I was fortunate enough to interview Anna Pechenkina, an international relations scholar here at USU who happens to be a native Russian speaker from eastern Ukraine, on my podcast. She is incredibly knowledge and incisive, and I learned a ton from her. You might also find this interesting in light of recent events. We in part consider some of the possible outcomes and ethical questions surrounding the conflict in addition to the history of Ukraine and some of the key figures on both sides of the war.

https://chass.usu.edu/philosophy/aggie-agora

I wanted to let people know that the next round of the Mormon reading group would take place on Wednesday after Spring Break (3/16) at 3:30pm. We will meet at the department office in Old Main. We will read pages 28-64 in the book.

I know that this is short notice but will not come as a huge surprise to you: we are meeting tomorrow for the Mormon Theological Introduction reading group tomorrow at 2:30. We will meet by the Philosophy/Comm Study office. I am looking forward to discussing the Introduction and first three chapters of the book.

This semester, we are reading a theological work on Mormon in the Book of Mormon. It is written by a philosopher, and it’s about the concept of apocalypse, so that’s always fun. If you are interested, here is the link to the book:

We are going to meet next week. I wanted to take a quick poll to see when we could get as many people as are interested in coming. Here are the potential options. I set the options for next week, but the pattern would be to meet once every other week when the philosophy club is not meeting.

We have now put out the podcast I did about Christian universalism. Universalism in the Christian context is the belief that eventually everyone will go to Heaven and that no one will be stuck in Hell forever. If this sounds interesting to you, please listen!

https://chass.usu.edu/philosophy/aggie-agora

We have new episodes of Aggie Agora out this semester. We already have both parts of my conversation with Dr. Eileen Nutting about mathematical platonism.

https://chass.usu.edu/philosophy/aggie-agora

Instead of meeting today for the Korsgaard reading group, we will meet next week (Nov. 2) and discuss the readings then. We will read to page 60.

I know that I have already posted this link before, but since we are meeting next week to discuss this podcast, I thought I would link to it again (10/19, 4:00pm, ESCL 053). I am excited to have a conversation about this topic!

https://chass.usu.edu/philosophy/aggie-agora

Hello everyone,

We are meeting for the Korsgaard reading group Tuesday at 4 in ESLC 053. We are reading the first thirty pages or so of Christine Korsgaard’s Sources of Normativity. Everyone is welcome!

Hello everyone,

I hope your semesters are going well. A few students and I are going to start a reading group this semester. We were thinking of reading Christine Korsgaard’s Sources of Normativity or perhaps one of the new theological introductions to the Book of Mormon that former USU professor Philip Barlow co-edited. We are having our first meeting this Tuesday (10/28) at 4:00 on the quad by Old Main. I would like to invite you all to come. We can make final decisions about what to read then depending on what people are more interested in.