Author: Huenemann

Lots of interesting questions and ideas in this interview:

Read the full article here, occasioned by the frequent assertions made by public figures that majoring in the humanities somehow leads to chronic unemployment. An excerpt:

The report shows that humanities and social science graduates earn only slightly less than their peers with degrees in professional fields upon graduation from college, and by mid-career the earnings of humanities and social science graduates surpass those of graduates with professional degrees. Humanities majors are also more likely to go on to earn graduate degrees, a move which takes their median annual salary up to $71,000. All told, it’s hard to see a degree in the humanities as a bad investment.

(h/t USU History department)

Aaron Orlovitz: “I was a philosophy major until I dropped out and started squatting,” he says. Indeed, he is a smart guy who deeply understands philosophy, a theme that weaves in and out of his material. “A lot of philosophers try to define humor. Aristotle talked about it—how humor has to be relatable, how it needs to be ridiculous and all of these different things. Personally, I’m not sure that humor is a thing that even has a philosophy. I think that humor is a way to express philosophy. I think that you can use comedy and humor to make a point about something, about the way the world is, about the way your reality is, about even weird shit like how we know the things we know,” he says.”

Read the Slug Magazine article here.

USU Philosophy Club

“But how do you know she’s a witch?”

Come celebrate Halloween by exploring the ontology of witches, through the ecstatic visions of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

Wednesday, October 28th

Main 115

7 p.m. – all are welcome

(with introductory remarks by local witch experts)