- ECOM member Jenelle Salisbury and two first-year Philosophy grad students have formed the UConn-sciousness Club , which will be meeting this semester on Tues mornings [from 10AM-11AM in Homer Babbidge Library Video Theater room 1]. If you’d like to get on the Club’s listserv, contact www.consciousnessclub.net/contact.html
- ECOM has launched its Spring speaker series with two talks by Joshua Knobe (Yale) on Jan 26. Please check our events page for additional talks and workshop.
- ECOM members Bar-On and Ochs have a forthcoming joint paper “The Role of Inner Speech in Self-Knowledge: Against Neo-Rylean Views”, to appear in Teorema.
- ECOM hosted its 5th annual workshop on April 20-21, titled “Emotions and Expressions”. The workshop brought together researchers who are currently working on the nature of emotions and their development, as well as their social and moral significance, and the varieties of emotion expressions — linguistic and nonlinguistic, in both humans and nonhuman animals. The workshop schedule can be found on the “Emotions and Expressions” event page. Invited speakers include:
- Maria Botero (Philosophy, Sam Houston State)
- Ross Buck (Communications/Psychology, UConn)
- Marie Coppola (Linguistics/Psychology, UConn)
- Jennifer Fugate (Psychology, UMass Dartmouth)
- Maria Gendron (Pscyhology, Northeastern)
- Andrea Scarantino (Philosophy, Georgia State)
- James Sias (Philosophy, Dickinson)
- Somogy Varga (Philosophy, Memphis)
With contributed papers by:
- Gina Eickers (Philosophy, Berlin School of Mind and Brain)
- Arina Pismenny (Philosophy, CUNY)
- Razia Sahi (Philosophy, UCLA)
- ECOM hosted a talk by Josh Armstrong (Philosophy, UCLA) on May 4, 4-5:30PM in the UCHI Conference Room (Babbidge 4/209), titled “The Evolution of Non-natural Meaning”.
- ECOM hosted a talk by Jacob Beck (Philosophy, York) on March 2, 4-5:30PM in the UCHI Conference Room (Babbidge 4/209), titled “Chrysippus’ Dog Reconsidered: On the Detection of Logical Reasoning in Nonhuman Animals”.
- ECOM hosted a talk by Joshua Knobe (Linguistics/Philosophy/Psychology, Yale) on January 26, 4-5:30PM in the UCHI Conference Room (Babbidge 4/209), titled “Norms and Normality”.