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.
Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Emerson
Philosophy 4900-001, Fall 2014
Charlie Huenemann
Mondays, 5:15-7:45 p.m., Main 201
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:
Call for Applications!
If you are majoring in Philosophy, and at least a semester away from graduating, you should apply for the Brett Blanch Memorial Scholarship. This is typically an award of about $500. If you would like further details, just see a Philosophy faculty member, or stop by Main 204.
Here is a thoughtful essay by Josh Marshall at TalkingPointsMemo.com by someone who was in a graduate program in history and then decided to become a popular writer. Some relevant excerpts:
…At one point in our conversation, he laid it on the line. “You need to decide whether you’ll be satisfied with writing for an audience of two or maybe three hundred people.”
Clearly, the correct answer to this was “yes.” And as Wood said it, then and now I have the sense he thought posing it in this way would get me back on track with a focus on the scholarly community we were a part of. But hearing it so starkly, in my mind my response was something more like, “Holy Crap, no way! That’s definitely nowhere near enough people. And worse yet, I know some of those people. And I definitely don’t want to write for them.”…
…For my part, for a while I figured I’d be one of those professors who professors and also writes magazine articles and columns. But eventually I realized that would mean I would end up mediocre at both. So I scrapped that idea and committed myself to making a career as a writer. After various false starts I was blessed, through a totally fortuitous set of circumstances, to be taken under the wing of the novelist and journalist James Carroll who among other things helped me land my first job in journalism. That was in 1998. The volume of work forced me to set the dissertation aside but kept myself enrolled for the next four years before finally carving out time in 2002 and 2003 to finish it and get the degree.
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