The UConn Humanities Institute, led by our Michael Lynch, is now a university-wide research institution. See the story.
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Ruth Millikan and Rocket Science
See the nice piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Ruth’s new book.
Welcome Lynne Tirrell
We are delighted to announce that Professor Lynne Tirrell will be joining our department in the fall of 2017 and will also be affiliated with the UConn Human Rights Institute. Lynne is a leading researcher in the area of socially applied yet technically adept philosophy of language. Indeed, she may be said to have founded […]
Robillard and Strawser: Winners in Op-Ed contest
Grad alums Michael Robillard and BJ Strawser were among the winners in the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Public Philosophy Op-Ed contest for their co-authored essay, “Are Soldiers Morally Exploited?” Ethical War Blog (Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace). See the announcement and bios of the two BJ Strawser.
Welcome Heather Battaly
We are delighted to announce that Professor Heather Battaly will be joining our department in the fall of 2017. Heather specializes in epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory, is one of the leading researchers in the world on the concept of intellectual humility, and is a pioneer on the topic of epistemic vice. Her work influences […]
Ruth Millikan: 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruth Garrett Millikan has been awarded the 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy–the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for analytic philosophy–“for her groundbreaking theories about biological functions and the biological foundations of thought and language, where the representational properties of the latter are explained in terms of […]
Ruth Millikan: Rescher Prize winner for 2017
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruth Garrett Millikan is the 2017 winner of The Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy. The Pitt department made the announcement on Brian Leiter’s blog here.
Lionel Shapiro: Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Potsdam
Lionel Shapiro has been awarded a fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation which will take him to the University of Potsdam (Germany) for a total of 14 months, including Spring 2017 and Spring 2018. He will be working on topics related to Wilfrid Sellars’s views on meaning, truth and representation.
In Memoriam: Jerome A. Shaffer
With sorrow the department announces that Emeritus Professor Jerome A. Shaffer, age 87, died on November 17, 2016. There was a memorial in the Storrs area on December 3. Jerry majored in philosophy at Cornell, earning a B.A. in 1950. He completed a PhD at Princeton in 1952 in just two years. In 1953 he […]
Michael Robillard: Fellowship at Oxford
New PhD Michael Robillard has been selected for a four year Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Oxford University in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. The project is the ERC Advanced Grant Research Project Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies.