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Vargas from USF to UC San Diego

Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco and a leading contributor to the philosophy of action (esp. issues about free will) as well as Latin American philosophy, has accepted a senior offer from the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, to start in summer 2017 (Vargas also has interests in philosophy of law).   With Vargas and Dana Nelkin, UCSD will become a leading choice for students interested in issues in philosophy of action and free will.

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