One of our graduate students, Michael Robillard has been chosen from a large pool of candidates to be one of three research fellows at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership located at the United States Naval Academy. The Fellows program is a unique and multidisciplinary effort that brings together academics and military professionals to study a specific topic in the field of military ethics and leadership. Next year’s topic will be on civil/military relations. The Fellows meet together for a weekly seminar, host guest speakers, conduct independent and joint research, travel to meet with other experts in the field, publish their findings in journals and books, produce instructional materials for the Academy curriculum, and make presentations at the Academy and other national and international forums. Research accomplished by the Fellows makes a significant impact on education at the Naval Academy and policy making within our national government. Michael will begin his residency at the Center in September of 2015 and will complete the program in May of 2016.

See the link below for details on the Race and Anarchy Conference to be held at UConn March 26 and 27.

http://humanities.uconn.edu/2015/03/18/race-and-anarchy-conference-326-327-uconn/

Mitch Green will be a Visiting Fellow at the Muenster Graduate School of Evolution, of the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster, from mid-May to mid-June, 2015. During that time he will be collaborating with graduate students and faculty on issues in the evolutionary biology of communication.

The UConn Conference on Truth Pluralism and Logical Pluralism takes place April 17-19. More information here.

“Science” magazine’s homepage has linked to the story in “Motherboard” about Susan Schneider’s speculation that any intelligent extraterrestrials we meet will likely be post-biological.

The new anthology from Oxford, Composition as Identity, edited by A.J. Cotnoir (St. Andrews) and Donald L. M. Baxter (UConn) is now available.

UK site

USA site

 

Lewis Gordon in Philosophy and Jane Gordon in Political Science are two of the editors of a new series from Rowman and Littlefield on Global Critical Caribbean Thought.

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-publishing/series/global-critical-caribbean-thought/

Check out Daniel Silvermint’s going-viral post about “thoughts and habits that make work and life harder”
http://dailynous.com/2014/08/21/grad-traps-guest-post-by-daniel-silvermint/

The Philosopher’s Annual has selected Jc Beall’s “Free of Detachment: Logic, Rationality, and Gluts” in Noûs as one of the 10 best papers of 2013.