Check out alumna Keya Maitra’s (Ph.D. 2000) co-edited book, Feminist Philosophy of Mind, out September 27, 2022 with Oxford University Press.
Alumni
Tom Meagher: “Existential Psychoanalysis and Sociogeny”
Check out alumnus Tom Meagher’s recent article in Sarte Studies International, “Existential Psychoanalysis and Sociogeny.” *** This article explores Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis as a phenomenological method for apprehending the fundamental project of the existent through an examination of the anonymous features of human desire. In grasping the anonymity underlying the “I want,” existential psychoanalysis seeks the […]
Junyeol Kim – Winner of the 2021 APA Routledge Taylor & Francis Prize
Congratulations to alumni Junyeol Kim, who has been awarded the 2021 APA Routledge Taylor & Francis Prize for the article “The Horizontal in Frege’s Begriffsschrift” (Synthese, 2020). This prize is awarded for the two best philosophical articles written by adjunct professors. ***Abstract from article*** This paper addresses an issue with the sign ‘’ in Frege’s mature […]
Colena Sesanker-“Concerns raised over Community Colleges”
Check out alumna Colena Sesanker (2017), quoted in a recent article titled “Concerns raised over community colleges” in the Willimantic Chronicle about the consolidation of the community colleges. ***Excerpt from article*** Colena Sesanker, a philosophy professor at Gateway Community College and chairwoman of the faculty advisory committee to the Board of Regents, challenged Gov. Ned […]
Kensuke Ito: “Truth and Falsity in Communication: Assertion, Denial, and Interpretation”
Check out alum Kensuke Ito’s forthcoming article in Erkenntnis, “Truth and Falsity in Communication: Assertion, Denial, and Interpretation.” The abstract may be found here. ***ABSTRACT*** Our linguistic communication is, in part, the exchange of truths. It is an empirical fact that in daily conversation we aim at truths, not falsehoods. This fact may lead us to […]
Kensuke Ito: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Please join us in congratulating recent graduate Kensuke Ito, who has been awarded a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Kensuke begins his fellowship in April at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, where he’ll join fellow UConn alum Ryo Tanaka–who won the same fellowship last year!
Colena Sesanker: Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?
Check out alumna Colena Sesanker’s (2017) op-ed with Stephen Adair in The New York Times, “Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?”
Nathan Sheff: “Wilfrid Sellars, Sensory Experience and the ‘Myth of the Given'”
Read alumni Nathan Sheff’s (PhD 2017) recent essay in Psyche, titled “Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given.’”
Recent Publications by some Graduate Alumni
Levente Szentkirályi The Ethics of Precaution: Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care (New York: Routledge 2019) Stephen Lahey The Hussites in the Past Imperfect Series, ARC Humanities Press, Amsterdam University Press, 2019. First book in English on the topic in over 50 years! Tom Meagher “Theorizing the Ideally Non-Ideal: Sanín-Restrepo’s Decolonizing Democracy and […]