Ahmad will lead the discussion about “Local Satisfaction Guaranteed: A Presupposition Theory and Its Problems” by Bart Geurts (Linguistics and Philosophy, 1996).

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Blackboard Collaborate. For the link to access the session, please refer to the Meaning Group email.

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.

Our own Margaret Chui Yi Lee will present work in progress on the Cantonese NPI mat7zai6. An abstract is attached.

We will hold the meeting via video conference, using Webex. To access the session, please use the link below. For the password, please refer to the Meaning Group email.

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m75338adeaa915267e1a8c957d57b3730

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.

** CANCELED (COVID-19) **

Join us for a talk by Tyler Markkanen in the Logic Colloquium.

Tyler Markkanen (Springfield College)

Details t.b.a.

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

This week: Mengyu Hu, TBD

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/.

A Talk by Prof. Jonathan Prather (Wyoming)

** Canceled (COVID-19) **

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck College, University of London).

All welcome.

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

TBA

This week: Heather Battaly and the Climate Committee

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/.

COVID-19 related, Professor Meadows's talk will be rescheduled for the Fall.

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Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Toby Meadows (UC Irvine), this years visitor in the UConn Logic Group – C-ALPHA faculty exchange.

https://logic.uconn.edu/affiliations/

Details t.b.a.

All welcome!

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

The topic of this year’s conference will be Identity.

This notion has preoccupied philosophers from antiquity until today. This preoccupation has manifested itself in many ways, through problems that span across most areas of contemporary philosophy. Metaphysicians wonder about diachronic personal identity or composition as identity, philosophers of mind have in the past proposed the mind/brain identity theory, while philosophers of mathematics and logicians have been concerned with the logical relation of identity, or identity among different mathematical structures, or the metaphysical identity of numbers. Socially inclined philosophers have sought to account for minoritarian identities in philosophical discourse, and how self- and community-identity is affected or determined by factors such as gender and race. Philosophers of language have grappled with the identity of co-referring terms and the resulting Frege Puzzle, or vague identity.

The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of University of Connecticut at Storrs is very pleased to organize a conference in spring 2020 in order to discuss the many and often problematic faces of identity. We invite submissions on any of the philosophical areas mentioned, but also on topics that come from any other area as long as they are pertinent to the theme of identity, broadly construed.

We are very excited and honored to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Richard Kimberly Heck from Brown University. Prof. Heck will talk on issues of gender and sexuality.

For more information please visit https://philevents.org/event/show/79658.

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

Inner Speech and Self-Knowledge

This week: Lionel Shapiro, TBD

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/.