Graduate student Steve Núñez‘s photo essay “Free the Land: Landscape Photography as a Decolonial Practice” has been featured in the Visual Culture Journal Refract, University of California, Santa Cruz. *** Exploring themes of race and shared ecologies across the Americas, the born-digital photography exhibition I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies presents a hemispheric vision of African […]
Jane Gordon: “Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism”
Check out affiliate professor Jane Gordon’s contribution to Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism edited by Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn. *** Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism is a collection of letter exchanges in conversation with Rosa Luxemburg, in the year of her 150th anniversary. Twenty “Luxemburgians” from across the globe engage in vivid correspondence, with reference to and […]
Margaret Gilbert: 2022 Dewey Lecture
Emerita Professor Margaret Gilbert will deliver the 2022 Dewey Lecture at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting. The John Dewey Lectures, in memory of John Dewey, were established in 2006 by the John Dewey Foundation and the APA. They are three annual lectures, one at each divisional meeting of the APA (Eastern, Central, and Pacific), […]
Lewis Gordon: Most Anticipated Book of 2022
Congratulations to Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon, whose upcoming book Fear of Black Consciousness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) has been named to Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2022. *** Professor Lewis R. Gordon, the Philosophy Department Head at the University of Connecticut, offers an expansive nonfiction work that critically examines the historical roots of […]
Dorit Bar-On: “How to do things with nonwords” (Biology & Philosophy)
Check out Dorit Bar-On’s recent article in Biology & Philosophy, “How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication.” This article features Ruth Millikan’s biosemantic framework, and benefited from several ECOM-based collaborations. ***Abstract*** Recent discussions of animal communication and the evolution of language have advocated adopting a ‘pragmatics-first’ approach, according […]
Tracy Llanera: “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-Right” Accepted by Hypatia
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s article, “The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-right,” has been accepted for publication in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. ***ABSTRACT*** This essay offers a philosophical analysis of the misogyny experienced by women in the alternative right (alt-right) movement. I argue that this misogyny takes on a paradoxical form: the better alt-right […]
Junyeol Kim – Winner of the 2021 APA Routledge Taylor & Francis Prize
Congratulations to alumni Junyeol Kim, who has been awarded the 2021 APA Routledge Taylor & Francis Prize for the article “The Horizontal in Frege’s Begriffsschrift” (Synthese, 2020). This prize is awarded for the two best philosophical articles written by adjunct professors. ***Abstract from article*** This paper addresses an issue with the sign ‘’ in Frege’s mature […]
Colena Sesanker-“Concerns raised over Community Colleges”
Check out alumna Colena Sesanker (2017), quoted in a recent article titled “Concerns raised over community colleges” in the Willimantic Chronicle about the consolidation of the community colleges. ***Excerpt from article*** Colena Sesanker, a philosophy professor at Gateway Community College and chairwoman of the faculty advisory committee to the Board of Regents, challenged Gov. Ned […]
Philosophy Major Wins 2022 SHARE Award
Please join us in congratulating Jeremy Bachman, a sophomore Philosophy major selected to receive a 2022 Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience (SHARE) Award! With faculty mentor Keith Simmons, Jeremy (’24) will research Truth and Logic in Spring 2022.
Kensuke Ito: “Truth and Falsity in Communication: Assertion, Denial, and Interpretation”
Check out alum Kensuke Ito’s forthcoming article in Erkenntnis, “Truth and Falsity in Communication: Assertion, Denial, and Interpretation.” The abstract may be found here. ***ABSTRACT*** Our linguistic communication is, in part, the exchange of truths. It is an empirical fact that in daily conversation we aim at truths, not falsehoods. This fact may lead us to […]