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
- Peter Ludlow has accepted an offer to join the Northwestern Philosophy Department - 09 May 08
- Lance Rips (Psychology) has won a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship - 21 Apr 08
- Ekain Garmendia (Barcelona) will be a visiting PhD student during the Spring term - 31 Mar 08
- The PhLing workgroup will be meeting with Lance Rips (NU) to discuss his recent paper, "Nets and Hooks: Bayes Net Theories of Counterfactual Conditionals" - 01 Mar 08
- J. Adam Carter to give talk on the "swamping problem" - 27 Jan 08
- Contributions to the Midwest Epistemology Workshop will be published in a special edition of Philosophical Studies - 12 Nov 07
