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We have recently 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 Ph.D.s have secured positions at St. Andrews University, Oxford University and The Naval Post-Graduate School, the University of Delhi, 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, 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.
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Philosophy Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1054 / philosophy@uconn.edu / 1-860-486-4416
Upcoming Events
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10/11
Logic Colloquium: Ethan Brauer (OSU)
Logic Colloquium: Ethan Brauer (OSU)
Friday, October 11th, 2019
01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Storrs Campus Humantities Institute, 4th Floor Homer Babbidge Library
Join us for a talk in the Logic Colloquium!
Ethan Brauer (OSU):
A Modal Theory of Free Choice Sequences
Free choice sequences (also called 'infinitely proceeding sequences') are a concept from intuitionistic mathematics that are central to the development of the intuitionistic theory of the continuum. Free choice sequences have, however, been largely rejected or ignored both by classical and other constructive mathematicians. In this talk I argue that the objections to free choice sequences can be overcome by grounding the concept in our temporal intuition and formalizing the theory in modal logic. I will present a theory of free choice sequences as a modal extension of classical second-order arithmetic. The resulting theory is able to prove modal versions of the intuitionist's axioms for so-called lawless sequences, suffices for the development of a theory of real number generators, and captures many results distinctive of intuitionistic analysis including the non-existence of functions on real numbers with definable discontinuities.
All welcome.
https://logic.uconn.edu/Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about/
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10/11
Colloquium, Claire Horisk
Colloquium, Claire Horisk
Friday, October 11th, 2019
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus FSB 216
TBAContact Information: Paul Bloomfield, phsb@uconn.edu
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10/14
The Persistence of Myth: Brazil's Undead Racial Democracy
The Persistence of Myth: Brazil's Undead Racial Democracy
Monday, October 14th, 2019
12:20 PM - 01:50 PM
Storrs Campus 4th Floor Babbidge Library
This talk addresses a recurrent tension in the literature on race and racism in Brazil. On the one hand, we find the so-called myth of racial democracy presented as the dominant racial ideology in Brazil, obscuring enduring racial inequality and thwarting the development of a racial justice mass-movement. On the other hand, we find periodic announcements that the myth of racial democracy has definitively died. Accordingly, I theorize the myth of racial democracy as a paradoxically undead myth and ask what it is about the form of this peculiar myth that allows it to survive its own repeated death. I show how the celebration of racial mixture, or mestiçagem, functions as a mythological signifier of racial democracy that operates beneath and beyond the level of conscious thought, activating powerful affects and desires even in those who “know” better.
Please contact Fred Lee fred.lee@uconn.edu with any questions
Sponsored by El Instituto, Philosophy, Africana Studies, Political Science, Political Theory Workshop, UConn Humanities Institute, Office for the Vice President for ResearchContact Information: Prof. Fred Lee (fred.lee@uconn.edu)
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10/16
Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Bloomfield
Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Bloomfield
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
12:15 PM - 01:15 PM
Storrs Campus MAN 002 (Basement Lounge)
Paul Bloomfield, "Temperance, Continence, Weakness, Compulsion"
A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.Contact Information: Lionel Shapiro, lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
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10/16
HistAnalytic Talk: Krzysztof Czerniawski (Warsaw) on Wittgenstein and Alethic Pluralism
HistAnalytic Talk: Krzysztof Czerniawski (Warsaw) on Wittgenstein and Alethic Pluralism
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Storrs Campus Humantities Institute, 4th Floor Homer Babbidge Library
UConn History of Analytical Philosophy Workshop
Join us for a talk by Krzysztof Czerniawski (University of Warsaw): "From Wittgenstein to Wright: An Early History of Alethic Pluralism".
https://rossberg.philosophy.uconn.edu/histanalytic/Contact Information: https://rossberg.philosophy.uconn.edu/histanalytic/
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10/17
ECOM Spotlight Dr. Emily Myers
ECOM Spotlight Dr. Emily Myers
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Arjona 307
A talk by ECOM member Prof. Emily Myers, title and room TBAContact Information: dorit.bar-on@uconn.edu
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