Welcome to LEMMings@Northwestern
LEMMings@Northwestern is a resource for local work in philosophy on Language, Epistemology, Mind, and Metaphysics.
Why LEMMings
In late November of 2004 Brian Weatherson (Rutgers University) was looking for a label for the areas of philosophy that he (and many others) worked in. He wrote at the time that:
"The best suggestions seemed to be that I have a purely disjunctive label. But “Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Mind” seemed to be too long. What we needed was a shortening. Maybe an acronym. But LEMM seemed boring. If we just add a suffix we could have a name. I know… LEMMINGS!"
The moniker has stuck, though we are still waiting for a job ad in Jobs for Philosophers saying “We want to hire a Lemming”.
Recent Updates
- Summer reading group has selected Sandy Goldberg's "Socializing Reliability" - 14 Jun 09
- Nathalie Monot (EHESS) and Carl Messenger (Edinburgh) will be Visiting Doctoral Fellows next year - 14 jun 09
- The 6th Annual Episteme conference starts in two weeks - 12 Jun 09
- Matthew Mullins will be a visiting scholar as part of the Edinburgh Exchange - 26 May 09
- Chris Kennedy (Chicago) presents "On Averaging" for the PhLing Workgroup - 10 May 09
- Peter Graham (UC - Riverside) presents on "Epistemic Entitlement" for the Philosophy Colloquium Series - 24 Apr 09
- The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome Fabrizio Cariani (PhD, Berkeley) to our faculty. - 16 Mar 09
- Spring reading group has selected Keith DeRose's "The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context" - 25 Feb 09
