“Philosophy calls us when we’ve reached the end of our rope. The insistent feeling that something is not right with our lives and the longing to be restored to our better selves will not go away. Our fears of death and being alone, our confusion about love and sex, and our sense of impotence in the face of our anger and outsized ambitions bring us to ask our first sincere philosophical questions.”
Category: Actual philosophical discussion!
Arina Pismenny: “Implicit Biases and Rationality”
“Implicit Biases and Rationality”
Arina Pismenny
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Utah State University
We all have implicit biases – basic attitudes that shape our value judgments. How do such biases relate to being rational as we guide our way through the world? Sponsored by the USU Philosophy Club.
Monday, November 12, 4:30 p.m. Main 207
All are welcome!
Philosophipalooza!
Holy crapola, we have a lot of events coming up! Don’t forget our on-going film series on gangsters; and also, Rachel Robison-Greene’s discussion TODAY about the ethics of in vitro meats. And there are more events to put on your calendars:
“Restoring Dialogue: Philosophy at Large” – Come discuss our fractured society, and explore ways we might restore dialogue across our many social and political divisions. Tuesday, October 23rd, 7 p.m., Main 304. Sponsored by Utah State Society for Women in Philosophy.
“Politically [irrational] Animals” – A panel discussion on the role of politics in our lives – and the night before election day! Speakers will be Erica Holberg, Arina Pismenny, and Rachel Robison-Greene. Monday, November 5th, 7 p.m., in Main 115. Sponsored by the USU Philosophy Club.
“All philosophers ever do is take sides and argue with each other!”
Well, here’s the graphic.
“Having Grandma for Dinner?”
Philosophy Lecture
Having Grandma for Dinner?
In Vitro Meat, Dignity, and the Ethics of Edibility
Rachel Robison-Greene
Postdoctoral Fellow
Utah State University
The production of in vitro meat through the process of cell culturing gives rise to the exciting possibility that we may soon be able to reduce or even eliminate the production of meat in inhumane factory farms. This technology is revolutionary in more than one respect—it also challenges us to rethink the moral parameters of our conception of edibility. What or who is it acceptable to eat?
Monday, October 15th
4:30 p.m.
Main 207
All Are Welcome!
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