Grad student Phillip Barron wins book award for philosophical poetry Philosophy graduate student Phillip Barron will receive the 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for his book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015). The Guillén Award, given by the Caribbean Philosophical Association, recognizes contributions to philosophical literature. The award will be […]
First Things First: Why I Study Philosophy
On Evidence in Philosophy
Oxford University Press, 2019
Why Study Philosophy?
From an interview with legendary investor and philanthropist Bill Miller. Q: What advice would you give students about areas of study and being prepared for the working world? I was recently giving a talk at a conference, and there was a speaker there who specialized in disruptive technologies and had a PhD in computer science. […]
Susan Schneider: Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Library of Congress
Susan Schneider has just begun a four-month appointment as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in The John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. The award is to enable her to pursue a research project entitled “Mind Design: Artificial Intelligence, Brain Enhancement, and the Nature of the Self.” She will confab with other top scholars, […]
Philosophy Department Published Books (2018):
We are pleased to share our Faculty’s published works in 2018: Battaly, H. D., ed. (2019). The Routledge handbook of virtue epistemology. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Beall, J. C., Glanzberg, M., & Ripley, D. (2018). Formal theories of truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bragato, F. F., & Gordon, L. R., eds. (2018). […]
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction 3rd Edition
Routledge, 2018
Special issue on the work of Lewis Gordon
The Brazilian journal EntreLetras is doing a special issue on the work of Lewis Gordon. The announcement gives a nice summary of Lewis’s areas.
Michael Lynch and the UConn Humanities Institute
The UConn Humanities Institute, led by our Michael Lynch, is now a university-wide research institution. See the story.
Semantic Singularities: Paradoxes of Reference, Predication, and Truth
Oxford University Press, 2018