Check out PhD Student Steven Núñez, #SpookySZN- Autumn 2021 Collection, where he displays a collection of photo’s he has taken this fall around New England! His goal was to capture images that represented what fall is truly from the bright colors to the scenery around town.
Graduate Students
Cody Turner: “Neuromedia, Cognitive Offloading, and Intellectual Perseverance”
Congratulations to graduate student Cody Turner, who’s recent paper titled “Neuromedia, Cognitive Offloading, and Intellectual Perseverance” was accepted for publication at the journal Synthese. To read more check out a preview of the pre-publication version attached below!
Katrina Van Dyke: Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Graduate Student Fellowship
Congratulations to graduate student Katrina Van Dyke, who has been awarded a Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Graduate Student Fellowship! She is the first philosopher to receive the award since the graduate student fellowship’s inception. Her project is titled Gendered Viewpoints and Objectification: Reconsidering Catharine MacKinnon’s Account of Desire and Power.
Christopher Rahlwes: From the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā in The Hudson Review
Read graduate student Christopher Rahlwes’ translation of Nagarjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā published in The Hudson Review (Spring 2021, Volume LXXIV, No. 1).
Heather Muraviov: Millikan Fellowship
The Department is pleased to announce that Heather Muraviov is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will enable Heather to devote the summer to completing two chapters of her dissertation entitled “Liberatory Virtue Epistemology.” Her major advisor is Heather Battaly. For more information about the Ruth Garrett Millikan […]
Drew Johnson: Humanities Institute Fellow
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Drew Johnson for being selected as a fellow for the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI). Drew will be working on his dissertation, “A Hybrid Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse,” which applies prominent recent philosophical theories of expression and representation to develop a novel “hybrid” theory recognizing the joint role of reason […]
Heather Muraviov: Excellence for Diversity and Inclusivity in a Syllabus
The Philosophy Department’s Climate Committee is pleased to announce that our inaugural Prize for Excellence for Diversity and Inclusivity in a Syllabus is awarded to Heather Muraviov’s syllabus for PHIL 1101, which demonstrated excellence in all three of these dimensions of diversity and inclusivity. Congratulations Heather! Thank you for designing an excellent syllabus. The committee […]
Drew Johnson: “Disjunctive Luminosity”
Read graduate student Drew Johnson’s recent article in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, “Disjunctive Luminosity.” *Abstract* Williamson’s influential anti‐luminosity argument aims to show that our own mental states are not “luminous,” and that we are thus “cognitively homeless.” Among other things, this argument represents a significant challenge to the idea that we enjoy basic self‐knowledge of […]
Michael Hegarty: A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality
Read graduate student Michael Hegarty’s recent publication in the Usinos Journal of Philosophy, “A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality.”