Author: Huenemann

We recently received this invitation from the University of Utah’s philosophy club:

“This semester, the philosophy club is focused on building a philosophical community within the undergraduate community in Utah. With this in mind, we have started a blog aimed at giving undergraduates a chance to publish their thoughts….[W]e are looking for contributors. There is no preferred theme; we are looking for anyone interested their writing their own thoughts, reflections, understandings, questions, etc. Overall we are looking for a wide range of posts from a wide range of people.”

Check out their blog at http://uofuphilosophy.wordpress.com/, and write up some of your thoughts to help build our philosophical community! 

 

 

Gerald Dworkin, a philosopher at UC – Davis, has been collecting witty and thought-provoking one-liners. He shares a good set of them here. Some samples:

Dead Certainty: Socrates without a question.

Nietzsche said there’d be eternal recurrences like this.

Spinoza– Wondering Jew.

 

For the last few years, USU has sponsored a team for Ethics Bowl. It’s like debate, but with less emphasis on “scoring points” than on providing a decent perspective on contemporary moral problems. (Well, in fact, that’s how you score points.) It’s a valuable, fun, and interesting experience. If you are interested, please contact Professor Holberg, or speak to any philosophy faculty member.

Explained, with admirable artistic flourish, by our own Dr. Kleiner — 

This blog gets more visits than one might expect – it’s certainly not huge, but we probably have 30 or so visitors a day on average, and since we don’t post all that often, that surprises me. But I received a notice that we’ve had a recent spike in visitors, and indeed it is true – yesterday and today we’ve had about 60. Why? Well, most of these views have been of a page we published 5 years ago – entitled “Judith Jarvis on Abortion.” Aha! ‘Tis the season for writing papers for Intro to Ethics courses!

(My other blog, huenemanniac, also gets a steady stream of visitors who are either writing papers on Lon Fuller’s Morality of Law, or they are researching the Collier brothers. It’s strange what ends up being a steady attractor of attention!)