Category: News
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Nico Orlandi awarded DAAD international guest professorship
Nico Orlandi has been awarded a DAAD international guest professorship at Ruhr University Bochum. Professor Orlandi will teach courses and collaborate on research with Professor Tobias Schlicht in Spring quarter 2026. Congratulations, Nico!
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E. Hande Tuna Named Quinn Fellow at NHC
We are delighted to announce that Emine Hande Tuna has been awarded a prestigious fellowship at the National Humanities Center for the 2025–26 academic year. Selected from a highly competitive pool of 588 applicants, she will join a cohort of 32 distinguished scholars as part of the Center’s forty-eighth class of resident fellows. Professor Tuna has been…
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Welcome to Sara Bernstein, new faculty member and new Philosophy Chair
Sara Bernstein joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department as our new chair on July 1, 2025. Sara specializes in metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of causation, and in related topics in ethics and the law. Sara has additional interests in the metaphysics of time and time travel, and in the metaphysics of feminist theory.
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Welcome to Daniel Nolan, new faculty member
Daniel Nolan joined the faculty in July 2025. Daniel specializes in metaphysics, especially hyperintensionality and the use of impossible worlds to resolve metaphysical problems. Daniel has additional interests in possible worlds, dispositions, states of affairs, universals and particulars, parts and wholes, time and space, the metaphysics of vagueness, and methodology in metaphysics.
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Queer Aɸ Conference held at UCSC
The Queer Analytic Philosophy Conference was held at UCSC April 12-13, 2025. The conference, organized by Caro Flores, Lauren Lyons, and Nico Orlandi, brought together scholars from all over the globe to to discuss analytic philosophy from a queer perspective and strategize about the future. See the program here.