The notes available here were produced by Dorit Bar-On in preparation for meetings of a reading group on Ruth Millikan’s Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information, and were lightly edited by Ruth. The notes were prepared for online publication with the help of Drew Johnson.

See an interview with Michael Lynch about his new book, Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture. Read an excerpt of the book in the fall issue of UConn Magazine.

Heather Muraviov and Taylor Tate co-authored “Black Women Philosophers Conference at the CUNY-Graduate Center,” which uses the pedagogical framework developed by Fanonian scholar Erica Burman to review the conference. Their analysis appeared in the “Black Issues in Philosophy” series of the Blog of the APA. https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/04/30/black-issues-in-philosophy-black-women-philosophers-conference-at-the-cuny-graduate-center/   Drew Johnson has two forthcoming articles:  “Hinge Epistemology, […]

Michael Patrick Lynch has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. Michael is our fourth BOT Distinguished Professor from Philosophy, along with Ruth Millikan, Joel Kupperman, and Jc Beall. As the provost’s website says, “The Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor is the highest honor that the University bestows on faculty who […]

Grad student Phillip Barron wins book award for philosophical poetry Philosophy graduate student Phillip Barron will receive the 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for his book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015). The Guillén Award, given by the Caribbean Philosophical Association, recognizes contributions to philosophical literature. The award will be […]

From an interview with legendary investor and philanthropist Bill Miller. Q: What advice would you give students about areas of study and being prepared for the working world? I was recently giving a talk at a conference, and there was a speaker there who specialized in disruptive technologies and had a PhD in computer science. […]

Susan Schneider has just begun a four-month appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. The award is to enable her to pursue a research project entitled “Mind Design: Artificial Intelligence, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self.” She will confab with other top scholars, […]

We are pleased to share our Faculty’s published works in 2018:   Battaly, H. D., ed. (2019). The Routledge handbook of virtue epistemology. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Beall, J. C., Glanzberg, M., & Ripley, D. (2018). Formal theories of truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bragato, F. F., & Gordon, L. R., eds. (2018). […]

The Brazilian journal EntreLetras is doing a special issue on the work of Lewis Gordon. The announcement gives a nice summary of Lewis’s areas.