UConn Meaning Group

A brown bag is a one hour, generally (though not exclusively) intra-departmental colloquium, starting with a twenty to twenty five minute talk by a faculty member or graduate student, filled from there to the end with lively questions and answers.

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Nicole Cruz (Potsdam)!

“Disentangling conditional dependencies”

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

Title: Inquiry and Higher-Order Evidence

Abstract:                                                                                                                                                                                   What is the epistemic significance of higher-order evidence? Recently, philosophers have defended zetetic approaches to higher-order evidence, which appeal to factors related to inquiry and deliberation. According to these views, in response to higher-order evidence – for example, when you find out that an epistemic peer or superior disagrees with you concerning the answer to a question – you should open inquiry and deliberate upon the question further. While it can often be productive to deliberate or to double-check one’s reasoning when confronted with higher-order evidence, I argue that zetetic accounts are bound to be incomplete. They are unable to explain a range of important cases. Reflecting on these cases helps to make vivid a broader lesson concerning the relationship between inquiry and epistemic normativity. Epistemology never requires us to perform specific actions, such as evidence gathering, deliberation, or double-checking, even when these acts are required to settle the answers to our questions.

A brown bag is a one hour, generally (though not exclusively) intra-departmental colloquium, starting with a twenty to twenty five minute talk by a faculty member or graduate student, filled from there to the end with lively questions and answers.

Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)

The Social Epistemology Working Group (Also known as SEW or the SEWing Circle) investigates philosophical issues at the intersection of epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of technology and AI, and social and political philosophy. Activities include research presentations, reading groups, and external speakers.

A brown bag is a one hour, generally (though not exclusively) intra-departmental colloquium, starting with a twenty to twenty five minute talk by a faculty member or graduate student, filled from there to the end with lively questions and answers.

How did a philosopher of logic get involved in building an Asian American Center at a Public Research 1 University and in getting Asian American Philosophy within the American Philosophical Association? This lecture will tell this unlikely story through a docu-memoir of photos, film, music, and meetings with remarkable history makers. How can the critical lenses of Asian American history, culture, politics, and philosophy help us to imagine fresh possibilities and cultivate hope for the future for our nation?

Harvard University bestowed upon Kurt Gödel an honorary doctorate “for the discovery of the most significant mathematical truth of the century.” John von Neumann regarded him as the greatest “logician since Aristotle,” the only mathematician who was “absolutely irreplaceable.” His friend Einstein liked to say that eh went to the Institute of Advanced Studies “um das Privileg zu haben, mit Gödel zu Fuss nach Hause gehen zu dürfen.” This talk reports on progress made toward using animated logic puzzles, AI, and digital pedagogy to introduce a new generation to Gödel’s Theorems. 

A brown bag is a one hour, generally (though not exclusively) intra-departmental colloquium, starting with a twenty to twenty five minute talk by a faculty member or graduate student, filled from there to the end with lively questions and answers.