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Who decides what you eat?

Free movie followed by a food and ethics discussion.  4:30pm, Tuesday March 3 AGRS 101.  Hosted by our own Dr Holberg!

Click here for a flier and more info on the film: fed up flyer

If you are interested in joining Phi Sigma Tau (national honor society in philosophy), please tell Dr. Kleiner or me. We will be having our annual initiation dinner this spring. To find out more about PST, click here.

One of our students, Alex Tarbet, wished to share some interesting reflections on Poe and the Enlightenment.  Here is his brief write up of what is a larger paper:

Dr. Crumbley’s Poe class this semester is philosophically fascinating. At the end of his life, Poe wrote an enormous treatise called Eureka! It claims to explain the nature of God, the origin of the cosmos and, well, everything else. Some say it’s evidence of Poe losing his mind to alcoholism (I think they’re wrong) while others say it’s a massive satire mocking encyclopedia-writing Enlightenment geniuses who may have reduced knowledge to naturalism and, therefore, poetry to simian apings or fowl drippings. Quoth the Raven, nevermore. So, is it a satire?  Continue reading “Poe vs Enlightenment by Alex Tarbet”

RELS Panel Discussion

Many of our philosophy majors also have a deep love of classical languages. They will enjoy this article by Anthony Grafton –

Latin can save your life. Latin is infinite, and infinitely rich. We come to an end, but Latin doesn’t. Studying it gives us perspective, vision and inspiration. It’s not that every Paideian becomes, or should become, a professor. The humanities don’t work that way. Studying Latin, the way Paideia teaches you to do, makes you more human, in a special sense that can make you decide to pursue careers of many kinds. One of Paideia’s mottoes is: “Lingua Latina non est piscis mortuus”—“The Latin language is not a dead fish.” It sure isn’t.