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Bulletin Contents
- Honors Courses of the Day
- Professional Development & Academic Opportunities
- Events
UNRULY WOMEN: PHILOSOPHERS, ARTISTS, & ACTIVISTS (Philosophy 3910.02)
Days/Times: Monday 3pm to 5:30pm
Professor: Kristin Gjesdal
CRN: 38857
About: A quiet study or the rowdy barricades? Contemplative life or activism? Art or philosophy? These are some of the questions facing women philosophers and artists in the modern period. Women philosophers and poets have written on politics, racial injustice, gender, and social issues. And they have sought to translate their thoughts into concrete political action. In the philosophical tradition, works by women philosophers have been ignored. In this class, we will discuss contributions by a number of bright and gifted women whose work presented -- and still presents! – a fundamental challenge to social injustice and established conventions. We will also discuss issues such as canon-building, inclusion criteria, and prejudices. The class will be an interactive, discussion-based, and fun exploration of a largely unwritten chapter in the history of philosophy.
About the Professor: Kristin Gjesdal is a Professor of Philosophy and an affiliated Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Temple. She has taught honors classes at Temple -mostly existentialism - for almost 15 years. She lives with her husband and children in the Germantown part of Philadelphia, though spends long summers in Oslo, Norway, where she is from.
RESPONDING TO EVIL (Philosophy 3910.01)
Days/Times: Wednesday 3pm to 5:30pm
Professor: Eugene Chislenko
CRN: 37746
About: The concept of evil is highly charged, but also obscure. What is it to see someone as evil? Is evil a psychological state, like anger or malice, or a kind of fundamental badness? Is real evil possible? Does the concept of evil play a valuable role, or would we be better off without it? Our answers to these questions are often pulled in different directions. On the one hand, seeing someone as evil can be a poorly motivated way of misunderstanding and dehumanizing her. On the other hand, we struggle to understand atrocities and other harms which seem beyond our grasp as anything other than evil. This course will look closely at some philosophical, literary, and political writings on the nature, possibility, and limits of evil; the extent to which a person or action can legitimately be considered evil; and the ethics of our responses to atrocity and oppression.
About the Professor: Eugene Chislenko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. After immigrating from the USSR, he grew up in Boston and New York City, and did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests are in moral philosophy and moral psychology, and in related topics in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy, especially Kant and existentialism.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
FIND YOUR SPARK! CASH PRIZE!
Temple’s Office of Sustainability is proud to announce that we will be organizing Temple’s participation in SPARK, a 24-hour (Nov. 8-9) think-tank style competition giving students the chance to solve real-world problems alongside professional engineers, scientists and corporate representatives. Hosted by Drexel’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, Villanova University, Temple University and national engineering company O'Brien & Gere (OBG), students will be asked to present solutions to meet industry needs. The winning student team will win a cash prize! The event will be held on Villanova’s campus, but Temple’s Office of Sustainability will provide transportation.
This is a great opportunity for students to interact with their peers at other Philadelphia universities, find internships and receive mentorship from professionals working in a variety of fields. Interdisciplinary teams will be comprised of representatives from all three schools. Each problem statement will have a sustainability component. Current clients for the competition include EPA, City of Philadelphia, and Comcast.
Participation in this event is a competitive process. SPARK will be open to all majors and Temple is capped at 20 students. Applications are due by October 26th.
Community Arts Lunch WITH PIZZA!
Tuesday, October 23rd, NOON (aka Pizza O'Clock)
Honors Lounge
Are you interested in any of the above? Because if you are, we've got a great use of your time for lunch on Thursday. Prof. Billy Yalowitz will be coming to discuss his forthcoming course which will bring together activist, artists, and communities to create art based on the life of the community. We are really looking forward to hosting Billy and looking forward to his course (Art Education 3911) in the spring. Come meet him! Tons more info in the flyer to the right.
EVENTS
Honors Spooky Lecture!
Friday, October 19, 6 PM
Tuttleman 101 (A haunted classroom?)
Did you know we have our very own Ghostbuster (aficionado) on campus - I urge you to click the photo to the right)? Honors alum and professor Jeff Boles will lead us down an intellectual journey of haunts and scares. In this talk, we will be exploring state of the art scientific findings related to parapsychology, the branch of psychology that addresses the investigation of purportedly psychic and paranormal phenomena (such as extra sensory perception, telepathy...). It's sure to be a spooky good time.
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