Job Talk

This week: Mitch Green

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

The Provost’s Distinguished Speaker Series fosters intellectual, professional, and personal growth and collegiality among the University of Connecticut community. This series provides an opportunity for our most recently-inducted Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors and Endowed Chairs to share advances in their expertise and engage thought-provoking discussions.

Dr. Lynch's work concerns truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology. The recipient of the Medal for Research Excellence from the University of Connecticut’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and grants from the Bogliasco Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is currently the PI of Humility & Conviction in Public Life, a $7 million project aimed at understanding and encouraging meaningful public discourse funded by the John Templeton Foundation and UConn.

Please access the below link to access the live stream:
http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/uyrei

The link to the recording will be posted on the Provost's website following the event:
https://provost.uconn.edu/events-and-recognition/distinguished-speaker-series/

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Prof. Dimitris Xygalatas (Anthropology) will give an interdisciplinary ECOM talk about his work.

We will be meeting on Friday, February 7, 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338. We will be discussing a recent Sinn und Bedeutung paper by Bernhard Schwarz and Alexandra Simonenko: “Decomposing universal projection in questions.”

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.

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Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Eileen Nutting (University of Kansas).

All welcome.

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

TBA

This week: Kensuke Ito, "Truth and the F-Game"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

We will be discussing the paper "The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal" by Roumyana Izvorski (Proceedings of SALT 7)

Domains and Parameters

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Join us for a talk by Éno Agolli (UConn) in the Logic Colloquium!

Éno Agolli (UConn)

Logical Nihilism

Logical nihilism is the view that there is no logic, or more precisely that no single, universal consequence relation governs natural language reasoning. Here, I present three different arguments for logical nihilism from philosophically palatable premises. The first argument comes from a combination of pluralism with the desideratum that logical consequence should be universal, properly understood. The second argument is a slippery slope argument against monists who support weak logical systems on account of their power to characterize a vast range of true theories. The third argument is a general strategy of generating counterexamples to any inference rule, including purportedly fundamental ones such as disjunction introduction. I close by discussing why a truth-conditional approach to the meaning of the logical connectives not only does not force us to reject such counterexamples but also reveals that right truth-conditions are far more general than the classical ones, at the price of nihilism.

All welcome!

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

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Wed., Feb. 26, 12-1:30pm
Austin 217 (Stern)

Please join Penelope Pelizzon for a poetry reading of "Animals and Instruments."

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Our own Ahmad Jabbar will be presenting on the retraction of epistemically modalized utterances.

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.