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
- Northwestern Philosophy will host a Pre-Central APA Epistemology Conference focusing on the Epistemology of Testimony. - 14 Nov. 09
- CFP: First Annual Northwestern/Notre Dame Epistemology Conference. - 14 Oct. 09
- Fall reading group has selected Metametaphysics, eds. Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman. - 23 Sept. 09
- New Epistemology Brown Bag series begins October 7, 2009. - 15 Sept. 09
- We welcome Notre Dame professor Robert Audi, who will be visiting for the 2009-2010 academic year. - 15 Sept. 09
- Northwestern Philosophy has an open senior M&E position. - 15 Sept. 09
- Summer reading group has selected Sandy Goldberg's "Our Epistemic Reliance on Others" - 14 Jun 09
- Nathalie Monot (EHESS) and Carl Messenger (Edinburgh) will be Visiting Doctoral Fellows next year - 14 jun 09
