UCSD Department of Philosophy

Since its founding in 1963, the UCSD Philosophy Department has grown to become a nationally ranked department, offering excellent instruction and supervision at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Faculty have a broad range of research interests, with special concentrations in the philosophy of science, ethics and political philosophy, history of philosophy, and epistemology and metaphysics.

The department is strongly committed to interdisciplinary work in philosophy, which graduate students can pursue through joint doctoral studies in the Science Studies Program and in the Department of Cognitive Science. The department has close ties to many other departments and programs on campus including History, Classical Studies, Psychology, Political Science, and the Division of Biological Sciences. Graduates of our Ph.D. program have been successfully placed in top departments across the country and abroad.

Philosophy faculty have demonstrated their skill and dedication as teachers by winning many university-wide teaching awards. Among our current faculty are a MacArthur Fellow and the recipients of numerous competitive research fellowships.

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^New Pat Churchland appears on the Charlie Rose Show: Brain Series
^New Michael Tiboris wins postdoctoral fellowship from Spencer Foundation
^New Gila Sher appointed editor-in-chief at the journal Synthese
Tenure Track Faculty position OPEN FOR RECRUITMENT
Richard Arneson appointed new Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy!
Christian Wuthrich wins Lauener Prize for Up-and-Coming Philosophers 2012
Jonathan Cohen receives Honorable Mention for 2011 APA Book Prize
Julius Syvanen was selected as the recipient of the 2011 Eric Paul Allison Memorial Prize Fellowship
Commemorative Newsletter Spring 2011
Pat Churchland - The Evolution of Human Altruism - Understanding our Brain and Social Behaviors, Trade and Markets and Cooperation
Neurophilosophy pioneer Pat Churchland publishes Braintrust
Tarun Menon, Philosophy graduate student, is one of only two winners division-wide for a UC Humanities Research Institution (HRI) Dissertation Year Fellowship
Congratulations to the following awardees of 2011-12 DAH Arts & Humanities Initiative Awards: faculty - William Bechtel, Dana Nelkin, Donald Rutherford; graduate students - Marta Halina, Joyce Havstad, Per Milam
Congratulations to Craig Callender, awardee of FQXi Time and Physics grant

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