You’ll recall that two of the philosophers featured in the movie are Martha Nussbaum — who talks about the social contract while walking along the bank of Lake Michigan in Chicago — and Judith Butler — who has the conversation with the woman in a wheelchair. As mentioned in the discussion afterward, several years ago Nussbaum wrote a famous article in the popular political magazine The New Republic in which she criticizes Butler in especially harsh terms. It’s one of the most famous volleys in an intellectual fight in recent years. Here is a link to Nussbaum’s article…
Month: October 2009
Philosophy Talk
This past weekend Justin and I had a chance to attend a live taping of “Philosophy Talk,” a radio show hosted by Stanford philosophers Ken Taylor and John Perry. It was fun to be there as they taped it, it was a show on Mindreading which was partially an interview with Shaun Nichols (a philosopher of mind at the University of Arizona). This particular episode will not air till January but most of their episodes air live and people can call in with questions. You can listen to many of the past programs online at their website, they feature interviews with philosophers as well as discussions between Ken Taylor and John Perry about various topics. Check them out: http://www.philosophytalk.org/
They have lots of interesting things in their website but don’t miss Perry’s essays on procrastination: http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Examined Life: Follow-up
One of the philosophers interviewed in last night’s movie Examined Life is Kwame Anthony Appiah — he was the guy at the airport, talking about cosmopolitanism. Well, here is a column by David Brooks in the New York Times discussing Appiah’s most recent book, Experiments in Ethics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20brooks.html?_r=2
Movie “Examined Life” on Tuesday evening
The first philosophy movie night of the semester is tomorrow evening – Tuesday, October 27th. Here’s the info…
Movie: EXAMINED LIFE: Philosophy is in the Streets (2009)
When: Tuesday, October 27th, at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Rausch Auditorium
Info: The movie is a documentary by director Astra Taylor, and it contains interviews with the philosophers and theorists Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt, Martha Nussbaum, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Sunaura Taylor, Cornel West, and Slavoj Zizek. The film is especially concerned with the “practical applications of these thinkers’ ideas.
Discussion: Following the screening of the film there will be discussion led by Alisa Kessel from Politics and Government, Justin Tiehen from Philosophy, and Ariela Tubert from Philosophy.
This event is sponsored by the Philosophy Department, the Philosophy Club, and the Department of Politics and Government.
In addition, the Philosophy Club will be talking about the movie at their meeting at 9:00 on Wednesday in Wyatt 326.
Hope to see you there!
Call for Papers from Episteme, an International Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy
** CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY PAPERS, DEADLINE 11/15/09 **
Episteme, an International Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy,
announces the scheduled publication of volume XXI, May 2010.
Episteme will consider papers written by undergraduate students in any
area of philosophy. Papers are evaluated according to quality of
research, depth of inquiry, creativity, original insight and clarity.
Submissions should:
1. Remain under the 5,000 words maximum.
2. Include a cover sheet with the author’s name, mailing address
(current and permanent), email address, telephone number, college or
university name, submission title, and word count.
3. End with a Works Cited page in Chicago style. Please use endnotes
rather than footnotes.
4. Arrive electronically by midnight on 11/15/09 to the e-mail address
episteme@denison.edu as a Microsoft Word attachment.
Episteme is an annual student-run publication, founded in 1990, that
aims to recognize and encourage excellence in undergraduate philosophy
by providing students and faculty with examples of strong work.
Our May 2009 issue, volume XX, contained the following four papers:
“The Place of Book X in Plato’s Republic, by Willie Costello,
University of Pittsburgh
“A Gap in Kim’s Eliminative Argument for Reductionism,” by B.D.
Mooneyham, Kansas State University
“Rawls on Abortion: Adapting his Theory of Justice to the
Controversy,” Douglas Dreier, Cornell University
“Norm-Expressivism and the Frege-Geach Problem,” Megan Blomfield,
University of Bristol
Please direct all questions to the editor — Denison junior Sean Walt
— at episteme@denison.edu.
ASK Night: Alumni Sharing Knowledge
An invitation from Kris Hay at the Carreer and Employment Services:
Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) Night 2009
Thursday, Nov. 5: drop by anytime between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Wheelock Rotunda
Light snacks provided.
ASK Night is an opportunity for students to:
- Make contacts/network with alumni professionals in a wide variety of careers
- Connect with and seek advice from alumni
- Hear about what others have done with their Puget Sound education
Call for Papers: Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
A call for papers from The Hemlock Papers, a journal published by the Philosophy Department at the University of Idaho:
The Hemlock Papers is now seeking submissions for the Spring 2010 issue.
The Hemlock Papers is produced through the Philosophy Department at the University of Idaho. This journal publishes work by any undergraduate student with an interest in philosophy.
We are seeking papers on any philosophical topic. Submissions should be between three and five thousand words. Essays must be original, previously unpublished, and submitted while the author is an undergraduate.
Editors may require revisions from authors of accepted submissions.
Email submissions to hemlock@uidaho.edu by January 11th, 2010.
Submissions should include a title page with title of submission, author name, institution, email address, and postal address. For blind review, the rest of the document should only include the title and text. Email submissions in .docx, .doc, .rtf, .wpd, or .pdf formats. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the editors directly at the above email address.
Authors will be notified regarding submissions by March, 2010. Authors of accepted submissions will receive a gratis copy of the Spring 2010 edition of The Hemlock Papers.
Midsouth Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Another undergrad philosophy conference, this time in Memphis, and with a much later due date — January 10th, so you could submit something right now, or potentially you could submit a paper you write this fall semester. Anyway, here are the details…
Papers in any area are welcome. Submissions must not exceed a length of 3000 words, and must include a cover letter stating the author’s name, university or college, mailing address, telephone number and email address. Send two printed copies to:
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Department of Philosophy
327 Clement Hall
University of Memphis
Memphis
TN 38152
Papers for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference must be postmarked by January 10. Direct questions to the president of the Undergraduate Philosophy Club, Mollie Owens.
Western Canada Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Here’s a call for papers for an undergraduate philosophy conference to be held at the University of British Columbia on November 7th. The deadline for submissions is coming up really soon (this Wednesday, 10/14). So if you’re interested, send something off right away…
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CALL FOR PAPERS for the Third Annual Western Canadian Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference:
The University of British Columbia’s Philosophy Students’ Association
is pleased to host the Third Annual Western Canadian Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference. It will be held here on November 7th.
We are looking for papers that have already been submitted for an
upper-level class and that have done well. Submissions in all fields
of philosophy are welcome. There is a 4000 word limit, though we
prefer shorter papers (8-12 pages, double-spaced). Please submit your
papers by October 14th, 2009 so that our committee will have enough
time to select and inform the presenters. Please limit yourself to
one submission. We will provide at least two weeks notice to
presenters.
We will follow a blind refereeing procedure, so please ensure that
your name or other identifying information does not appear anywhere
except on the title page of your submission.
Files may be Word documents (.doc), Word 2007 documents (.docx), plain
text documents (.txt), rich text documents (.rtf), or PDFs. The
subject heading of your email submission should read: “Author: Title
(Topic)”
Please send your paper (and any questions) to: philosophy@club.ams.ubc.ca
Student Philosophy Talks
Two senior philosophy majors will be giving presentations on their summer 2009 research projects:
“The Tripartition of the Soul and Plato’s Moral Psychology”
by Jed Hafner
and
“The Politics of Language: A Research Survey of J. Searle, J. Butler, and J. Habermas”
by Andrew Fink
Wednesday, October 7th, 4pm
Wyatt 301
Refreshments Provided
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