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Welcome to the fall term, students returning or new! In addition to the great courses we’re offering, there will be philosophical events through the term. Keep checking this blog or subscribe to it (see the column on the left) to stay informed.

On Tuesday August 29th, at 7 p.m., our college is hosting the “Light on the Hill” event at the amphitheater just below Old Main. Philosophy Club will have a table giving away free books. Please come, meet friends, and get the academic year off to a spirited start.

In your classes, you will be expected to write some kick-ass papers. If you’d like some hints to bear in mind, you can check out my short offering here, or you can check out a much more thorough set of hints here.

We will be hosting the intermountain Ethics Bowl this year. If you are interested in Ethics Bowl – which is like debate, but aimed more at substantive discussion than scoring points – watch for announcements, or speak with your instructor.

If you go to USU’s homepage, and scroll through the banner images, you’ll see one featuring Al Roberts, Bradley Zynda, and Emma Wright! (Tyler Newton and Millie Tullis may be there somewhere too, but I can’t quite see.) Congratulations, USU Philosophy grads!

 

“Art Rules: Aesthetic Reasons, Norms, and Standards” will be at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art over May 19-20. Erica Holberg will be commenting on a presentation. More details can be found on this website.

 

Thirteen new members were inducted into the philosophy honor society last night, in our annual Ancient Ceremony on the Stoa of Achievement between the Tiki Torches of Wisdom, with the stoles placed upon the Horn of the Beast of Fortitude. A fun time was had by all. Congratulations, students!  More pictures here.

This Friday, April 21, from 3-6:30pm the Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies department will hold its annual Student Research Symposium.  There are two sessions focused on philosophy:

3:30-4:30pm, “Contradictions, Certainty, and Future Knowledge” in Main 115
– Catherina Aust, “Contradictions Present Possibilities”
– Logan Krebs, “Uncertainty is Imperative to Certainty”
– Emerson Isaac, “The Logic of Divination and Uncertainty”

4:45-5:45, “Philosophy and Literature” in Main 115
– Taylor Wyatt, “The Etymological Sub-creation in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
– Chasen Robbins, “Arguments for Theism and Evaluations of Popular Atheistic Replies to them”

Please come support your fellow philosophers!