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
Ruth Millikan and Rocket Science
See the nice piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Ruth’s new book.