This week: Heather Battaly, "Can Humility be a Liberatory Virtue?"

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/.

The annual prep meeting for philosophy graduate students who are going on the academic job market.

More information forthcoming.

More details forthcoming.

Join us for a talk by Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Munich, MCMP) in the Logic Colloquium!


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UConn Logic Group Workshop, April 6-7, 2019

https://meaning.linguistics.uconn.edu/special-events/

“If" by any other name

It is a relatively recent development that research on conditionals is taking a deep and sustained interest in the full range of linguistic markers, their interactions with each other and with other linguistic categories, and the ways in which they drive and constrain the interpretation of the sentences they occur in. Tense and aspect is an area where such attention has already borne fruit; to a lesser extent, we may mention conditional connectives and pro-forms (especially thanks to works like Iatridou 2000 and Iatridou & Embick 1993). More recently, there seems to be a growing interest in two things: on the one hand, more varied aspects of formal marking of conditionals and the ways in which different grammatical categories may be recruited to encode conditional meaning (including aspect, different types of connectives, conjunctions, etc.); on the other hand, the appearance of these markers in other linguistic contexts (like optatives, complement clauses, temporal clauses, interrogatives, etc.).

Speakers at the workshop include: Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Teruyuki Mizuno, Hiromune Oda, Paolo Santorio, Will Starr, Una Stojnić, and Muyi Yang

See the full program here:

https://meaning.linguistics.uconn.edu/special-events/

UConn Logic Group Workshop, April 6-7, 2019

https://meaning.linguistics.uconn.edu/special-events/

“If" by any other name

It is a relatively recent development that research on conditionals is taking a deep and sustained interest in the full range of linguistic markers, their interactions with each other and with other linguistic categories, and the ways in which they drive and constrain the interpretation of the sentences they occur in. Tense and aspect is an area where such attention has already borne fruit; to a lesser extent, we may mention conditional connectives and pro-forms (especially thanks to works like Iatridou 2000 and Iatridou & Embick 1993). More recently, there seems to be a growing interest in two things: on the one hand, more varied aspects of formal marking of conditionals and the ways in which different grammatical categories may be recruited to encode conditional meaning (including aspect, different types of connectives, conjunctions, etc.); on the other hand, the appearance of these markers in other linguistic contexts (like optatives, complement clauses, temporal clauses, interrogatives, etc.).

Speakers at the workshop include: Kai von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou, Teruyuki Mizuno, Hiromune Oda, Paolo Santorio, Will Starr, Una Stojnić, and Muyi Yang

See the full program here:

https://meaning.linguistics.uconn.edu/special-events/

Screening and discussion of film FANON: YESTERDAY, TODAY with director Hassan Mezine and Professor Nigel Gibson.

Nigel C. Gibson is an expert in the fields of Africana thought, postcolonialism and African Studies and is recognized as one of the leading scholars on Frantz Fanon. He has presented his work in Africa, Europe and the Americas, as well as speaking at the UN and appearing on the History Channel. He is author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (2011) and Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003 [which won the Caribbean Philosophy Association prize]) and co-author (with Roberto Beneduce) of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (2017). He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999), Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006) and Living Fanon (2011) and co-editor of Contested Terrains: Contemporary Africa in Focus (2002), Adorno: A Critical Reader (2002), and Biko Lives (2008). He is currently the editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Hassan Mezine has worked as a photographer and film maker with anti-colonial filmmaker Rene Vautier and with Leila Morouche and Oriane Brun-Moschetti (Algeria Twists/Turns, 2004). Since 2016, he works as director of photography for Delou, a Nigerian TV series directed by Souleymane Maharanee. He teaches digital photography and multimedia in Paris.

Talk by Peter Langland-Hassan, Cog Sci Brown Bag "Assessing Inner Speech Impairment in Aphasia and Testing its Consequences for Categorization and Metacognition"

Peter Langland-Hassan (Cincinnati) will give an ECOM talk

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/.

Our Humility & Conviction in Public Life Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Educating for good questioning as a form of intellectual humility” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Talk by Allan Hazlett, Washington University in St. Louis

Degrees and Deflationism

Philosophy

The Meaning Group will meet on Friday April 12, at 1:15pm in Oak Hall 338. We will have a guest speaker, Naomi Francis (MIT). Title to be announced.

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

Join us for a talk by Branden Fitelson (Northeastern) in the Logic Colloquium!

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Branden Fitelson (Northeastern)

How to model the probabilities of conditionals

David Lewis (and others) have famously argued against Adams’s Thesis (that the probability of a conditional is the conditional probability of its consequent, given it antecedent) by proving various “triviality results.” In this paper, I argue for two theses — one negative and one positive. The negative thesis is that the “triviality results” do not support the rejection of Adams’s Thesis, because Lewisian “triviality based” arguments against Adams’s Thesis rest on an implausibly strong understanding of what it takes for some credal constraint to be a rational requirement (an understanding which Lewis himself later abandoned in other contexts). The positive thesis is that there is a simple (and plausible) way of modeling the probabilities of conditionals, which (a) obeys Adams’s Thesis, and (b) avoids all of the existing triviality results.

Colloquium

This week: Jc Beall, "Classical Logic is Dead. Long Live Classical Logic!"

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/.

Our Humility & Conviction in Public Life Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Ignorance and Democratic Speech: Understanding the Challenge Ignorance Poses for Inclusive Deliberation” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Please join us for the 5th annual Philosophy Graduate conference at UConn. We will have 5 graduate student speakers throughout the day and will culminate in a talk by our keynote speaker, Laurie Paul, at 4 PM.

Approaching Cadavers: A Philosophical Consideration of Suicide and Depression in the Africana Diaspora

Field of Study: Philosophy

This week: Rashed Ahmad, "Humor, Dating, and Connections"

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/.

Talk by Louise Richardson-Self, University of Tasmania

Explores epistemic vices, including bias and epistemic injustice, and their impact on social networks, the media, and education.

Join us for a talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz) in the Logic Colloquium!


"Computational Cognitive Modeling for Syntax and Semantics"

Adrian Brasoveanu (joint work with Jakub Dotlacil)

Abstract: I introduce a typical experimental task in psycholinguistics -- self-paced reading -- and show how to build end-to-end simulations of a human participant in such an experiment; end-to-end means that we model visual and motor processes together with specifically linguistic processes (syntactic and semantic parsing) in a complete model of the experimental task. The model embeds theoretical hypotheses about linguistic representations and parsing processes in an independently motivated cognitive architecture (ACT-R). In turn, the resulting cognitive models can be embedded in Bayesian models to fit them to experimental data, estimate their parameters and perform quantitative model comparison for qualitative theories.


All welcome!

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The Cognitive Science Colloquium Series is proud to present Mark S. Seidenberg, Vilas Research Professor and Donald O. Hebb Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Seidenberg will provide a talk entitled “The Science and Politics of Learning to Read”

Explores epistemic vices, including bias and epistemic injustice, and their impact on social networks, the media, and education.

This week: Marcus Rossberg, "Neutral Free Logic"

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/.

Each year, the UConn Logic Group bestows the title of Scholar of Consequence to an eminent logician whose work shaped the field.

The 2019 Scholar of Consequence is Sara Negri (Helsinki, Finland).

Professor Negri will give the following public the Annual Logic Lecture:

A three-fold method for non-classical logics

Abstract:

There are three established ways of analysing the validity of a logical argument: axiomatic, semantic, and inferential; they correspond to what could be called the normative, the descriptive, and the deductive face of a logical system and are tightly related to each other by fundamental meta-theorems.

For non-classical logics, each of the three aspects has drawbacks when considered in isolation. The situation changes, however, drastically when the three aspects are developed in parallel. Through the labelled formalism, by now is a well-developed methodology, models can be considered as purely mathematical objects with no ontological assumptions upon them: the semantics is turned into an essential component in the syntax of sequent calculi with invertible rules. Such calculi not only provide a tool for the automatisation of reasoning, but can also be used to establish very general properties of logical systems.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/annual-logic-lecture/

Join is for the Logic Colloquium given by the 2019 Scholar of Consequence!

Sara Negri (Helsinki, Finland)

"Unveiling the constructive core of classical theories: A contribution to 90 years of Glivenko’s theorem"

Abstract:

Glivenko’s well known result of 1929 established that a negated propositional formula provable in classical logic is even provable intuitionistically. Similar later transfers from classical to intuitionistic provability therefore fall under the nomenclature of Glivenko-style results: these are results about classes of formulas for which classical provability yields intuitionistic provability. The interest in isolating such classes lies in the fact that it may be easier to prove theorems by the use of classical rather than intuitionistic logic. Further, since a proof in intuitionistic logic can be associated to a lambda term and thus obtain a computational meaning, such results have more recently been gathered together under the conceptual umbrella “computational content of classical theories.” They also belong to a more general shift of perspective in foundations: rather than developing constructive mathematics separately, as in Brouwer’s program, one studies which parts of classical mathematics can be directly translated into constructive terms.

We shall survey how Glivenko-style results can be easily obtained by the choice of suitable sequent calculi for classical and intuitionistic logic, by the conversion of axioms into inference rules, and by the procedure of geometrization of first order logic.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

ECOM Conference: Communication, Context, Conversation

ECOM Conference: Communication, Context, Conversation