Month: January 2019

Susan Schneider: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Library of Congress

Susan Schneider has just begun a four-month appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. The award is to enable her to pursue a research project entitled “Mind Design: Artificial Intelligence, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self.” She will confab with other top scholars, make use of the Library’s rich resources, and interact with policymakers and the public, plus give a public presentation about the nature and results of her research.

 

Philosophy Department Published Books (2018):

We are pleased to share our Faculty’s published works in 2018:

 

Battaly, H. D., ed. (2019). The Routledge handbook of virtue epistemology. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Beall, J. C., Glanzberg, M., & Ripley, D. (2018). Formal theories of truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bragato, F. F., & Gordon, L. R., eds. (2018). Geopolitics and decolonization perspectives from the Global South. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Green, M. S. (2018). Know thyself: The value and limits of self-knowledge. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Hellman, G., & Shapiro, S. (2018). Varieties of continua: From regions to points and back. New York: Oxford University Press.

McLeod, A. (2018). The philosophical thought of Wang Chong. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Simmons, K. (2018). Semantic singularities: Paradoxes of reference, predication, and truth. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.