Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Corcoran defended dissertation proposal!

    Chris Corcoran successfully defended her dissertation proposal, titled “A study of linguistic categoriality with reference to Sherbro (Bullom) noun classes”. Congratulations, Chris!

  • Arregi and Riggle Promoted!

    Congratulations to Karlos Arregi and Jason Riggle on their promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! Way to go!

  • Riggle on TV!

    Check out Professor Riggle on the words of the year!  

  • Nunberg Colloquium on November 3

    Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information, UC Berkeley) will give a colloquium talk titled “On Having a Word for It” on Thursday, November 3, 3.30 pm at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Abstract: What does it signify that a language “has a word for” such-and-such a notion? For the general public, it sheds light on…

  • Meet the visitors

    Several scholars are visiting the department this quarter. Please give them a warm Chicago welcome! Elizaveta Bylinina (Lisa Bylinina) will spend this quarter in Chicago as a visiting student. She is  in a project on degree semantics in Utrecht Institute of Linguistics in Holland, but spend most of the time in Moscow with her family.…

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