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3/8 Philosophy Prospective Students Day
Philosophy Prospective Students Day
Friday, March 8th, 202410:00 AM - 06:30 PM Manchester Hall10:00-10:45 AM Breakfast at Dog Lane Café
11:00-11:30 AM Team Grad Meeting (MAN 227)
11:30-12:00 PM Meet Philosophy Faculty (MAN 227)
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch (MAN 002)
1:00-2:00 PM Meet Philosophy Graduate Students (MAN 227)
2:00-3:30 PM Logic Group: Annual Logic Lecture (MCHU 201)
3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00-6:00 PM Grover Lecture: Casey Johnson (Oak RM 408)
6:30 PM Dinner (Location TBD)
Contact Information:Heather Battaly (heather.battaly@uconn.edu)
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3/8 Annual Logic Lecture: Denis Hirschfeldt
Annual Logic Lecture: Denis Hirschfeldt
Friday, March 8th, 202402:00 PM MCHU 201 & ZoomAbstract
Many mathematical principles can be stated in the form “for all X such that C(X) holds, there is a Y such that D(X,Y) holds”, where X and Y range over second-order objects, and C and D are arithmetic conditions. We can think of such a principle as a problem, where an instance of the problem is an X such that C(X) holds, and a solution to this instance is a Y such that D(X,Y) holds. I will discuss notions of reducibility between such problems coming from the closely-related perspectives of reverse mathematics and computability theory.Contact Information:logic@uconn.edu
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3/8 Grover Lecture: Casey Johnson (University of Idaho)
Grover Lecture: Casey Johnson (University of Idaho)
Friday, March 8th, 202404:00 PM - 06:00 PM Oak HallContact Information:Michael Lynch (mplynch@uconn.edu)
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3/22 Logic Colloquium: James Walsh (NYU)
Logic Colloquium: James Walsh (NYU)
Friday, March 22nd, 202402:00 PM MCHU 201 & ZoomJoin us for a talk by James Walsh (NYU)!
“Is the consistency operator canonical?”
https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/Contact Information:logic@uconn.edu
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3/25 Yuhan Liang - Dissertation Defense
Yuhan Liang - Dissertation Defense
Monday, March 25th, 202407:00 PM - 09:00 PMContact Information: More
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3/27 UCHI Talk: Julian Schloeder on the Inauthentic Self
UCHI Talk: Julian Schloeder on the Inauthentic Self
Wednesday, March 27th, 202403:30 PM - 04:30 PM Homer Babbidge LibraryAlthough these are common phrases, it is somewhat unclear what it is to “be something one is not” or to “not be one’s authentic self.” There is, after all, no other source of selfhood than who one actually is. One also owes to no-one a particular way of being other than to oneself. But given that therefore the self is its own’s only yardstick, how can there be an inauthentic self? Towards an answer, I explore a conception of selfhood as meaning-making. One’s self-narrative creates meaning from bare facticity and is hence is not just something we tell about ourselves, but it is how we articulate our very self. Self-narratives can apprehend themselves as more or less coherent meaning-makers, so a self can fall short of its own standards. From this theoretical standpoint, I explore how stereotypes inflict damage onto selves by standing in the way of meaning-making, and how coming out as a queer identity is to create meaning from incoherence.
Julian J. Schlöder is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut. They studied philosophy, mathematics, and logic at the Universities of Bonn and Amsterdam, receiving their doctorate in 2018. They are a co-author of the monograph Reasoning with Attitude (Oxford UP, 2023).
Access note
If you require accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at uchi@uconn.edu or by phone (860) 486-9057. We can request ASL interpretation, computer-assisted real time transcription, and other accommodations offered by the Center for Students with Disabilities.
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3/28 IBACS/BIRC Talk: Dr. Ping Li
IBACS/BIRC Talk: Dr. Ping Li
Thursday, March 28th, 202409:00 AM - 10:30 AMWe are excited to announce the next talk in the IBACS/BIRC speaker series. Our next speaker of the semester is Ping Li from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ping Li, PhD, is Sin Wai Kin Professor in Humanities and Technology, Chair Professor of Neurolinguistics and Bilingual Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University. He previously served as President of the Society for Computation in Psychology and Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation while being a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. Li’s research is focused on investigating the neurocognitive and computational bases of language acquisition, bilingualism, and reading comprehension in both children and adults. He uses digital technologies and cognitive neuroscience methods to study neuroplasticity and individual differences in learning to understand the relationships among language, culture, technology, and the brain. Li is currently Editor-in-Chief of Brain and Language and Senior Editor of Cognitive Science. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Format: Virtual on Zoom or join the in-person watch party in Arjona 339 with coffee and donuts!
Zoom Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArcOCrqDwsGtdnezJcZJypkorMVRwr600D#/registrati
*Note that you must register to obtain the Zoom meeting details. Please use your University email address
Talk Title: Naturalistic Reading Comprehension in L1 and L2: What can “model-brain alignment” tell us about its neurocognitive mechanisms
Abstract: With the rapid developments in generative AI and large language models (LLMs), researchers are assessing the impacts that these developments bring to various domains of scientific studies. In this talk, I describe the “model-brain alignment” approach that leverages the progress in LLMs. Along with recent proposals on shared computational principles in humans and machines for naturalistic comprehension (e.g., listening to stories, watching movies), we use model-brain alignment to study naturalistic reading comprehension in both native (L1) and non-native (L2) languages. By training LLM-based encoding models on brain responses to text reading, we can evaluate (a) what computational properties in the model are important to reflect human brain mechanisms in language comprehension, and (b) what model variations best reflect human individual differences during reading comprehension. Our findings show that first, to capture the differences in word-level processing vs. high-level discourse integration, current LLM-based models need to incorporate sentence prediction mechanisms on top of word prediction, and second, variations in model-brain alignment allow us to predict L1 and L2 readers’ sensitivity to text properties, cognitive demand characteristics, and ultimately their reading performance. Overall, our work highlights the utility of the model-brain alignment approach in the study of naturalistic reading comprehension at multiple levels of cognitive processing and multiple dimensions of individual variation.
Contact Information:crystal.mills@uconn.edu
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3/28 ECOM Spotlight Series: Aliyar Ozercan
ECOM Spotlight Series: Aliyar Ozercan
Thursday, March 28th, 202411:00 AM ZoomAliyar Ozercan (UConn, Philosophy) is going to give a talk on “Prepositional Attitudes.”
Contact Information:Aliyar.ozercan@uconn.edu
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3/29 Logic Colloquium: Ainsley May (UC Irvine)
Logic Colloquium: Ainsley May (UC Irvine)
Friday, March 29th, 202402:00 PM ZoomContact Information:logic@uconn.edu
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