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We note with sadness the recent passing of Professor Emeritus Gary Wedeking. The BC, Musqueam and UBC flags at UBC's Life Building are lowered today in remembrance of Professor Wedeking

Modern Thinker Carrie Jenkins was interviewed by the Forman Philosophy Society's Hamza Naseer. Video here:

Jonathan Ichikawa's "Faith and Epistemology" was published (open access!) in the March 2020 issue of Episteme

Congratulations to UBC’s Ethics Bowl team, which put in a valiant effort at the online meet on Saturday, November 7th! Overcoming technical glitches that unfortunately left the team one person short, Robert and Archie re-established UBC’s presence as a force to be reckoned with. Thanks to Jillian for logistical support and to Sylvia and Jordan for co-coaching! Team members Ross, Mandy, Felipe, Diya, Zach and Natasha helped the competitors prepare.

Alison Wylie will speak on February 16 as part of this series on Epistemic Decolonization.

Anders Kraal and Paul Russell are each featured authors in this new book on early modern skepticism

Next term there will be a student-directed seminar on the history of the continentalanalytic split. See details below.

This week UBC's STS Colloquium Series will feature a talk by Trevor Pearce on Experimental Ethics. https://buff.ly/2C8ewzw

Albert Cotugno is writing a paper on the guidance of attention understood as a personal-level process. He brings to bear recent empirical work on affect-biased attention and other implicit sources of salience.