“Science” magazine’s homepage has linked to the story in “Motherboard” about Susan Schneider’s speculation that any intelligent extraterrestrials we meet will likely be post-biological.

The new anthology from Oxford, Composition as Identity, edited by A.J. Cotnoir (St. Andrews) and Donald L. M. Baxter (UConn) is now available.

UK site

USA site

 

Lewis Gordon in Philosophy and Jane Gordon in Political Science are two of the editors of a new series from Rowman and Littlefield on Global Critical Caribbean Thought.

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-publishing/series/global-critical-caribbean-thought/

Check out Daniel Silvermint’s going-viral post about “thoughts and habits that make work and life harder”
http://dailynous.com/2014/08/21/grad-traps-guest-post-by-daniel-silvermint/

The Philosopher’s Annual has selected Jc Beall’s “Free of Detachment: Logic, Rationality, and Gluts” in Noûs as one of the 10 best papers of 2013.

Paul Bloomfield’s The Virtues of Happiness: A Theory of the Good Life has just been released.

Here’s the website: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-virtues-of-happiness-9780199827367?cc=us&lang=en&

Samuel C. Wheeler III is the author of Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good.

Check it out at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415857284

Read a review at http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/49211-neo-davidsonian-metaphysics-from-the-true-to-the-good/

Ruth Garrett Millikan has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

See the list of 2014 Fellows.

Paul Simard-Smith has won one of Canada’s prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowships. He will spend two years here at UConn working on Logical Pluralism with Jc Beall as supervisor.

http://uwphilnews.wordpress.com

 

Hallie Liberto has accepted an appointment in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for academic year 2014-15. She will be organizing a workshop in February 2015 on promises.