Students – I (Huenemann) will very likely be on sabbatical over 2015, January to December. This means I will not be teaching PHIL 4300 (Epistemology) in Spring 2015, which figures into the requirements for the Philosophy major. If you were planning on taking that, you should instead take PHIL 4410 (Philosophy of Mind) in Fall 2014, or plan on taking PHIL 4400 (Metaphysics) in Fall 2015. Or, if these options won’t work, please see your Philosophy advisor to work out a different arrangement.
Author: Huenemann
Calling for applicants to Phi Sigma Tau
We’re coming close to our annual induction of applicants for Phi Sigma Tau, the national honor society of students of philosophy. More details on PST here. If you are interested in joining please send an email to charlie.huenemann [at] usu [dot] edu.
Retraction: FLASH! Philosophy in ON!!!!
Main 207, 4:30 – 6 p.m. The line up:
Abigail Fritz: “Earn Your Salsa”
Madison Moss: “Phridge Filosophy”
Justin Solum: “Superheroes and Slobs”
Alex Tarbet: “Schopenhauer’s Music”
Though – still! – if you are interested in presenting your ideas, be sure to submit an abstract to the LPCS Student Colloquium. More details here! I would personally be interested in seeing a panel of student papers on 19th-century philosophy.
Another Fall course to consider
Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Emerson
Philosophy 4900-001, Fall 2014
Charlie Huenemann
Mondays, 5:15-7:45 p.m., Main 201
The hidden music in Plato’s dialogues
Tarbet forwarded a couple of links to me about a scholar who has found hidden musical qualities in the structure of some of Plato’s dialogues. This YouTube is a short interview with the scholar, where he sketches out the basic idea:
And this link is to one of his papers in which he shows more concretely what he’s talking about, in connection to the Symposium:
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