The new anthology from Oxford, Composition as Identity, edited by A.J. Cotnoir (St. Andrews) and Donald L. M. Baxter (UConn) is now available. UK site USA site  

Lewis Gordon in Philosophy and Jane Gordon in Political Science are two of the editors of a new series from Rowman and Littlefield on Global Critical Caribbean Thought. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/global-critical-caribbean-thought/

Check out Daniel Silvermint’s going-viral post about “thoughts and habits that make work and life harder” http://dailynous.com/2014/08/21/grad-traps-guest-post-by-daniel-silvermint/

The Philosopher’s Annual has selected Jc Beall’s “Free of Detachment: Logic, Rationality, and Gluts” in Noûs as one of the 10 best papers of 2013.

Paul Bloomfield’s The Virtues of Happiness: A Theory of the Good Life has just been released. Here’s the website: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-virtues-of-happiness-9780199827367?cc=us&lang=en&

Samuel C. Wheeler III is the author of Neo-Davidsonian Metaphysics: From the True to the Good. Check it out at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415857284 Read a review at http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/49211-neo-davidsonian-metaphysics-from-the-true-to-the-good/

Ruth Garrett Millikan has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. See the list of 2014 Fellows.

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. http://uwphilnews.wordpress.com  

Hallie Liberto has accepted an appointment in Princeton’s University Center for Human Values as Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow for academic year 2014-15. She will be organizing a workshop in February 2015 on promises.

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: […]