Check out a symposium on Professor Tracy Llanera‘s book Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism featured in the new issue of Metaphilosophy.
Read Symposium on Richard Rorty: Outgrowing Modern Nihilism by Tracy Llanera
Media
Lewis Gordon: Discussing Blues Music with Tavis Smiley
Professor Lewis Gordon rejoins Tavis Smiley in a conversation about the profound legacy and impact of the blues on African American culture and beyond.
Listen to the podcast here!
David Rodriguez: APA Eastern Division and Hildebrand Project
Many congratulations are in order for David Rodriguez, whose paper “Character Growth Externalism: A View to Ameliorating Vice” being accepted for presentation as the 2024 APA Eastern Division meeting!
David Rodriguez has also been accepted into the Hildebrand Project’s Thirteenth Annual Summer Seminar on Gratitude as one of the keynote speakers!
Yuhan Liang: Essay Published in Asian Philosophy Journal
Congratulations to our fellow Graduate Student, Yuhan Liang, for her essay being published in the journal Asian Philosophy!
Check out Yuhan’s essay, titled “Is there a universal priority in cases of value conflicts? – Reverse engineering Quan 權 ” below!
Lewis Gordon: Philosophy from the Pub
Check out CBC Radio‘s coverage of Professor Lewis Gordon‘s lecture in St John’s, Newfoundland, where he presented a lecture in a historic pub!
Read the article here, included with a recording of Professor Gordon’s lecture.
Paul Bloomfield and Alumna Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco featured in New Work in Philosophy
Professor Paul Bloomfield and Alumna Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco’s article, “The Axiology of Pain and Pleasure,” has been featured in New Work in Philosophy!
Check out the article here!
2023 -2024 UCHI/CLAS Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to the 2023 – 2024 UCHI/CLAS Undergraduate Research Fellows who have been supervised by our wonderful junior faculty members!
Breanna Bonner (Project advisor: Ayanna De’Vante Spencer)
“‘The Space Between Black and Liberation’: Analyzing Black Women’s Experiences of Intersectional Invisibility Within Liberation Movements”
Annabelle Bergstrom (Project advisor: Julian J. Schlöder)
“Minds Among Minds: A Pragmatist View of the Social and Spiritual Self in a Hyperconnected World”
Nathan Howard (Project advisor: Tracy Llanera)
“Homofascism: The Queering of Hate”
Dana Miranda: APA Essay on Black Issues in Philosophy
Congratulations to our very own alum, Dana Miranda, whose essay “The Blacker the Madness: The Balmy Methodologies of La Marr Jurelle Bruce” has been recently published on The Blog of the American Philosophical Association.
Dana Miranda is now an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow at the Applied Ethics Center in UMass Boston!
Check out the essay here!
Tracy Llanera: Awarded Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for being awarded a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship! Professor Llanera will write a new book titled The Misfits of Extremism.
Her book aims to place non-traditional extremist agents of Islamic fundamentalism and white supremacy at the front and center of philosophical and political debates. The work will offer a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature and character of extremism and extremist commitment, the dynamics of power and agency, and the problems of blame and moral accountability.
Winners of the UCHI Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship
Congratulations to undergraduate students Anabelle Bergstrom and Nathan Howard for being awarded the UCHI Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship for 2023 – 2024!
Anabelle will work on the project “Minds Among Minds: A Pragmatist View of the Social and Spiritual Self in a Hyperconnected World,” supervised by Assistant Research Professor Julian Schloeder.
Nathan will work on the project “Homofascism: The Queering of Hate,” supervised by Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera.