Congratulations to Professor Heather Battaly, who has been appointed the new Journal of the APA Editor-in-Chief by the American Philosophical Association. Check out the article here. Published quarterly, the Journal of the American Philosophical Association provides a platform for original work in all areas of philosophy. The journal aims to publish compelling papers written in a way that […]
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Lewis Gordon: “Fear of Black Consciousness”
Check out Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon on WAMAC’S Northeast Public Radio show “The Roundtable.” In this episode Professor Gordon discusses his new book, Fear of Black Consciousness, and the historical development of racialized Blackness and the larger issues this type of consciousness leads too. Gordon also discusses the responses Black and non-Black communities display in contemporary struggles for […]
Jane Gordon: “Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism”
Check out affiliate professor Jane Gordon’s contribution to Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism edited by Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn. *** Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism is a collection of letter exchanges in conversation with Rosa Luxemburg, in the year of her 150th anniversary. Twenty “Luxemburgians” from across the globe engage in vivid correspondence, with reference to and […]
Lewis Gordon: Most Anticipated Book of 2022
Congratulations to Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon, whose upcoming book Fear of Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) has been named to Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022. *** Professor Lewis R. Gordon, the Philosophy Department Head at the University of Connecticut, offers an expansive nonfiction work that critically examines the historical roots of […]
Dorit Bar-On: “How to do things with nonwords” (Biology & Philosophy)
Check out Dorit Bar-On’s recent article in Biology & Philosophy, “How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication.” This article features Ruth Millikan’s biosemantic framework, and benefited from several ECOM-based collaborations. ***Abstract*** Recent discussions of animal communication and the evolution of language have advocated adopting a ‘pragmatics-first’ approach, according […]
Tracy Llanera: “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-Right” Accepted by Hypatia
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s article, “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-right,” has been accepted for publication in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. ***ABSTRACT*** This essay offers a philosophical analysis of the misogyny experienced by women in the alternative right (alt-right) movement. I argue that this misogyny takes on a paradoxical form: the better alt-right […]
Philosophy Major Wins 2022 SHARE Award
Please join us in congratulating Jeremy Bachman, a sophomore Philosophy major selected to receive a 2022 Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Award! With faculty mentor Keith Simmons, Jeremy (’24) will research Truth and Logic in Spring 2022.
Lewis Gordon: Philosophy and Global Affairs, Vol. 1 Issue 2
Check out the second issue of Philosophy and Global Affairs, co-edited by Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. You can also read their contributed articles, linked below. “A Forum on Creolizing Social and Political Theory” by Lewis Gordon The author discusses Jane Anna Gordon’s proposal, in the 2006 international meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, […]
Lewis Gordon: The Crime Without a Name
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks better words to reframe discussions about race and culture and to change the way we understand our diverse and rapidly evolving political climate. In his new book, he examines ethnocide in America, the systematic erasure […]
Ayanna De’Vante Spencer: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Check out the “Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy” written by Ann Gary, where Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ayanna De’Vante Spencer, is recognized for her piece of work entitled “Say Her Name: Maladjusted Epistemic Salience in the Fight against Anti-Black Police Brutality.” Ayanna De’Vante Spencer is among those writing about the […]