Author: Huenemann

Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication. This is just for students who have taken courses in the department. You should send in a 150-200 word abstract of your presentation by March 11th. Download the pdf with more submission details here:

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS-2010

I will add that last year this was a lost of fun. We had enough students for a special philosophy session, where discussion was freeflowing and good-natured. I strongly encourage philosophy students to submit an abstract of a paper they wrote for class last term, or one they are working on now.

… has extended its deadline for submissions until January 30th. Submit an abstract and present it at the University of Utah in March! Details on this page.

Read a book review on the topic here. Sample passage:

Though clearly fond of the bioethicist-physicians, bioethicist-philosophers, and bioethicist-legal scholars they interviewed, Fox and Swazey describe themselves as “critical of what we regard as the field’s deficiencies and blind spots.” They identify these as the use of dumbed-down teaching formulae, an insensitivity to cultural differences, and the tendency of American bioethicists to emphasize “individual rights, and rationality” instead of “community, and common good,” which are the values that Fox and Swazey favor.

Fox and Swazey claim bioethicists would do better if they stuck to policy and economic questions, but the reviewer isn’t sure why.

… according to Business Week:

The financial and climate crises, global consumption habits, and other 21st-century challenges call for a “killer app.” I think I’ve found it: philosophy.

Philosophy can help us address the (literally) existential challenges the world currently confronts, but only if we take it off the back burner and apply it as a burning platform in business.

See the TLS review of philosopher Roger Scruton’s new book, Understanding Music. An excerpt:

Just as facial expressions do not communicate something that can be understood so much as enjoin us to imagine what it feels like when we ourselves make such an expression, so too, according to Scruton, does some elemental aspect of musical experience enjoin us to engage our imagining in similar fashion. In this way, and because the experience of music is not, at least not typically, heard as a single expression, the imagination is forced to grapple with the musical shapes and forms as they unfold over time, following its movement as it echoes in, or is anticipated by, the movements of our body and rational imagination.