The UConn Humanities Institute, led by our Michael Lynch, is now a university-wide research institution. See the story.

See the nice piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Ruth’s new book.

Emma Bjorngard-Basayne has accepted a position as Academic Advisor & Program Coordinator in the UConn School of Business in Stamford starting summer, 2018.   Ralph DiFranco has accepted a position as Instructor in Philosophy at Auburn University starting fall, 2018.   Hanna Gunn has accepted a position as Mellon Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt […]

The Journal of Philosophical Research is under new editorial leadership with Heather Battaly as Editor-in-Chief, and Raja Halwani, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Peter Ross, Lynne Tirrell, and Liezl van Zyl as Associate Editors. JPR has a new home at the University of Connecticut. JPR has three main aims. We are committed to publishing first-rate articles on a […]

Jc Beall: 2018 Distinguished Shinhan Professor at Yonsei University Jc Beall will take up this honor following an independently planned collaborative research visit with the Yonsei philosophers and logicians in April 2018. Previous Shinhan Faculty and further information on the honor: https://uic.yonsei.ac.kr/main/academic.asp?mid=m03_01_03

We are delighted to announce that Professor Lynne Tirrell will be joining our department in the fall of 2017 and will also be affiliated with the UConn Human Rights Institute. Lynne is a leading researcher in the area of socially applied yet technically adept philosophy of language. Indeed, she may be said to have founded […]

Grad alums Michael Robillard and BJ Strawser were among the winners in the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Public Philosophy Op-Ed contest for their co-authored essay, “Are Soldiers Morally Exploited?” Ethical War Blog (Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace). See the announcement and bios of the two BJ Strawser.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Heather Battaly will be joining our department in the fall of 2017. Heather specializes in epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory, is one of the leading researchers in the world on the concept of intellectual humility, and is a pioneer on the topic of epistemic vice. Her work influences […]

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruth Garrett Millikan has been awarded the 2017 Rolf Shock Prize in Logic and Philosophy–the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for analytic philosophy–“for her groundbreaking theories about biological functions and the biological foundations of thought and language, where the representational properties of the latter are explained in terms of […]

Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Emerita Ruth Garrett Millikan is the 2017 winner of The Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy. The Pitt department made the announcement on Brian Leiter’s blog here.