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.
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