We're excited to share the upcoming EXTRA CREDIT lecture series, featuring our own Dr. Edward Slingerland, who will be speaking on "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" on Sunday, June 21 at China Cloud Studios. Join us for inspiring learning.

Join us on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 3:15 p.m. in BUCH A102 for a philosophy talk by Professor Lisa Herzog (University of Groningen), who will present “Realizing justice in a steady state economy” buff.ly/OInEqqx

Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Ichikawa on receiving the 2026 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award! buff.ly/cns7aop

This year’s Humanities Alumni Spring Mixer will be on Tuesday, May 5 from 6–8 PM at The Loft at Earls Yaletown! Join us for an evening of conversations and connections with fellow alumni and faculty. RSVP here: buff.ly/Sctgf0Z

Dr. Stefan Lukits has recently published a paper titled “Apology and Forgiveness.” You can access it here:

Join us on Friday, April 10, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Rachel Barney (University of Toronto), presenting “Craft and the Utopia of Work” buff.ly/zBbPlSo

Congratulations to Avontay Williams on receiving the UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award! buff.ly/CrNOFkd

Join us today at 2:00 PM in BUCH A103 for the UBC Undergraduate Philosophy Info Session! Hear from Professors Dominic Alford-Duguid, Fatema Amijee, and Cat Prueitt on philosophy’s connections across disciplines and pathways through the UBC Philosophy program. All students welcome! buff.ly/Uoc0Aod

Professor Kimberley Brownlee and our graduate student Alyssa Izatt have co-authored a new paper, “Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care,” published in Ethics. buff.ly/pZE5cJV

Our graduate student, Alyssa Izatt, has published a new article titled “Will I Regret This? Should I Care? On Regret and Wellbeing” in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. buff.ly/wc2Wpqo

Congratulations to Professor Fatema Amijee on being awarded the UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship.

Join us on Thursday, March 19th to connect with alumni and explore the career opportunities a Philosophy degree offers. Meet our alumni and enjoy catered refreshments. All students welcome! 👉 RSVP now! buff.ly/NYO40uJ

Join us on Friday, March 13, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Cat Prueitt, presenting “Ways of Being and Relevant Alternatives.” buff.ly/3LOf8SH

Efthimios Nasiopoulos, who graduated from philosophy honours last year, will be speaking at the UBC TEDx event on Sunday: looks like he will be speaking about his UBC experience! buff.ly/GSt9Hz5

Join us on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) on “Principles of Justice for a Sustainable Economy.” buff.ly/stgLbau

Listen to Professor Carrie Jenkins on CBC Radio discussing “What Is Love?” — a thoughtful conversation on the meaning of love. Tune in here: buff.ly/FTl5m50

Professor Carrie Jenkins has co-authored a new piece with Carla Nappi on Lily Allen’s new album and the issues it raises. Read it here:

Join us on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 3:00 PM in BUCH A202 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Professor Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) on “Principles of Justice for a Sustainable Economy.” buff.ly/stgLbau

Professor Fatema Amijee has edited "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet", recently published by Bloomsbury. buff.ly/QdouCcB

Professor Fatema Amijee has recently published a new article titled “Whence Original Inquiry?”

Professor Jonathan Ichikawa has released a newly revised version of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on 'The Analysis of Knowledge'. buff.ly/K5RlMOI

Join us for a Philosophy Colloquium on Friday, Feb 13 at 3PM in BUCH A202 with Dr. Samiksha Goyal (Simon Fraser University) on “Gandhi, Williams, and the Problem of Interest-Relativity.” buff.ly/CtHcopy

Congratulations to Professor Evan Thompson on being awarded the 2026 Mind–Matter Prize by the Society for Mind–Matter Research. buff.ly/tTwqOsO

Professor Catherine Prueitt recently published an article titled “Reimagining pain as an allostatic imperative: perspectives from contemplative traditions” in Neuroscience of Consciousness. buff.ly/oVoK5hn

A new paper by Professor Carrie Jenkins, titled “The A Priori: What’s It All About?”, has just been published in The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology. buff.ly/yoLJfXo

Join us on Friday, Dec 5, 2025 at 3PM in BRCS 1030 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Prof. Holly K. Andersen (Simon Fraser University) on “Ontic injustice in modelling: uprooting the value-free ideal.”

Dr. Willow Verkerk has recently co-edited a book titled Homo Mimeticus III, which has now been published. Book details: buff.ly/ngC9rkc You can read the accompanying interview here: buff.ly/S8PgOYs

Congratulations to Dr. Evan Thompson, who was recently named a UBC Distinguished University Scholar! buff.ly/D0kniM3

Congratulations to the UBC Philosophy Class of 2025! Each undergraduate and graduate student has worked tremendously hard and has accomplished so much. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

Congratulations to Prof. Alison Wylie on her renewal as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of the Social and Historical Sciences. buff.ly/93hkQ8j

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee’s work on loneliness, from her book 'Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms', was discussed in the philosophy podcast Overthink. Listen here:

Dr. Kimberley Brownlee delivered the first Uehiro Lecture at Oxford University last Thursday on the topic “Male Reproductive Dependency.” buff.ly/bWrZfbF The next lecture, “Societal and Specific Dependency,” will take place on November 13. Learn more buff.ly/8ILTHuK

Join us on Friday, Dec 5, 2025 at 3PM in BRCS 1030 for a Philosophy Colloquium with Prof. Holly K. Andersen (Simon Fraser University) on “Ontic injustice in modelling: uprooting the value-free ideal.”

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

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.

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

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 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!

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...

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. Photo Ger McCarthy www.germac.ie

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 globalphilosophyofreligion.com

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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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