Levente Szentkirályi The Ethics of Precaution: Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care (New York: Routledge 2019) Stephen Lahey The Hussites in the Past Imperfect Series, ARC Humanities Press, Amsterdam University Press, 2019. First book in English on the topic in over 50 years! Tom Meagher “Theorizing the Ideally Non-Ideal: Sanín-Restrepo’s Decolonizing Democracy and […]
Peimin Ni: MLA prize winner
Peimin Ni’s Understanding the Analects of Confucius, A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations. SUNY Press, 2017 has just won the 2019 Modern Language Association (MLA) Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature. Peimin received his PhD in Philosophy from UConn in 1991. The citation of the award reads: […]
Dorit Bar-On: NEH Fellowship
Dorit Bar-On has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to research and write a book on the origins of language. For more information about Bar-On’s research group (ECOM) see the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning webpage.
Essays on Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic
Oxford University Press, 2019
Junior position in Ancient Greek Philosophy: soft deadline of Nov 1
The UConn Philosophy Department is advertising an Assistant Professor job with an AOS in Ancient Greek Philosophy and an AOC Open. Apply here: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15043 Please note that the university advertising agency made some mistakes in the PhilJobs listing. Please go by the job description itself.
Susan Schneider: Artificial You
Susan Schneider’s new book is Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180144/artificial-you “AI, metaphysics, and the future of life in the universe―Schneider writes about the biggest issues of our time with an engagingly light touch, and enviable insight and clarity. Highly recommended.”―Huw Price, academic director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of […]
Michael Lynch: 2019 Orwell Award
Michael Lynch has been awarded the 2019 Orwell Award which “recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse”. A list of previous winners, including Noam Chomsky, Jon Stewart, Amy Goodman, Ted Koppel, Michael Pollan, can be found here.
Special Issue on Mitchell Green
The Austrian journal Grazer Philosophische Studien has just published a special issue devoted to articles responding to various aspects of Mitch Green’s research from over the last 25 years. The issue is entitled Sources of Meaning: Themes from Mitchell S. Green and is edited by Jan G. Michel. https://brill.com/view/journals/gps/96/3/gps.96.issue-3.xml
Jc Beall: Philosopher’s Annual 10 best articles for 2018
The Philosopher’s Annual attempts to judge the 10 best articles published in philosophy each year. Jc Beall’s “The Simple Argument for Subclassical Logic” from Philosophical Issues was one of those selected for 2018.
Recent Graduate Student Placements
After successfully defending his dissertation on April 22, Dana Francisco Miranda begins as a new Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Muhlenberg College starting in Fall 2019. Nathan Kellen successfully defended his dissertation, titled “Pluralisms about Truth and Logic” in August. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kansas State University’s Department of Philosophy. Jared […]