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… philosophy major, undergraduate researcher, pre-med student, displaying his wares:

Charlie Kurth (PhD, University of California, San Diego) will be presenting a lecture, “Fashion Models and Moral Realists“, on Thursday, February 17th (tomorrow!), 4:30-5:30, in Main 207. All are welcome to attend; no word yet which members of our faculty will be walking the runway. Also, as Dr. Kurth is a finalist for our position in ethics, he will be available for informal chats at these times: Thursday, 9:30-10:30, and Friday, 11-12, in the department’s large conference room (found through Main 204).

Philosophy major Carson Bessinger just had a paper accepted into Pacific University’s undergraduate philosophy conference (more details here). I believe this will be Carson’s second conference presentation. I’ve read his paper, “Aletheia and Qualia,” and I think it’s very good, even with all the Heidegger stuff in it.

I’ve posted a couple of new announcements for a conference and a journal on the link in our “ANNOUNCEMENTS” box, on the right.

“I’m afraid that I cannot recommend the submission ‘Euthyphro, or On piety’ for publication in the Athenian Journal of the Pursuit of Wisdom. I come to this view despite the fact that there are lots of things to like about the submission. For example, there is a neat point here about the possible difficulties in relating ‘what is pious’ to ‘what the gods love’. However, even here at its best the submission is ultimately disappointing…..” Read the rest here.

Some of you may already know that the Philosophy program is hiring this year. We’re looking for someone who is a specialist in ethics. Over the next couple of weeks, we will have three candidates for the position to campus. We warmly invite you all to come hear their talks and meet them informally.

Our first visitor is Dr. Peter Wicks, who obtained his Ph. D from Notre Dame and now is in a post-doctoral position at Princeton. He will be presenting a lecture, “The Concept of Evil in Recent Ethical Theory,” on Monday (2/14), 4:30 – 5:30, in Main 203. Also, he will be in our departmental conference room to meet folks informally at two times: Monday and Tuesday from 10 to 11. Please come meet him if you can!

We will also have visitors at the end of next week and at the beginning of the week following. I will post further details as they are established.