Month: July 2019

Phillip Barron Won the Outstanding Student Paper Award of ASA

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Our member, Phillip Barron has been awarded one of the Outstanding Student Paper awards for his paper submitted to the American Society of Aesthetics conference in October. See the link below.

https://aesthetics-online.org/news/462297/Outstanding-Student-Papers-Named.htm

The paper, “The role of poetry in Daoist texts,” was his seminar paper for Alexus McLeod’s graduate seminar on Early Chinese Philosophy from last fall.

Congrats, Phil!

Ryo Tanaka Will Give Four Talks (in Japan and Austria)

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ECOM member and ECOM Summer ’19 Graduate Research Fellow Ryo Tanaka will be giving talks in Kanazawa University, Tokyo University, Forum for Young Philosophers, and University of Salzburg in the upcoming weeks. We wish him good luck! The titles and dates are,

“Normativity of Meaning and Theories of Linguistic Understanding,” the Annual Meeting for the Japan Society for Philosophy of Science, Kanazawa University, June 19.
“Knowledge of Meaning?: Reconciling the Epistemic Intuitions and Empirical Theories of Linguistic Understanding,” Forum for Young Philosophers, Tokyo, July 13.
“Do We ‘Know’ Meaning?,” Workshop on Philosophy of Language at Tokyo University, July 24.
“Knowledge of Meaning?: Reconciling the Epistemic Intuitions and Empirical Theories of Linguistic Understanding,” SOPhiA 2019 (Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, 10th annual meeting), University of Salzburg, Austria, Sep 18-20.