Read graduate student Drew Johnson’s recent article in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, “Disjunctive Luminosity.” *Abstract* Williamson’s influential anti‐luminosity argument aims to show that our own mental states are not “luminous,” and that we are thus “cognitively homeless.” Among other things, this argument represents a significant challenge to the idea that we enjoy basic self‐knowledge of […]
Nathan Sheff: “Wilfrid Sellars, Sensory Experience and the ‘Myth of the Given'”
Read alumni Nathan Sheff’s (PhD 2017) recent essay in Psyche, titled “Wilfrid Sellars, sensory experience and the ‘Myth of the Given.’”
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” […]
Michael Hegarty: A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality
Read graduate student Michael Hegarty’s recent publication in the Usinos Journal of Philosophy, “A Dilemma for Naturalistic Theories of Intentionality.”
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, […]
Lewis R. Gordon—Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization,” The Brainwaves Anthology (31 January 2021).
Check out Professor Lewis Gordon’s latest video “Lewis R. Gordon—Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization” where he discusses the publication of his latest book published February 2021.
Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization
Routledge, 2021
Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Fellowship Matching Challenge
Click Here to Contribute A “match challenge” has been made in support of the Ruth Garrett Millikan Fellowship Fund. Anonymous donors have pledged $1000, which will be contributed to this fund by December 31 if others have collectively contributed that same amount by that date. The Millikan Fellowship fund is used to support ABD […]
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. […]