Call for UTFs, Spring 2024

We are looking for students to serve as Undergraduate Teaching Fellows for Spring 2024. As a UTF, you help an instructor with a class, tutoring students, leading discussions, and helping out along the way. You are paid $750 for the semester. Preferences are given to philosophy majors and minors, but anyone is welcome to apply. Here is the link:

Philosophy UTF application

Applications are due by December 1.

Philosophy club Halloween, and walk-a-thon

Our next event (on Oct 31 at the usual time, 5, Main 207) is our annual Halloween party. Feel free to dress up if you want,dressing up as something philosophical is encouraged. There will be food. Because dressing up is a thing people do on Halloween, and because some people think souls are “spooky,” we will have a discussion about personal and practical identity. We’ll discuss: what makes you you? For example, here are some questions that we may discuss: Do you have a spirit or soul? What does “soul” mean? Are we just a collection of roles or “masks” that we play? Does who we are depend upon memory in some fashion?

ALSO:

Our club and the Effective Altruism club are hosting a walkathon to fundraise for charities on the Quad on November 16th from 3-6 pm! Effective Altruism is a social movement started by some philosophers who advocate for finding the most effective ways at helping the most people in the world and then tries to do that. The form lists possible charities – please take a look at them and choose which one you prefer by November 1st. Also, please let your friends know about it. If you want to, post the attached post below on your social media– it’s intended for Instagram stories, but there will soon be others for other platforms. I’ll discuss more on Tuesday about how donations will work.

Please vote on which charity to support by filling out the form by November 1st.