Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Kennedy won teaching award

    A big congratulations to our beloved chair, Chris Kennedy, who has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. The award will be presented to Chris at the Spring Quarter Convocation on Saturday, June 13, 2015, during the Humanities Division’s diploma and hooding ceremony. Congratulations, Chris! Well-deserved!  

  • Baglini defended dissertation

    Congratulation to Rebekah Baglini, who gave an engaging and successful defense of her dissertation “Stative Predication and Semantic Ontology: A Cross-linguistic Study” earlier today! Her committee includes Chris, Itamar and Lenore. Job well done, Rebekah!

  • Article: Why does Africa have so many languages?

    Check out this new Christian Science Monitor article, “Why does Africa have so many languages?”.  Our own Professor Salikoko Mufwene was interviewed to provide his expertise on the matter. http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Science-Notebook/2015/0421/Why-does-Africa-have-so-many-languages

  • CLS 51 Program and Abstracts

    The conference program for CLS 51 is now available with short abstracts at their website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/  

  • Congratulations Patrick!

    Congratulations to Patrick Munoz on the successful and engaging defense of his first qualifying paper, “Naming relations in the semantics and pragmatics of proper names”!

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