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’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 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.

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

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.  

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 […]

 The notes available here were produced by Dorit Bar-On in preparation for meetings of a reading group on Ruth Millikan’s Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information, and were lightly edited by Ruth. The notes were prepared for online publication with the help of Drew Johnson.

See an interview with Michael Lynch about his new book, Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture. Read an excerpt of the book in the fall issue of UConn Magazine.

Heather Muraviov and Taylor Tate co-authored “Black Women Philosophers Conference at the CUNY-Graduate Center,” which uses the pedagogical framework developed by Fanonian scholar Erica Burman to review the conference. Their analysis appeared in the “Black Issues in Philosophy” series of the Blog of the APA. https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/04/30/black-issues-in-philosophy-black-women-philosophers-conference-at-the-cuny-graduate-center/   Drew Johnson has two forthcoming articles:  “Hinge Epistemology, […]

Michael Patrick Lynch has been designated a University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. Michael is our fourth BOT Distinguished Professor from Philosophy, along with Ruth Millikan, Joel Kupperman, and Jc Beall. As the provost’s website says, “The Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor is the highest honor that the University bestows on faculty who […]