The Philosophy Department at UConn is internationally recognized as a top place to do research in a wide variety of areas in philosophy, including: Aesthetics, Africana Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Epistemology (Formal and Social), Existentialism and Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, Metaphysics, Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Philosophies of Mind and Language, Philosophies of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Human Sciences, Philosophy of Race and Racism, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy, and more.
The department is also a leader in public philosophy, with members addressing topics such as the ethics of artificial intelligence, language and genocide, political epistemology, and shifting the geography of reason. Four peer-review journals are headquartered here: Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophia, Philosophy and Global Affairs, and, as of 2023, Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Recent PhDs have secured positions at St. Andrews University, Oxford University, Notre Dame University, the University of Oslo, Kuwait University, Gonzaga University, the University of Delhi, Lewis & Clark College, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the University of Memphis, Grand Valley State University, the University of California at Merced, Fairfield University, the University of Iowa, the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Konstanz, Monash University, Yonsei University, the University of Tokyo, Muhlenberg College, Sam Houston State University, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of California-Merced, TPX Communications, Cambridge Semantics, and Cycorp. Our doctoral students are a global community from Argentina, China, Egypt, India, Ireland, Turkey, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom, as well as the U.S.
The undergraduate major and minor has a stellar record of preparing students for advanced study in a variety of professional schools and disciplines, in addition to philosophy, and careers ranging from the entertainment industry to nonprofits, private, and public service.
Our department is also an attractive research community for international scholars, several of whom came on Fulbright scholarships from Argentina, Bulgaria, France, and Senegal, and others on special fellowships from Australia, Brazil, and China.
Featured Lectures on Philosophy
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Upcoming Events
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3/22
Logic Colloquium: James Walsh (NYU)
Logic Colloquium: James Walsh (NYU)
Friday, March 22nd, 2024
02:00 PM
MCHU 201 & Zoom
Join us for a talk by James Walsh (NYU)!
“Is the consistency operator canonical?”
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3/25
Yuhan Liang - Dissertation Defense
Yuhan Liang - Dissertation Defense
Monday, March 25th, 2024
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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3/27
UCHI Talk: Julian Schloeder on the Inauthentic Self
UCHI Talk: Julian Schloeder on the Inauthentic Self
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Homer Babbidge Library
Although these are common phrases, it is somewhat unclear what it is to “be something one is not” or to “not be one’s authentic self.” There is, after all, no other source of selfhood than who one actually is. One also owes to no-one a particular way of being other than to oneself. But given that therefore the self is its own’s only yardstick, how can there be an inauthentic self? Towards an answer, I explore a conception of selfhood as meaning-making. One’s self-narrative creates meaning from bare facticity and is hence is not just something we tell about ourselves, but it is how we articulate our very self. Self-narratives can apprehend themselves as more or less coherent meaning-makers, so a self can fall short of its own standards. From this theoretical standpoint, I explore how stereotypes inflict damage onto selves by standing in the way of meaning-making, and how coming out as a queer identity is to create meaning from incoherence.
Julian J. Schlöder is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. They studied philosophy, mathematics, and logic at the Universities of Bonn and Amsterdam, receiving their doctorate in 2018. They are a co-author of the monograph Reasoning with Attitude (Oxford UP, 2023).
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3/28
ECOM Spotlight Series: Aliyar Ozercan
ECOM Spotlight Series: Aliyar Ozercan
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
11:00 AM
Zoom
Aliyar Ozercan (UConn, Philosophy) is going to give a talk on “Prepositional Attitudes.”
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3/29
Logic Colloquium: Ainsley May (UC Irvine)
Logic Colloquium: Ainsley May (UC Irvine)
Friday, March 29th, 2024
02:00 PM
Zoom
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4/2
Dissertation Defense: Katrina Kish
Dissertation Defense: Katrina Kish
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
TBD
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News & Announcements
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- Lewis Gordon: Fordham University’s 2024 Philosophy Suarez LecturerPosted on February 26, 2024
- Tracy Llanera: Featured in The Daily CampusPosted on February 26, 2024
- Tracy Llanera: Marginal Actors in Extremist MovementsPosted on February 21, 2024