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Vicky Chen

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Winston Tingle

Winston Tingle
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Aleks Bojanic

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Sophie Daum

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Arman Amir

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Elle Savage

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Sam Tahmasebi

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Elle Cunnings

Elle Cunnings
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Isabelle Whittall

Isabelle Whittall
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Bora Barut

Bora Barut
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Philosophy Students Association

We are the UBC Philosophy Students Association! The purpose of our club is to provide a place for the philosophically inclined to discourse on life's biggest questions.

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Study with Us every Monday 3pm-7pm in BUCH B216 - students of any program are welcome!

PHIL Cafe

"Do we have free will?"

"Does death make life meaningless?"

"Is morality objective?"

"Do animals deserve moral consideration?"

Discuss these questions at our weekly PHIL Cafe discussion groups. No experience required. Moderate, participate, or just listen in! Questions will be posted every week on our Instagram and newsletter. Follow us or join the mailing list to keep up to date on all events!

Time: Tuesdays 12pm-2pm

The Dialectic

Every month we invite a faculty member from the Philosophy Department to present us with a topic they are researching.

Our January Dialectic...

The UBC Philosophy Students' Association is excited to bring you our first Dialectic of the year with Professor Sylvia Berryman!
 
Date: Friday, January 24th
Time: 5pm-7pm
Location: BUCH D201
 
Topic: Toxic Virtues and Imperialism
Virtue ethics has become a popular research programme in philosophy today, but how do we know we have the right understanding of the virtues?  Worse yet, what if the virtues we value are actively harmful?  I’ll be looking at a historical case of a society that turned away from its own values—Victorian Britain—to see what we can learn.  We’ll read some short ’texts’—two songs and a painting—together to look for their virtue messaging in the context of nineteenth century imperialism.
 
Sylvia Berryman - Department of Philosophy
Dr. Sylvia Berryman studied ancient Greek philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. As a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in King’s College London, she worked as editorial assistant for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project. She joined the department at UBC in 2004, following five years with the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. She has received fellowships and grants from Center for Hellenic Studies, National Humanities Center, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, National Science Foundation and SSHRC. Her research interests center on ancient Greek natural philosophy and the impact of Greek science on natural philosophy: published papers consider the philosophical reception of optics, mechanics, medicine, pneumatics, as well as theories of mixture, qualities, causation and teleology.
 
We are honoured to hear about Dr. Berryman research!

Some Past Dialectic topics:

"Why Be Rational?" with Dr. Christopher Stephens

"The Problem of God in David Hume" with Dr. Anders Kraal

"The Episteme of Sex" with Dr. Willow Verkerk

Pub Nights!

Our monthly Pub Nights are a great way to meet fellow student interested in philosophical topics and questions! An RSVP link is posted in advance of every pub night - reserve your spot(s) by filling out the form!

JANUARY PUB NIGHT 

Time: Friday, January 24th @ 8pm

Location: Bimini's Since 1975 (2010 W 4th Ave Vancouver)

RSVP HERE!

Contact Us

Our Team

Vicky Chen

Vicky Chen
Co-President
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Winston Tingle

Winston Tingle
Co-President
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Aleks Bojanic

Aleks Bojanic
VP Coordinator
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Sophie Daum

Sophie Daum
VP Coordinator
Email

Arman Amir

Arman Amir
VP Coordinator
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Elle Savage

Elle Savage
VP Marketing
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Sam Tahmasebi

Sam Tahmasebi
VP Marketing
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Elle Cunnings

Elle Cunnings
Treasurer
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Isabelle Whittall

Isabelle Whittall
VP Academic
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Bora Barut

Bora Barut
VP Academic
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