Annual professional development workshop for new and continuing high school teachers certified to teach dual-enrollment PHIL 1101 courses under the auspices of the Early College Experience program. Please contact Mitch Green (Mitchell.green@uconn.edu) for further information

Join us for the Logic Colloquium

Dilip Ninan (Tufts)

“An Expressivist Theory of Taste Predicates”

Abstract:

Simple taste predications typically come with an ‘acquaintance requirement’: they normally require the speaker to have had a certain kind of first-hand experience with the object of predication. For example, if I told you that the crème caramel is delicious, you would ordinarily assume that I have actually tasted the crème caramel and am not simply relying on the testimony of others. The present essay argues in favor of a ‘lightweight' expressivist account of the acquaintance requirement. This account consists of a recursive semantics and a ‘supervaluational’ account of assertion; it is compatible with a number of different accounts of truth and content, including contextualism, relativism, and purer forms of expressivism. The principal argument in favor of this account is that it correctly predicts a wide range of data concerning how the acquaintance requirement interacts with Boolean connectives, generalized quantifiers, epistemic modals, and attitude verbs.

All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

In person event will also be accessible remotely.

The Meaning Group will meet online on Friday, October 8, 1:15pm-2:15pm to discuss van Elswyk (2021) "Reviving the Performative Hypothesis?". Mitch Green will lead the discussion.

We will meet in person in Oak 338. For a link to participate remotely, please refer to the Meaning Group email or contact the organizers.

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

As a part of ECOM Spotlight Series, we will host Charles Davis (UConn, Psychology). For event link, please email aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu

Masters Exam and Proposal

This meeting will focus on: what is the process of applying for jobs like? what should a c.v. look like? what are common mistakes? what is a cover letter and how should it be crafted?

In person event will also be accessible remotely.

Drew Johnson will discuss "Entrenchment and Disagreement in Morality and Politics: Reason, Passion, and the Point of Moral and Political Discourse" with response by Prakash Kashwan.

This event will also be livestreamed. To attend virtually, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ht11gv1LQN6nZUNYoPxk9A

For more information: https://humanities.uconn.edu/2021/09/24/fellows-talk-drew-johnson-on-moral-and-political-judgment/

Join us for the Linguistics Colloquium with Miloje Despic (Cornell University)!

The talk will be held online.

Details t.b.a.

https://www.milojedespic.com

https://linguistics.uconn.edu/events/colloquium/

General Exam and Prospectus

In person event will also be accessible remotely.

As a part of ECOM Speaker Series, we will host Prof. Trip Glazer (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Dayton). For detailed information and event link, please contact the Research Group Manager Aliyar Ozercan (aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu)

Join us for the Linguistics Colloquium with Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)!

The talk will be held online.

Details t.b.a.

https://sites.google.com/view/artemis-alexiadou

https://linguistics.uconn.edu/events/colloquium/