Aaron Orlovitz: “I was a philosophy major until I dropped out and started squatting,” he says. Indeed, he is a smart guy who deeply understands philosophy, a theme that weaves in and out of his material. “A lot of philosophers try to define humor. Aristotle talked about it—how humor has to be relatable, how it needs to be ridiculous and all of these different things. Personally, I’m not sure that humor is a thing that even has a philosophy. I think that humor is a way to express philosophy. I think that you can use comedy and humor to make a point about something, about the way the world is, about the way your reality is, about even weird shit like how we know the things we know,” he says.”
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TODAY: Monty Python and the Holy Grail: movie night!
USU Philosophy Club
“But how do you know she’s a witch?”
Come celebrate Halloween by exploring the ontology of witches, through the ecstatic visions of Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
Wednesday, October 28th
Main 115
7 p.m. – all are welcome
(with introductory remarks by local witch experts)
Summer Research Internship
The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) invites applications for a ten-week paid summer research internship for undergraduate students (rising juniors or seniors) in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. The program will be held from May 22 to July 28, 2016 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. MURAP seeks to prepare talented and motivated students from diverse backgrounds, or those with a proven commitment to diversity, for graduate study. The program provides students with a rigorous research experience under the guidance of a UNC faculty mentor.
Each participant will receive:
· Generous stipend
· Campus housing
· Meal allowance
· Bi-weekly writing, communication skills and professional development workshops
· GRE prep course (and all necessary materials)
· Paid domestic travel expenses
The application will be available online starting November 2, 2015 and the application deadline is February 5, 2016. For more details about the program, please see the attached announcement. To access an application, or for additional information about MURAP, please visit our website at murap.unc.edu or contact Emma Kioko, Program Coordinator, atmurap@unc.edu
Spring 2016 Course offerings
Some course offerings of note for Spring 2016.
Kleiner will teach his usual slate of lower division courses, but will also teach the
Tolkien and Lewis course on myth. It is listed as a PHIL 4900 Special Topics course. Space is limited, so register early if you are interested.
Huenemann will return from sabbatical and will teach PHIL 3150 Kant and the 19th Century along with a section of PHIL 1000 Intro.
Holberg will teach 2400 Ethics along with 3580 Ethics and Economic Life.
Sherlock will teach 3500 Medical Ethics and 4530 Ethics and Biotechnology.
Steinhoff will teach 1250 Practical Logic and 4310 Philosophy of Science.
2015 Intermountain Philosophy Conference at Idaho State
It will be on the afternoon of Friday, November 6th. Stufents are welcome to attend. If you do plan to attend, please contact Professor Russell Wahl (see below), or contact Charlie Huenemann, so the hosts can get an accurate headcount.
Russell Wahl writes, “We will begin with a lunch in the Bengal Cafe on the second floor of the student union building on the ISU campus. There is parking in the lot next to the union, but I need to know how many out of town cars will be coming so that I can obtain parking passes for that afternoon. I can then have someone at the door to the union give out the passes.I also need to know roughly how many people will be coming to the conference so I can arrange enough food for lunch. As you can see, we have a diverse program beginning with a keynote address by Charlie Huenemann at one pm. I am also attaching the abstracts for the papers The sessions will be in the Salmon River Rooms on the third floor of the Student Union Building.”
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