PHILOSOPHY EVENTS
Fall 2013
The UMD Philosophy Association holds weekly events in LARTS 107 on Wednesdays from 4:30 - 7:00 PM. A schedule can be found below and our Facebook page is regularly updated. All are welcome! Events are free of charge!
Sept. 25 Ethical Dilemmas!" Our annual discussion session of classic moral problems. If you want some practice with this kind of thing, you should check out: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com (particularly the first three games and the "Morality Play" game).
Sept. 18 Planning Meeting!
Sept. 11 Corsair Fair 12:30 PM - 5:30 PM Stop by!
Spring 2013
May 1 Prof. Asher Walden will be giving a talk about epistemology in Asian Philosophical Traditions. End of the year! Laughter! Tears!
April 24 Prof. Tara Lyons (English Department) will be giving a talk on the film "Anonymous."
April 17 No meeting today--Monday Schedule!
April 12-Saturday April 13th Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society
April 10 Preparing for Relay for Life (Making Light sabers to sell)
April 3 Film viewing of "Anonymous" in preparation for Prof. Lyons talk on April 24
March 27 Philo. Association Game Night Fundraiser: Relay for Life for the American Cancer Society 4:00 - 9:00 PM Woodland Commons $5.00 suggested donation New and classic board games, music & conversation
March 25 Auditorium lobby from 10-3 Bake Sale: Fundraiser for Relay for Life American Cancer Society
March 13 Student Officer Elections, film viewing: "Stranger Than Fiction"
March 6 AIDS Quilt square, talking about elections, fundraising planning
Feb 20 Film viewing: "Paprika"
Feb 13 Professor Eckert will be giving a talk entitled "Why be one self when there are so many selves we can be?" She will be discussing Daniel Dennett's view of the Self and Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms' poetry and other writings.
Feb 4 Film viewing: "Kumare"
Jan 30 Planning meeting
Fall 2012
The UMD Philosophy Association holds weekly events in LARTS 120 on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 7:00 PM. A schedule can be found below and their Facebook page is regularly updated. All are welcome! Events are free of charge!
Deviant Logic Posse (advanced logic reading group): TBA
October 10 Film viewing: "Pontypool"
October 3 "Ethical Dilemmas!" A discussion session. If you want some practice with this kind of thing, you should check out: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com (particularly the first three games and the "Morality Play" game).
September 26 Film viewing: "The Philosopher Kings"
Road Trip Planning for the Dalai Lama in Providence on 10/17
September 19 General Interest Meeting LARTS 120 4:00 - 7:00
September 12 Corsair Fair 1:30-5:30 at the Campus quad behind the Maclean Campus Center.
Spring 2012
The UMD Philosophy Association holds weekly events in LARTS 113 on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 7:00 PM. A schedule can be found below and their Facebook page is regularly updated. All are welcome! Events are free of charge!
Deviant Logic Posse (advanced logic reading group): Wednesdays 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM at the Writing Center and at 6:30/7:00 PM LARTS 113.
May 2 Bill Murray Movie Madness Festival: Veiwing "Rushmore" (Friendship, Integrity, Artistic Integrity)
April 25 Bill Murray Movie Madness Festival: Viewing "What about Bob?" (Friendship, Philosophy of Psychology)
~Special Event~
Graham Priest (CUNY Graduate Center, University of Melbourne)
Live Skype Session
“Limit Paradoxes”
Tuesday, April 24 6:00 – 7:00 PM LARTS 111
Preparation Review: Monday April 23 6:30 – 7:15 LARTS 113
April 18 Bill Murray Movie Madness Festival: Viewing "Groundhog Day" (Eternal Recurrence)
April 11 Planning Meeting
April 4 Faculty Presentation and Guest Speaker: Profs. Jennifer and Michael Mulnix (Salem State University) will be giving a talk "Who is the Happiest Person." The meeting is in LARTS 117 (instead of 113). This talk is co-sponsered by the Honors Council.
March 28 Faculty Presentation: Prof. Phil Cox "Philosophy of Law." Professor Phil Cox will be giving a talk on the philosophy of law. He will discuss some general ideas within the field. This is a great opportunity for anyone considering taking the Philosophy of Law class or anyone interested in studying law in the future.
March 14 Faculty Presentation: Prof. Maureen Eckert "Paradoxes of Time Travel" followed by film viewing of "Donnie Darko"
March 7 Faculty Presentation: Prof. Catherine Gardner "Women in the History of Philosophy" Followed by film viewing "Agora"
February 28 Faculty Presentation: Prof. Andrew Rotondo "Disagreement and Skepticism"
February 22 Discussion: Ethical Dilemmas!!!
February 15 Film viewing and discussion: "Another Earth"
February 8 General Interest and Planning Meeting
Fall 2011
~SPECIAL EVENT~
November 4
"Ways of being Deviant" (Logic)
Charlie Donahue, Jc Beall and Graham Priest
3:00 - 6:00 PM LARTS 374
December 7
Prof. Asher Walden: Guest lecture on Confucian and Taoist philosophy. Last meeting of the semester! Planning for next semester, laughter, tears...
November 30
Prof. Tim Nulty: Guest lecture "Martial Arts, Embodied Intentionality and Merleau-Ponty."
November 23
No Meeting: Thanksgiving Break
November 16
Prof. Steven Baden: Guest Lecture, "Gnostic Legacies: Philosophical and Theological Musings."
November 9
Guest Skype-in: Prof. Ricki Bliss (University of Melbourne) "Vicious Infinite Regresses (Again)"
November 2
Preparation for Logic Event on Friday 11/4.
October 26
Love or Lust? A discussion and debate. Student discussion leader will be Gildas Robert.
October 19
Special Event! 4:30 - 5:30 David Chalmers (Australian National University & NYU) will Skype-in to speak on "Philosophical Zombies, Wild Thought Experiments and Philosophy."
October 12
Mystery meeting! A puzzle, dipped in riddle sauce and wrapped in a condundrum. Come for the unknowing, stay for the knowing.
October 4
What is Art? Prof. Eckert will guide us through questions and issues pertaining to the nature of art. Show and Tell meeting: Bring a piece of art, picture, website link, or other example of art that you like.
September 28
Ethical Dilemmas! Trollies, Murder Buttons, Infinite Pain or ultimate destruction?...decisions, decisions. Discussion leader Ian Saccardo will guide us through a variety of thought experiments.
September 22
Roadtrip to MIT for Noam Chomsky "The Responsibilities of the Intellectual Redux" https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258498564160149 Contact Philosophy Association (facebook): https://www.facebook.com/groups/107245902647562/
September 21
General Interest Meeting 4:00 - 7:00 LARTS room 113 Discussion and planning of meeting topics and activities this semester. Pot-luck snacks. Chomsky @ MIT 9/22 Roadtrip planning.
September 14
Corsair Fair 1:30 - 5:00 Cenetennial Way (shine) or Campus Center (rain). Join us at the Philosophy Association table!
Spring 2011 Events
The UMD Philosophy Association holds weekly events in LARTS 116 on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 7:00 PM. A schedule can be found below and their Facebook page is regularly updated. All are welcome! Events are free of charge!
May 4
Ms. Elle Benjamin (UMD Philosophy Major and graduating senior) will present her research for Independent Study, "Fundamentality and the Grounding Relation."
April 27
Matt Hogan (UMD Physics Graduate Program) will talk on Philosophy and Cosmology.
April 20
Prof. Tim Nulty will present "Embodied Intentionality and Chinese Martial Arts: the Myth of the Mental."
April 13
Special Event: Zach Weber (University of Melbourne) will give a talk, "A Paraconsistent Model of Vagueness."
April 6
"It's All so Vague" Professors Eckert and Donahue team up for a double presentation on vagueness and the Sorites Paradox. This meeting will set the stage for Zach Weber's presentation at next week's meeting.
March 30
General Discussion Session
March 23
General Discussion Session
March 9
Film viewing: "Exit Through the Gift Shop"
March 8
Special Event: Colin Caret (University of St. Andrews) presents a guest lecture on Newcomb's Paradox, 12:30 - 1:45 PM LARTS 112. At 5:00 PM he will present a talk on John Slaney's "A General Logic" in the Writing Center.
March 2
Film Viewing: "Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual"
February 23
Special Guest Speaker via Skype: Philosophy Bro He's "just a Bro who likes philosophy," and he's hilarious. The main topic of his talk will be Heidegger.
February 16
Film viewing: "The Bothersome Man"
February 9
General Interest Meeting
2010 Events
The UMD Philosophy Association holds weekly events in LARTS 117 on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 7:00 PM. A schedule can be found below and their Facebook page is regularly updated.
Special Event
Deviant Logic Symposium
November 19th, 2010
3:00 - 7:00 pm
UMass Dartmouth Charlton College of Business, room 115
Come see Graham Priest, Agustin Rayo, Jay Garfield, Richard Heck and JC Beall in a roundtable symposium on non-classical logic. We'll be livestreaming this event, so people across the world can watch and question these esteemed logicians.
Philosophy Association Events Fall 2010
December 15
Philosophy Study Fest: All philosophy students are welcome to join our group study-paloosa!
December 8
Film Viewing: "The Addiction"
A Philosophy doctoral student becomes infected by a vampire and addicted--to what? An interesting film by director Abel Ferarra.
December 3 (Friday)
Winter Fest: Join us at our table in the Campus Center from 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
December 1
Deck the Halls Competition: We have reserved the "cave" area in the campus center and plan to build a festive Plato's Cave.
November 24
No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
November 17
Film viewing: "The Cove"
The Cove is a documentary about a team of activists who set out to try to end the dolphin slaughter that occurs every year in Taiji, Japan.
November 10
No meeting--Wednesday 11/10 follows a Thursday Schedule
November 3
Professor Maureen Eckert (UMD) “The Strange Case of the Missing Dialogue: Plato’s Metafictional Philosopher”
Prof. Eckert will be presenting on Plato and Literary metafiction. She will be teaching a class on Paradox, Self-Reference and Metafiction next semester.
Abstract: Metafictional literary works are characterized as texts constructed such that they draw attention to themselves as works of fiction. Various narrative devices further this effect, including elements of self-reference, authorial intrusion, stories within stories, etc. Although this label tends to be applied to contemporary fiction, works from other eras have been considered ‘metafictional’, such as Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Homer’s Odyssey. I will propose that the curious chronological placement of dialogues from the Theaetetus through the Phaedo (and, perhaps, even further, through to the Parmenides’ frame) and the missing “promised” dialogue, the Philosopher, can be interpreted as a metafictional move. Minimally, I will suggest that the Apology, Crito and Phaedo are inter-textually positioned to be the Philosopher, although I think a stronger case could be developed such that the Philosopher extends circularly through the corpus.
October 27
Professor Timothy Nulty (UMD) "Why You Are Not Yourself and the Limits of Authenticity."
Prof. Nulty will be presenting on Heidegger. The title of his talk is "Why You Are Not Yourself and the Limits of Authenticity." Professor Nulty will be teaching a class on Heidegger next semester, as well as an existentialism & phenomenology class. Those of you interested in Heidegger/Existentialism in general should definitely plan on attending!
October 20
Film Viewing: “Unmistaken Child”
This documentary follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation."
October 13
Professor Asher Walden (UMD) “Spinoza’s Ethics”
Prof. Walden’s presentation will cover the first three books of Spinoza’s Ethics. Open discussion will follow.
Here is some info on Spinoza
October 6
Film viewing: “Intacto”
September 29
Film Viewing “The Examined Life”
Filmmaker Astra Taylor explores the application of contemporary philosophy to everyday life by speaking with leading philosophers in settings that underscore the tangible relevance of their theories. Taylor's subjects include Princeton University professor Peter Singer who discusses the ethics of consumption -- while strolling amid the sumptuous luxury of Fifth Avenue. Taylor also interviews Cornel West, Michael Hardt, Judith Butler and others."
September 22
General Interest meeting
September 15
Colin Caret (University of St. Andrews) “Bridging the Modal-Relevant Divide”
Abstract: Modal and relevant logics were forged in the furnace of non-classical semantics, yet there is an important sense in which -- despite much common ground -- they remain incompatible paradigms. This talk is an attempt to clarify where the two traditions part ways, and to use this to shed light on the nature of relevance. Colin Caret received his Ph.D. from UCONN and is presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Foundations of Logical Consequence Project, Arche Research Centre, University of St. Andrews
September 8
Student Organization Fair (Centennial Way)
