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/

See the review of the translation by Marcus Rossberg and Philip Ebert of Frege’s Basic Laws of Arithmetic.  

Dorit Bar-On has been selected as a fellow for the Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin (the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies) for Academic Year 2015-2016. The fellowship is for writing a book tentatively titled “Expression, Action, and Meaning”.

Lewis Gordon has been selected by the PhD program at the Birkbeck College of Law at the University of London to be the 2016 writer-in-residence. Here is some more information about this honor: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-research/writers-and-artists-in-residence/writer-in-residence

Here is Michael Lynch’s widely-shared article from The Guardian about why surveillance diminishes autonomy: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/07/surveillance-privacy-philosophy-data-internet-things

Three of us–Susan Schneider, Paul Bloomfield, and JC Beall–will be participating in the French Embassy’s “Night of Philosophy” in Manhattan on the night of April 24 to the morning of April 25. http://www.nightofphilosophy.com See the story in the New York Times mentioning Susan Schneider, Paul Bloomfield, and Jc Beall. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/arts/a-night-of-philosophy-12-hours-of-a-mental-marathon.html?_r=2