New PhD Michael Robillard has been selected for a four year Research Fellowship in Philosophy at Oxford University in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. The project is the ERC Advanced Grant Research Project Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies.

Summer Institute in Philosophy for High School Teachers: Intellectual Humility in Secondary Education Background: Are you a high school teacher looking to incorporate Philosophy into your curriculum? The UConn Summer Institute in Philosophy is here to provide tools to help you develop either a semester- or year-long course in Philosophy, or build philosophical discussion into […]

The department is delighted to welcome Duncan Pritchard as a visiting professor for the fall semester of 2016. Among other things he will teach a graduate seminar related to his new book Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing, and will participate in Michael Lynch’s Public Discourse Project.

Professor Emerita Margaret Gilbert, currently Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy at University of California Irvine, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Margaret did much of the work she is being honored for during her 23 years in our department. https://www.amacad.org/content/members/newFellows.aspx?s=c

Michael Lynch, along with co-principle investigator Brendan Kane of the History Department, has been awarded a $5.75 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Public Discourse Project: Balancing Humility and Conviction in Public Life. The project is described on its website as “a research and engagement project examining the role that intellectual humility can play in meaningful public dialogue.” The […]

Philanthropist George Soros and UConn alum Gary Gladstein ’66 with his wife, Dr. Phyllis Gladstein, announced a $4 million gift to the UConn Human Rights Institute, the largest donation to the internationally renowned program. UConn Receives $4 Million for Human Rights Initiatives

A workshop on political violence and BlackLivesMatter, organized by the Injustice League and the Public Discourse Project. December 4-6 Registration and Calendar HERE

Here is a fun post from Drake Baer at Tech Insider

Philosophy Born of Struggle 2015 – UCONN Storrs Embodied Philosophy & Epistemologies of Liberation November 6-7, 2015 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, UCONN and the Caribbean Philosophical Association https://alain-locke.com/2015/09/07/philosophy-born-of-struggle-2015-uconn-storrs/