Alexus McLeod: Aeon+Psyche Pick from the Archive

Psyche, a digital magazine run by Aeon Media Group that explores the human condition through mental health, the question of “how to live,” and the arts and transcendent experience, has selected Associate Professor Alexus McLeod’s 2020 essay as the editor’s pick from the archive. Read “Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal” […]

Tracy Llanera: The Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Philippines

At the height of the pandemic crisis in 2020, Filipino women philosophers everywhere gathered virtually to form the group Women Doing Philosophy. Read two feature essays about the organization in the APA-Black Issues in Philosophy Blog: “To Slay a Specter: on the Founding of the Women Doing Philosophy Group in the Phillippines” by Cass Teodosio, […]

Sandy Grande: New Faculty in Social Justice Bring Diverse Voices to UConn

Excerpted from UConn Today The department is pleased to welcome Sandy Grande who will be a professor in the political science department with an affiliate appointment in the philosophy department. She identifies as a Quechua national and comes to UConn as part of the Native American and Indigenous studies cluster hire. Previously, Grande was a […]

Stewart Shapiro in 2019 Philosopher’s Annual

Stewart Shapiro’s article, ‘Actual and Potential Infinity,’ co-authored with Oystein Linnebo, and published in Nous, vol. 53 (pp. 160-191), has been selected by The Philosopher’s Annual for inclusion as one of the ten best philosophy articles published in 2019. Abstract The notion of potential infinity dominated in mathematical thinking about infinity from Aristotle until Cantor. […]

In Memoriam: John Troyer

John Gordon Troyer (1943-2020) With great sorrow we report the death of Associate Professor Emeritus John G. Troyer, who died on August 11, 2020 surrounded by family. He was a beloved colleague, generous with his time, who took great interest in the work of the rest of the department members. He was always willing to […]