The Philosophy Department at UConn is internationally recognized as a top place to do research in a wide variety of areas in philosophy, including: Aesthetics, Africana Philosophy, Decolonial Philosophy, Epistemology (Formal and Social), Existentialism and Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Indigenous Philosophy, Metaphysics, Latin American and Latinx Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Philosophies of Mind and Language, Philosophies of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Human Sciences, Philosophy of Race and Racism, Philosophy of Science, Social and Political Philosophy, and more.
The department is also a leader in public philosophy, with members addressing topics such as the ethics of artificial intelligence, language and genocide, political epistemology, and shifting the geography of reason. Four peer-review journals are headquartered here: Journal of Philosophical Research, Philosophia, Philosophy and Global Affairs, and, as of 2023, Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
Recent PhDs have secured positions at St. Andrews University, Oxford University, Notre Dame University, the University of Oslo, Kuwait University, Gonzaga University, the University of Delhi, Lewis & Clark College, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the University of Memphis, Grand Valley State University, the University of California at Merced, Fairfield University, the University of Iowa, the University of Idaho, the University of Kentucky, the University of Konstanz, Monash University, Yonsei University, the University of Tokyo, Muhlenberg College, Sam Houston State University, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of California-Merced, TPX Communications, Cambridge Semantics, and Cycorp. Our doctoral students are a global community from Argentina, China, Egypt, India, Ireland, Turkey, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom, as well as the U.S.
The undergraduate major and minor has a stellar record of preparing students for advanced study in a variety of professional schools and disciplines, in addition to philosophy, and careers ranging from the entertainment industry to nonprofits, private, and public service.
Our department is also an attractive research community for international scholars, several of whom came on Fulbright scholarships from Argentina, Bulgaria, France, and Senegal, and others on special fellowships from Australia, Brazil, and China.
Featured Lectures on Philosophy
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Upcoming Events
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4/19
Logic Colloquium: Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin)
Logic Colloquium: Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin)
Friday, April 19th, 2024
02:00 PM
Zoom
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by
Jonas Raab (Trinity College Dublin)
“Modal QUARC and Barcan”
I develop a modal extension of the Quantified Argument Calculus (QUARC)—a novel logical system introduced by Hanoch Ben-Yami. QUARC is meant to better capture the logic of natural language. The purpose of this paper is to develop a variable domain semantics for modal QUARC (M-QUARC), and to show that even if the usual restrictions are imposed on models with variable domains, M-QUARC-analogues of the Barcan and Converse Barcan formulas still are not validated. I introduce new restrictions—restrictions on the extension of the predicates—and show that with these in place, the Barcan and Converse Barcan formulas are valid. The upshot is that M-QUARC sheds light on the in-/validity of such formulas.
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4/19
Psyche Loui (Joint event by ECOM Speaker Series & CogSci Colloquium)
Psyche Loui (Joint event by ECOM Speaker Series & CogSci Colloquium)
Friday, April 19th, 2024
04:00 PM
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4/22
Earth Café 2024
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4/26
Logic Colloquium: Xinhe Wu (NCSU)
Logic Colloquium: Xinhe Wu (NCSU)
Friday, April 26th, 2024
02:00 PM
MCHU 201 & Zoom
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for Xinhe Wu (NCSU)!
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5/3
Philosophy Award Ceremony
Philosophy Award Ceremony
Friday, May 3rd, 2024
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Oak Hall
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5/14
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of David Rodriguez
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of David Rodriguez
Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Manchester Hall
News & Announcements
- Hady Ba and Gregory Doukas: Academy of Advanced African StudiesPosted on March 12, 2024
- Mitch Green: Volume 51 of PhilosophiaPosted on March 8, 2024
- Margaret Gilbert: Life in Groups ConferencePosted on March 8, 2024
- Lewis Gordon: Fordham University’s 2024 Philosophy Suarez LecturerPosted on February 26, 2024
- Tracy Llanera: Featured in The Daily CampusPosted on February 26, 2024
- Tracy Llanera: Marginal Actors in Extremist MovementsPosted on February 21, 2024