See the nice piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Ruth’s new book.
The Return of Work in Critical Theory
Colombia University Press, 2018
Recent appointments for UConn Philosophy Graduate Students
Emma Bjorngard-Basayne has accepted a position as Academic Advisor & Program Coordinator in the UConn School of Business in Stamford starting summer, 2018. Ralph DiFranco has accepted a position as Instructor in Philosophy at Auburn University starting fall, 2018. Hanna Gunn has accepted a position as Mellon Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt […]
Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge
Routledge, 2017
The Journal of Philosophical Research has a new home!
The Journal of Philosophical Research is under new editorial leadership with Heather Battaly as Editor-in-Chief, and Raja Halwani, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Peter Ross, Lynne Tirrell, and Liezl van Zyl as Associate Editors. JPR has a new home at the University of Connecticut. JPR has three main aims. We are committed to publishing first-rate articles on a […]
Jc Beall: 2018 Distinguished Shinhan Professor at Yonsei University
Jc Beall: 2018 Distinguished Shinhan Professor at Yonsei University Jc Beall will take up this honor following an independently planned collaborative research visit with the Yonsei philosophers and logicians in April 2018. Previous Shinhan Faculty and further information on the honor: https://uic.yonsei.ac.kr/main/academic.asp?mid=m03_01_03
Welcome Lynne Tirrell
We are delighted to announce that Professor Lynne Tirrell will be joining our department in the fall of 2017 and will also be affiliated with the UConn Human Rights Institute. Lynne is a leading researcher in the area of socially applied yet technically adept philosophy of language. Indeed, she may be said to have founded […]
Robillard and Strawser: Winners in Op-Ed contest
Grad alums Michael Robillard and BJ Strawser were among the winners in the American Philosophical Association’s 2017 Public Philosophy Op-Ed contest for their co-authored essay, “Are Soldiers Morally Exploited?” Ethical War Blog (Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace). See the announcement and bios of the two BJ Strawser.
The Internet of Us
Liveright/W. W. Norton, 2017
Welcome Heather Battaly
We are delighted to announce that Professor Heather Battaly will be joining our department in the fall of 2017. Heather specializes in epistemology, ethics, and virtue theory, is one of the leading researchers in the world on the concept of intellectual humility, and is a pioneer on the topic of epistemic vice. Her work influences […]