- ECOM members, Dorit Bar-On and Jordan Ochs, gave a joint paper titled “The Role of Inner Speech in Self-Knowledge” at a conference on Transparency and Self-knowledge at the University of Oviedo, Spain in June.
- ECOM hosted its 4th UConn workshop/conference on May 11-13, titled “Human and Nonhuman Animals: Minds and Morals”. The conference brought together researchers working on continuities and discontinuities in human/nonhuman cognition, emotions, social organization and morally relevant behavior, and implications for the human treatment of nonhuman animals.
Invited speakers included: Peter Carruthers (Philosophy, Maryland), Katherine Cronin (Lincoln Park Zoo), Hans-Johann Glock (Philosophy, Zurich), Lori Gruen (Philosophy, Wesleyan), William D. Hopkins (Neuroscience, Georgia State & Yerkes National Primate Research Center), Kristin Leimgruber (Psychology, Harvard), and Darcia Narvaez (Psychology, Notre Dame).Visit the conference webpage by clicking here to find titles and abstracts. - ECOM member Letitia Naigles is the receipent of a University of Connecticut 2017 CLAS Excellence in Research Award. Congrats Letty!
- ECOM hosted a talk by Paula Droege (Philosophy, Penn State) & Victoria Braithwaite (Biology, Penn State) on March 24, 4-6PM in Laurel Hall 201, titled “Beyond Analogy: Understanding Pain in Animals”. Click here for more information and an abstract.
- ECOM hosted a reading group on the topic of its Spring Conference: “Human and Nonhuman Animals: Minds and Morals”. Please see the reading group page for more information.