Jan
25
Welcome Back!
January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dear UPA’ers, Hey there, and welcome back for the Spring semester! I hope your breaks were restful and full of the comfort that only family and close friends can provide. Before we carry on with our normal weekly routine, I want to announce our new co-president: Kyle Landrum. Kyle attended meetings regularly and was consistently [...]
Sep
22
Metaphysics of Linguistics
September 22, 2011 | 1 Comment
Hey UPA’ers, This week’s reading deals with dualism and language. In their paper, Wolfram Hinzen and Juan Uriagereka argue that the faculty of language correlates with mathematical capacity. They argue for a higher-dimensional syntax that follows the same model of the hierarchy of numbers, which would mean that the physicalist could not account for syntax [...]
Sep
23
UPA’s First Grad Student Talk of the semester!
September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dear Philosophers, This Friday we are having our first major event of the semester! We are having our first graduate student talk by Tomas Bogardus. Tomas will be giving a talk on personal identity. We invite you to join us in our next meeting with all of your questions and comments: Friday, September 24, 2010 [...]