Congratulations to Assistant Professor Ting-An Lin for her article, “Analytic Philosophy in Taiwan: Impact Within and Beyond Academia,” being published in the Spring 2024 issue of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies, with the special issue theme, “O the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy in East Asia.”
Check out the issue here!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Tracy Llanera for being featured in The Philosopher UK, alongside Philosophy Department guest and former UCHI fellow, Louise Richardson-Self, on Extremism and the Allure of Science!
Check out the video here!
Please join us in congratulating Philosophy graduate student Katie Peters on her recent publication of “How Not to Excuse Far-Right Women” on the APA Women in Philosophy Blog. The essay explores the social responsibility of far-right women, as well as the subsequent consequences. You can read an excerpt from the article below:
Why focus on far-right women at all? I think that using the example of far-right women makes it easy to understand who exactly we are exempting from responsibility with the exculpatory narratives of misogyny and infantilization. By insisting that these women, too, are answerable for their actions, we can say that any woman, regardless of whether we agree with her ideology, has the potential to be called upon to answer for her actions and beliefs that harm others.
You can read the whole post by clicking here.
Congrats, Katie!
Please check out an excerpt from Philosophy Graduate Student Tiana-Marie Blassingale’s new review essay, “Jeezy’s Lessons from Adversity”:
On the surface, it seems like Adversity for Sale is a collection of short stories about a young Black man as he navigates his way through the street life into a position of an established entrepreneur who is capable of providing generational wealth for his family by any means. However, seen through a philosophical lens, the book highlights a new perspective on liberatory virtues and vices. It’s a curation of epistemology, learned through lived experiences, not only by Jeezy, but also by many others in the book and the hood, more generally speaking. The book provides a glimpse into a rich body of knowledge, which could be referred to as “Hood Philosophy,” otherwise known as “street smarts” or “street knowledge.”
You can read the full essay on the Blog of the APA here.
Congratulations, Tiana-Marie!
Check out Thomas Meagher’s (PhD 2018) newest review essay: “Forgiveness, Obligation, and Cultures of Domination: A Review of Myisha Cherry’s Failures of Forgiveness”.
Below is an excerpt of the article, which you can read in full on the Blog of the APA here.
This diagnosis Cherry relates largely in the form of a discussion of the commonplace or “narrow” view of forgiveness. Cherry characterizes the common view as one in which forgiveness is, at heart, a means of letting go of anger. On such a view, the purpose or telos of forgiving must be to unburden the forgiver of emotions directed toward wrongdoers. Cherry shows, though, that this is an overly narrow conception of the emotional correlates of those contexts in which forgiveness is an option.
Congrats, Thomas!
Congratulations to Associate Professor Tracy Llanera for being named a 2024 Philosophy in Media Fellow!
Check out the announcement here!
Congratulations to Professors of Philosophy Tracy Llanera and Marcus Rossberg for their recent promotions! Tracy Llanera has been promoted to Associate Professor and Marcus Rossberg has been promoted to Professor.
Congrats, Tracy and Marcus!
Check out the announcement in UConn Today here!
Congratulations to Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Dr. Lewis Gordon, for being chosen as Fordham University’s 2024 Philosophy Suarez Lecturer! Dr. Gordon’s lecture is titled “What Can We Learn from Black Existentialism?”
Dr. Gordon joins a renowned list of philosophers — check them out here!
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera on being featured in The Daily Campus! The article features Dr. Llanera’s presentation, “The Misfits of Extremism: Brides, Moms, and Daughters,” and discusses the premise of her upcoming book that is currently in progress.
“This book interrogates the role, value, and agency of marginal actors in white supremacist and Islamic terror movements,” Llanera stated. “While becoming extremists may temporarily enhance their agency and feelings of importance and belonging, I argue that the empowerment of marginal actors is conditional, pernicious and often lethal.”
You can read the rest of the article here.