April 18, 2019
…There Be Open Borders? Department of Philosophy distinguished lecture series brings timely—and ethical—discussion of immigration to campus With more than 258 million migrants living outside their country of birth, the United Nations Foundation says the number of international migrants has grown by 49% since 2000, and nearly half are women.…
April 15, 2022
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) and Philosophy professor David Danks to serve on the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
October 23, 2014
…Program for Women in Philosophy took this photo and had copies printed out for the organizers and department. Gabriela Azevedo, who was interviewed for this story, is holding the exclamation point. UC San Diego Philosophers Work to Fix Discipline’s Gender Disparities It’s no secret that in philosophy, around the country…
April 11, 2019
UC San Diego Department of Philosophy professor Manuel Vargas and Santiago Amaya of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia have been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to advance understanding of agency, free will and responsibility.
August 22, 2018
…Lakatos Award, given annually for outstanding contributions to the philosophy of science in the form of a book. Callender’s “What Makes Time Special?” tackles the conflict between our intuitive model of time as flowing and the “static” time of fundamental physics.
July 18, 2019
Helping to address the significant gender imbalance in the field of philosophy, the UC San Diego Department of Philosophy will once again host the Summer Program for Women in Philosophy July 22 – Aug. 2.
March 13, 2017
The University of California San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities is welcoming its first visiting artist under the newly established Roghieh Chehre-Azad Distinguished Professorship. “Parissa,” Iran’s most distinguished female vocalist, will visit UC San Diego during the first part of spring quarter to share her deep knowledge of the…
April 14, 2016
…these skills, the division’s departments of music, theatre and dance, and visual arts invite undergraduate applicants to submit arts portfolios showcasing their creativity. Since 2014, when the Arts Portfolio Option was initiated in partnership with the Office of Admissions on campus, applications to the Division of Arts and Humanities have…
January 17, 2017
…that approach is the Department of History’s Distinguished Professor Paul Pickowicz and Department of Literature Chair Yingjin Zhang, who have coedited the new book, “Filming the Everyday: Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First Century China” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). The book includes essays about a Chinese film group led by Wu Wenguang,…
May 1, 2014
…casa es su casa” philosophy, the RRC is open to all. Begun several years ago as a student-run collective dedicated to cultivating diversity on campus, the center will host activities and events to build a sense of collectivity. Students will also have the opportunity to link theory and research in…
