This week: Jared Henderson, "Absoluteness and Alethic Pluralism"

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/.

Join us for a talk by former Logic Group postdoc Shay Logan in the Logic Colloquium!

Shay Logan (Macalester)

"Logic is Contractionless and Relevant, but Logic is (Accidentally) Contractionless and Relevant: An Introduction to Deep Fried Logic"

Abstract:

Logic, according to Beall, is the universal entailment relation. I claim that this forces us to accept that logic is contractionless and relevant. But neither relevance nor contraction-freedom, important as these features have been in the literature on logic and its philosophy, play a role in my argument. Instead, they are emergent features -- logical accidents, if you will. Along the way I will familiarize us with a novel (and delicious) semantic theory that I call deep fried semantics.



https://logic.uconn.edu/

John Wallace (Princeton University) will be giving a talk as part of the Publishing NOW Series

This week: Nathan Kellen

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 Meaning Group will meet on Friday February 8, at 12:45pm in Oak Hall 308. We will be discussing the paper “Specificational subjects are individual concepts” by Arregi, Francez and Martinovic.

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.

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ECOM Meet&Greet

This week: Steven Utz (UConn Law), "What is a Rule?"

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 Meaning Group will meet on Friday February 15, at 1:15pm in Oak Hall 338. We will be discussing the paper “Guiding assertions and questions in discourse: Mandarin dique and zhende” by Mengxi Yuan and Yurie Hara (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

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.

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ECOM talk by Cameron Buckner (University of Houston)

This week: Paul Bloomfield, "Courage: Scope, Psychology, Epistemology"

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 Meaning Group will meet on Friday February 22, at 1:15pm in Oak Hall 338. We will be discussing the paper "Deontic Modality and the Semantics of Free Choice" be Melissa Fusco (Philosopher's Imprint 15, 2015).

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.

This week: Amy Karofsky (Hofstra), "Necessitarianism"

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 UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning” 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 Jamie Dreier of Brown University

A public discussion on ethics featuring Linda Alcoff (CUNY) and Susan Brison (Dartmouth), reception to follow.