USUPhilosophy

The Common Literature Experience this year for incoming freshman and the community at large read Frankenstein.  Our own Prof Huenemann, along with Prof McCuskey from English, were the convocation speakers.  It was smart and funny and thoughtfully interwoven with the themes of Connections (the importance of a broad, liberal education, etc).

If you missed it, watch the video by clicking the link below (skip to 8:10 or so to get to Huenemann/McCuskey).

http://1560811.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/2014.mp4/0_jyn011w8/21990082

 

 

Explained, with admirable artistic flourish, by our own Dr. Kleiner — 

This blog gets more visits than one might expect – it’s certainly not huge, but we probably have 30 or so visitors a day on average, and since we don’t post all that often, that surprises me. But I received a notice that we’ve had a recent spike in visitors, and indeed it is true – yesterday and today we’ve had about 60. Why? Well, most of these views have been of a page we published 5 years ago – entitled “Judith Jarvis on Abortion.” Aha! ‘Tis the season for writing papers for Intro to Ethics courses!

(My other blog, huenemanniac, also gets a steady stream of visitors who are either writing papers on Lon Fuller’s Morality of Law, or they are researching the Collier brothers. It’s strange what ends up being a steady attractor of attention!)

All are warmly invited to attend sessions of the undergraduate symposium sponsored by the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies. The full program is here:

LPCS symposium

And here is the Philosophy session:

5:15 – 6:15: “German philosophy and beyond”
Room 207
Moderator: Harrison Kleiner

Alex Tarbet, “Schopenhauer’s Blues”

Alan (Gregory) Henderson, “Hegel and the Internet”

(and here’s the “beyond” part!)

Taylor Halvorson, “A visually determined Deutschland”

Curious students may find this of intellectual interest. This evening (Wednesday) there is an opening at the Art Museum on campus featuring visual art and music related to theosophy, a strange late 19th-/early 20th-century movement composed of elements from philosophy, mystical religion, science (sort of), and other fringy things like seances and alchemy. Here is a link to the opening reception, which will feature a performance by the Fry Street Quartet, and here is a link to the schedule of a symposium on the next day, Thursday, in case you want to learn even more!