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.

Paul Bloomfield’s The Virtues of Happiness: A Theory of the Good Life has just been released.

Here’s the website: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-virtues-of-happiness-9780199827367?cc=us&lang=en&