SSHRC Post-Doc at UConn

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Paul Simard-Smith has won one of Canada’s prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowships. He will spend two years here at UConn working on Logical Pluralism with Jc Beall as supervisor.

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Logic Group Workshop, April 26-27

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Workshop

The UConn Logic group is proud to announce its annual logic workshop.The workshop is organized around a researcher whose work has had a significant and lasting influence on the field.The remaining talks, invited and selected, will be given by critics or contributors to the field who were influenced by the keynote speakers’s work.

2014: Abstractionism / Neologicism

Neologicism pursues Frege’s goal of finding a logical foundation for arithmetic by replacing his famously inconsistent Basic Law V with different resources: so-called abstraction principles, understood as implicit definitions.Since the 1983 publication of Crispin Wright’s Frege’s Conception of Numbers as Objects, the literature developing and criticizing this program has exploded.The 2014 UConn Logic Workshop will pursue current work on this project.

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Workshop on the Evolution of Syntax (March 28, 29)

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A friendly reminder to mark your calendar for the upcoming Workshop on the Evolution of Syntax, to be held Friday, March 28, to Saturday, March 29. Presentations by Brady Clark (Linguistics, Northwestern University), Marie Coppola (Psychology and Linguistics, UConn), Ljiljana Progovac (Linguistics, Wayne State University), Ann Senghas (Psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University), William Snyder (Linguistics, UConn), Whit Tabor (Psychology, UConn), and Harry van der Hulst (Linguistics, UConn). All events will take place in the Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education, room 320. Free and open to the public. (Note: the UConn Logic Group will host its Annual Logic Lecture on the afternoon (1:30-3:30) of March 28, but in order to avoid a conflict, no Syntax Workshop events are scheduled for that time.) For further information please contact Mitch Green (mitchell.green@uconn.edu) or Ralph DiFranco (ralph.difranco@uconn.edu). The Workshop on the Evolution of Syntax is made possible by generous support from the Office of the Dean, CLAS

 

 

New Faculty Hires

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New Faculty and the year they start are:

Fall ’12:

  • Bill Lycan (UNC): visiting each Fall: Language, Mind, Epistemology

Fall ’13:

  • Lewis Gordon (formerly Temple): Africana, Existentialism, Social/Political
  • Mitch Green (formerly UVa): Language, Mind, Aesthetics
  • Susan Schneider (formerly Penn): Mind, Language
  • David Ripley (formerly Melbourne postdoc): Logic, Language
  • Suzy Killmister (formerly Massey): Political, Moral
  • Daniel Silvermint (formerly McGill postdoc): Political, Feminist

Fall ’14

  • Dorit Bar-On (formerly UNC): Language, Mind, Meta-ethics
  • Keith Simmons (formerly UNC): Logic, Language