Expressive Communication and Origins of Meaning Research Group (ECOM) Advanced readings required. For readings and additional information on the Brute Meaning, Meaning-in-Context, and Meaning-in-MindSpeaker Series talks, please visit http://www.unc.edu/~dbar/

"The Epistemology of Essence" Our epistemic access to essence is a topic which has received very little attention. This is partly due to confusion surrounding the notion of essence itself, and partly due to the sheer difficulty of coming up … Read more

"Cartesian Consciousness Reconsidered" Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Alison Simmons(Harvard). Descartes (in)famously revolutionized our conception of the mind by identifying consciousness as the mark of the mental:  all and only thoughts are conscious.  Today the idea that all thoughts … Read more

Polanyi Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science For more on Phlip Kitcher click here.

Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers).

Chapel Hill Philosophy Speaker Series Talk by Verity Harte (Yale)

Maggie Little is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.