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&

Samuel C. Wheeler III is the author of Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good. Check it out at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415857284 Read a review at http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/49211-neo-davidsonian-metaphysics-from-the-true-to-the-good/

Ruth Garrett Millikan has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See the list of 2014 Fellows.

Paul Simard-Smith has won one of Canada’s prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowships. He will spend two years here at UConn working on Logical Pluralism with Jc Beall as supervisor. http://uwphilnews.wordpress.com  

Hallie Liberto has accepted an appointment in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for academic year 2014-15. She will be organizing a workshop in February 2015 on promises.

Workshop The UConn Logic group is proud to announce its annual logic workshop.The workshop is organized around a researcher whose work has had a significant and lasting influence on the field.The remaining talks, invited and selected, will be given by critics or contributors to the field who were influenced by the keynote speakers’s work. 2014: […]

A friendly reminder to mark your calendar for the upcoming Workshop on the Evolution of Syntax, to be held Friday, March 28, to Saturday, March 29. Presentations by Brady Clark (Linguistics, Northwestern University), Marie Coppola (Psychology and Linguistics, UConn), Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State University), Ann Senghas (Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University), William Snyder (Linguistics, UConn), […]

Michael Lynch is one of the winners in the APA’s Committee on Public Philosophy Op-Ed contest! You can read his piece here:

New Faculty and the year they start are: Fall ’12: Bill Lycan (UNC): visiting each Fall: Language, Mind, Epistemology Fall ’13: Lewis Gordon (formerly Temple): Africana, Existentialism, Social/Political Mitch Green (formerly UVa): Language, Mind, Aesthetics Susan Schneider (formerly Penn): Mind, Language David Ripley (formerly Melbourne postdoc): Logic, Language Suzy Killmister (formerly Massey): Political, Moral Daniel Silvermint (formerly McGill postdoc): Political, Feminist Fall ’14 […]

Story: Susan Schneider awarded ACLS Fellowship