2025 | What does loneliness look like in our increasingly connected world and what can we do about it? Join an interdisciplinary panel of UBC researchers from health, economics, philosophy…

Join an in-depth panel discussion with Dr. Carrie Jenkins, one of the panelists at All the Lonely People: The Search for Belonging in an Uncertain World on June 4, 2025. Register here:

Professor Carrie Jenkins’ Sad Love has recently been published in Arabic, marking the book’s second translation following the Spanish edition released in 2023.

Prof. Jonathan Ichikawa recently published a paper titled 'Consent Theory as Hermeneutical Injustice.'

Congratulations to our fellow graduate students Alexandra Jewell, Daniel Saunders, Kinley Gillette, and Steven Diggin on successfully defending their PhD dissertations! philosophy.ubc.ca/news/phd-dis...

UBC philosophy professor's research cited in U.S. Supreme Court decision - UBC News A 22-year-old philosophy paper by a UBC professor just helped the U.S. Supreme Court decide a major gun case.

Professor Ori Simchen's research cited in a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Talk About Lonely (with Filmmaker Q&A) Charles Wilkinson and the team that produced films like OIL SANDS KARAOKE and HAIDA GWAII: On The Edge Of The World have turned their attention to an issue over forty percent of the population…

Professor Kimberley Brownlee and Professor Carrie Jenkins are featured in Talk About Lonely, screening at the Rio on April 26th.

Carrie Jenkins: "Monogamie ist Beziehungsminimalismus" Die klassische, monogame Liebe sollte keine Sonderstellung in unserer Gesellschaft einnehmen, sagt die Philosophin Carrie Jenkins. Dann wären am Ende alle glücklicher.

A featured interview with Professor Carrie Jenkins has just been published in Die Zeit.

Humanities Spring Alumni Mixer Fourwaves - Humanities Spring Alumni Mixer

We are pleased to invite alumni from the Department of Philosophy to UBC's 2025 Humanities Alumni Spring Mixer. Get your ticket and join on May 6 from 6–8 PM at Earls Yaletown for an evening of conversations and connections.

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Philosophy Talk - Professor Mariam Thalos: "Reasoning in Context" - Department of Philosophy Title: “Reasoning in Context” Abstract: The concept of intelligence has been difficult to get one’s arms around. Surprisingly, the same can also be said of a wide-scope conception of reasoning. This…

Join us for the Philosophy Talk with Professor Mariam Thalos on March 21 at 3:00 PM in BUCH A203. Don’t miss her insightful talk, "Reasoning in Context."

Congratulations to Dr. Alisabeth Ayars and Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa on receiving their UBC Killam Research Awards. prizes.research.ubc.ca/news-announc...

Dr. Alisabeth Ayars - UBC Killam Research Fellowship
Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa - UBC Killam Research Prize