Students have two opportunities to study with Professor Keith Simmons in Spring 2025! Check out the descriptions for PHIL 3214: Symbolic Logic II and PHIL 3298: Paradoxes. Interested? Sign up today in Student Admin or contact Dr. Simmons to request the syllabus.
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Professor Emerita Margaret Gilbert: New Book, Podcast Interview and APA Pacific Division President
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Margaret Gilbert for her accomplishments as the 2023 – 2024 President of the APA Pacific Division, publishing her new book this year, and being interviewed on The Phi Beta Kappa Society podcast!
Lynne Tirrell: Understanding and Automating Counterspeech | Sept. 29, 2021
Check out this upcoming workshop, Understanding and Automating Counterspeech, hosted by the research project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies! Professor of Philosophy Lynne Tirrell will participate as a guest speaker along with others from around the world. This workshop’s goal is to bring together experts from different fields to address the issues with counterspeech. When: […]
Heather Battaly and Casey Johnson: Character, Vices, and Authority
Tune into Character, Vices, and Authority with UConn Professor of Philosophy Heather Battaly and UConn alumna Casey Johnson (now Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho) on Thursday, May 13th, at 2:00 PM! When trying to make sense of the world, we rely on other people – for information, ideas, alternative perspectives, criticisms, and objections. […]
Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Fellowship Matching Challenge
Click Here to Contribute A “match challenge” has been made in support of the Ruth Garrett Millikan Fellowship Fund. Anonymous donors have pledged $1000, which will be contributed to this fund by December 31 if others have collectively contributed that same amount by that date. The Millikan Fellowship fund is used to support ABD […]
Sandy Grande: New Faculty in Social Justice Bring Diverse Voices to UConn
Excerpted from UConn Today The department is pleased to welcome Sandy Grande who will be a professor in the political science department with an affiliate appointment in the philosophy department. She identifies as a Quechua national and comes to UConn as part of the Native American and Indigenous studies cluster hire. Previously, Grande was a […]
Stewart Shapiro in 2019 Philosopher’s Annual
Stewart Shapiro’s article, ‘Actual and Potential Infinity,’ co-authored with Oystein Linnebo, and published in Nous, vol. 53 (pp. 160-191), has been selected by The Philosopher’s Annual for inclusion as one of the ten best philosophy articles published in 2019. Abstract The notion of potential infinity dominated in mathematical thinking about infinity from Aristotle until Cantor. […]
In Memoriam: John Troyer
John Gordon Troyer (1943-2020) With great sorrow we report the death of Associate Professor Emeritus John G. Troyer, who died on August 11, 2020 surrounded by family. He was a beloved colleague, generous with his time, who took great interest in the work of the rest of the department members. He was always willing to […]
In Memoriam: Joel J. Kupperman
[This memorial notice is an abridgement of a memorial minute by Professor Emerita Diana Tietjens Meyers on the American Philosophical Association website.] Joel J. Kupperman (1936-2020) With deep sadness we report the death of Joel J. Kupperman, University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He died in Brooklyn NY on April 8, 2020. […]
Ryo Tanaka: Millikan Fellowship
The Department is pleased to announce that Ryo Tanaka is the 2020 recipient of the Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will enable Ryo to devote the summer to completing two chapters of his dissertation, which is entitled, ‘Semantic Knowledge as Expressive Know-How’. His major advisor is Dorit Bar-On. For more information about […]