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The Philosophy Department at UConn is internationally recognized as a top place to do research in a wide variety of areas within philosophy, including: Africana Philosophy, Philosophical Logic, the Philosophies of Mind and Language, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Metaphysics, Social Epistemology, Virtue Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Race and Racism, 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 journals are headquartered here: Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy, The Philosophical Forum, and the newly founded Philosophy and Global Affairs.
We have instituted the UConn Assistant Research Professor Program, in which we hire three young faculty for three-year terms devoted to research with a light teaching load.
Recent PhDs have secured positions at St. Andrews University, Oxford University, The Naval Post-Graduate School, the University of Delhi, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the University of Memphis, the University of Iowa, the University of Idaho, the University of Konstanz, Monash University, Yonsei University, Muhlenberg College, Quinnipiac University, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of California-Merced, TPX Communications, Cambridge Semantics, Sam Houston State University, and Cycorp. The current group of graduate students come from Greece, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Canada, South Korea, India, Turkey, Pakistan, Germany, Argentina, and the United Kingdom, as well as the U.S.
Philosophy Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1054 / philosophy@uconn.edu / 1-860-486-4416
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Upcoming Events
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7/13
Deadline to Announce Summer 2022 Dissertation Defense
Deadline to Announce Summer 2022 Dissertation Defense
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus n/a
Announce your oral defense in the University Events Calendar at least two weeks before the date of your defense. Be sure to follow the posting guidelines below. Announcements submitted that do not follow the posting guidelines will be rejected.
If there are difficulties encountered, please email gradschool@uconn.edu with details of the problem.
Click on the Submit Event button in the bottom right corner.
Fill in the following boxes on the screen as indicated below:
Title: Enter Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of (Dissertator’s Name).
Location: Select the campus (i.e., Storrs, Health Center, or Avery Point) where your oral defense will be held from the drop down menu.
Building Name: Enter the name of the building where your oral defense will be held.
Room Number: Enter the room number where your oral defense will be held.
Date: Click on the corresponding box and select the date from the pop-up calendar.
Start Time: Click on the first time box and select your start time from the drop down menu.
End Time: Click on the second time box and select your end time from the drop down menu.
Description: Enter the title of your dissertation here. Be sure to indicate your doctoral field of study.
Contact Person: Enter the name of your Major Advisor, followed by their UConn email address, separated by a comma.
Primary: Select the Graduate School – Theses and Dissertation Defense option from the drop down menu.
Crosslist: Verify that only the UConn Master Calendar is selected here.
Click on the Submit Event button to submit your announcement.Contact Information: Heather Battaly | heather.battaly@uconn.edu
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7/27
Deadline to Defend Summer 2022 Dissertation
Deadline to Defend Summer 2022 Dissertation
Wednesday, July 27th, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus n/a
Contact Information: Heather Battaly | heather.battaly@uconn.edu
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8/20
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
Saturday, August 20th, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus TBA
Expression, Language, and Music (ELM) is to be a biennial conference that brings together researchers from linguistics, music theory, anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, philosophy, and more, with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning, e.g. the significance of emotional expression for both music and language, the importance of systematic structure in both music and language, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding the emergence of language (in ontogeny and phylogeny). Future conferences may focus more narrowly on a subset of these topics.
We are tentatively scheduling the inaugural in-person meeting of ELM for August 20-22, 2022.Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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8/21
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
Sunday, August 21st, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus TBA
Expression, Language, and Music (ELM) is to be a biennial conference that brings together researchers from linguistics, music theory, anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, philosophy, and more, with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning, e.g. the significance of emotional expression for both music and language, the importance of systematic structure in both music and language, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding the emergence of language (in ontogeny and phylogeny). Future conferences may focus more narrowly on a subset of these topics.
We are tentatively scheduling the inaugural in-person meeting of ELM for August 20-22, 2022.Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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8/22
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
ELM: Expression, Communication And Expression Conference
Monday, August 22nd, 2022
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus TBA
Expression, Language, and Music (ELM) is to be a biennial conference that brings together researchers from linguistics, music theory, anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive science, philosophy, and more, with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning, e.g. the significance of emotional expression for both music and language, the importance of systematic structure in both music and language, and the interrelations between expressive, musical, and communicative capacities and their relevance for understanding the emergence of language (in ontogeny and phylogeny). Future conferences may focus more narrowly on a subset of these topics.
We are tentatively scheduling the inaugural in-person meeting of ELM for August 20-22, 2022.Contact Information: aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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8/26
Philosophy Graduate Student Orientation
Philosophy Graduate Student Orientation
Friday, August 26th, 2022
09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus MCHU 110
Welcome and orientation of new doctoral students. In addition to offering important information on UCONN’s policies, there will be discussions drawing on faculty and students’ experiences of graduate study in the Philosophy Department and the resources on which to draw from across UCONN.Contact Information: Heather Battaly (heather.battaly@uconn.edu)
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