Graduate Student News & Blog
Our graduate students are actively engaged both within the academy and beyond. Keep up with news of their activities and achievements, and get to know their perspectives on various philosophical issues in this News & Blog feed. To request a news announcement or submit a blog post proposal, current students and alumni should contact graduate adviser Britta Anson (brittama@uw.edu).
As a community college student in San Diego, Paul Tubig was drawn to philosophy. Now a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Washington, Tubig finds himself once again spending time at a community college. It feels different this time around.
“Having attended a community college, it’s been interesting to re-enter that setting as an aspiring professor and PhD student who has been acculturated in the university context,” Tubig says.
Tubig’s return to community college is through a... Read more
Doctoral Candidate Blake Hereth was chosen by the APA for their member spotlight interview. Blake works primarily in the ethics of self-defense and philosophy of religion and is co-editor of The Lost Sheep: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, Disability, and Animals in Philosophy of Religion (Routledge, forthcoming), which addresses underexplored issues in philosophy of religion.... Read more
Doctoral candidate Paul Tubig organized the first ever Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) on April 14, 2019. The Freedom Education Project of Puget Sound (FEPPS) and University of Puget Sound teams discussed questions such as: Should we bring back species that have been driven to extinction? Are laws allowing terminally ill children to choose euthanasia morally defensible? Is China’s social credit system, which assigns a social credit score based... Read more
On Saturday, May 4, 2019 philosophy doctoral candidate Julio Covarrubias gave a talk on "Setting the Record Straight: The Latin American Mind in Global Context" at TEDxUofW 2018-2019. Julio's research focuses on Latinx identity and racial oppression. Currently, he is writing a dissertation on the ethics and politics of inter- and intra-personal relationships in the wake of colonial violence.
The event took place... Read more
Paul Tubig, a 2018-2019 Mellon Fellow with the Reaching New Publics program at the Simpson Center for the Humanities, has been exploring connections between the University of Washington and the Seattle Colleges this year. Previously, Paul has blogged for the Simpson Center about the question "What Kind of Academics Should We Be?"
In a new guest blog post, Paul describes the "... Read more
The Department of Philosophy is proud to announce that doctoral candidate Sam Sumpter has been named as one of the University of Washington 2019 Husky 100! The Husky 100 recognizes University of Washington students in all areas of study who are "making the most of their time at the UW" by "actively connect[ing]... Read more
Congratulations to Julio Covarrubias on being awarded the American Philosophical Association's 2018 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought for his essay, "Letting Go of Mestizaje: Settler Colonialism and Latin American/Latinx Philosophy."
From the APA press release:
The APA committee on Hispanics sponsors this annual prize, which includes a $500... Read more
Philosophy doctoral candidate Paul Tubig is a 2018-2019 Mellon Fellow for Reaching New Publics, exploring community colleges as important pieces within the academic ecosystem both in their own right and in their partnership with large research institutions like the University of Washington. In a guest post in the Simpson Center for the Humanities' Reimagining the PhD Blog, Paul asks "... Read more
We are pleased to announce that Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (PhD 2015) will join the University of Windsor in Ontario as an assistant professor in Autumn 2018. There, she will be part of the inaugural cohort of Canada's President's Indigenous Peoples Scholars (PIPS), a program that the University of Windsor created in response to the Canadian government's Truth and Reconciliation Act. The... Read more
The Department of Philosophy continued its tradition this year of celebrating our award recipients with an Awards Reception held in our department home Savery Hall. Awards were given to recipients by faculty members who shared personal experiences they have had with the award recipients in the classroom and during office hours to the delight of family and friends.
Thank you to our many alumni and friends who make it possible for us to support our undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty... Read more
