The Towson University Philosophy Forum
Towson University Philosophy
Forum
Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies
Linthicum Hall 219F
8000 York Road
Towson, Maryland, 21252-0001
philosophy_forum@towson.edu
Group Description
The Towson University Philosophy Forum is a student-run, SGA-budgeted
group at Towson University. Its membership consists of Towson students who actively seek to
engage their college
peers in philosophical discussions on campus.
We produce or co-sponsor many events on
Towson's campus in conjunction with the Department
of Philosophy and Religious Studies such as the Annual Spring Undergraduate
Conference, the Annual Fall Colloquium, the Wing-Chun Wong Memorial Lecture, and
the Ian Moore Memorial Lecture.
We also edit and publish
Towson's undergraduate philosophical journal entitled "The Journal of
Philosophical Ideas."
Our Fall 2008 weekly meeting
location and tme has yet to be determined. As soon as a room and time is
reserved we will inform the group through the e-mail ListServe. All are invited to attend
our weekly meetings and engage the group
in philosophical discussion and debate.
Philosophy Forum E-mail ListServe
The
Philosophy Forum has a new e-mail ListServe which we will use to inform those
interested about upcoming events,
lectures, trips, and weekly meeting topics.
If
you would like to subscribe to our e-mail list, simply send an e-mail to
Majordomo@lists.towson.edu
with the following command in the body of your e-mail message in plain text: “subscribe
philosophyforum-l” (in which the character after the dash is a lower case L,
not a number 1).
If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send an
e-mail to
Majordomo@lists.towson.edu with the following command in the body of
your e-mail message in plain text: “unsubscribe philosophyforum-l” (in which the
character after the dash is a lower case L, not a number 1).
If
you ever need to get in contact with the owner of the list, simply send an email
to:
owner-philosophyforum-l@lists.towson.edu.
Philosophy
Forum Executive Officers
The Journal of Philosophical Ideas
"The Journal of Philosophical Ideas,"
Towson University's only undergraduate philosophy journal, has recently been
published.
Free copies will soon be available in the
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies on campus.
Until that time a PDF version of the
journal may be downloaded
here.
Upcoming Philosophy Forum Events
*** Call for Papers ***
10th International Conference
on Ethics Across the Curriculum
Conference Theme:
The Ethics of the Family
Towson University
Baltimore, MD
November 14-16, 2008
What is a
family? What are "family values"? Is marriage a civil contract or something
more? Should persons of the same sex be allowed to marry or raise children? Is
there a natural right to have children? Is there a right to have as many
children as one chooses? What is child abuse? Should we license parents?
What are the rights and responsibilities of children (if any)? Is adultery
always wrong? Is voluntary no-fault divorce always justified? How do family
relationships differ between cultures or across times? These and other
questions prompt The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum to invite paper
submissions from scholars and practitioners in Philosophy, Family Studies,
Public Policy & Law, Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, History, and other
related fields dealing with ethical issues connected to the definition of a
family, the rights and responsibilities of parents and children, the ethical
and/or legal relationship between the family and the state, intergenerational
justice, gay marriage, adultery, divorce, family violence, etc.
The
Society selects conference themes in order to encourage faculty from the
relevant areas to submit papers, or other standard forms of presentation, but
submissions may speak to any issue regarding ethics across the curriculum.
Questions about possible submissions should be sent to the directors.
Submissions (either papers or abstracts) should be formatted for blind review
and sent by September 10th, 2008 to the Secretary-Treasurer of the
Society, Donna Werner, at
DWerner@stlcc.edu or by hard copy to Dr. Donna Werner, Instructional
Dean’s Office (BA 123), St. Louis Community College, Meramec, 11333 Big Bend
Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63122-5799. Phone: 314.984.7934.
The
Society publishes Teaching Ethics, and papers delivered at the conference may be
considered for publication either in that journal or in a
possible upcoming anthology on the ethics of family life.
Recorded Philosophy
Forum Events
On February 5th, 2008, Towson
faculty member Stephen Scales gave a lecture entitled "Connectionism
and Ethics."
Dr. Scales received his B.A in Liberal Arts
at The Eugene Lang College of The New School for Social Research in New York
City.
He then went on to receive his Ph.D. at The University of California, San
Diego in La Jolla, CA.
On April
18th, 2008, Philosophy Forum President Paul Kelly gave a lecture entitled
"Doxastic Responsibility: Reflections on the Ethics of Belief."
Paul is
currently a full-time undergraduate student at Towson University pursuing a B.A.
in Philosophy.
The full
text of the paper can be found
here, and the
audio file can be found
here.
Photographs from the TU Spring 2008 Undergraduate Philosophy Conference may be
found
here.
Page Last Updated:
August, 6th, 2008