All,
I realize you all should have received this email about this semester’s philosophy dialogue series, but rather than deleting it without reading it, I want to strongly encourage you to look through the schedule and participate! There are several sessions that are directly applicable to healthcare, and these discussions would be of interest to students considering any type of career in healthcare.
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Marilyn R. Banta, Ph.D.
(she,her,hers)
Pre-Health Advisor
Senior Lecturer
Department of Biology
Texas State University
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
(off) 512.245.3367
(fax) 512.245.8713
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Click HERE to schedule your
pre-health advising appointment!
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From: Provost <provost@txstate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:53 AM
To: Current Students <currentstudents@txstate.edu>; faculty <faculty@txstate.edu>; staff <staff@txstate.edu>
Subject: Philosophy Dialogue Series – Spring 2021
TO: Current Students, Faculty, and Staff
FROM: Dr. Mary Brennan
Dean, College of Liberal Arts
SUBJECT: Philosophy Dialogue Series – Spring 2021
Hosted by Texas State University’s Department of Philosophy, this eight-week online series will feature prominent guest speakers. Dialogues will be segmented into eight weekly themes:
- Sex, Love, and Intimacy
- Reasoning
- Isms
- Ethics and the Economy
- Searching for Meaning in a Dynamic Universe
- Environment (In)justice
- Phenomenology
- Mending the Social Fabric
All events are free and open to the public. Registration is required to attend each virtual event.
Week I: Sex, Love, and Intimacy
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Women, the Law, & the Legal Profession
Workplace Ethics Students
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Spectral Blackface: Fetishizing Monstrosity in the Ghost Tours of the American South
Whitney May (English)
Thursday, February 11, 2021
12:30 p.m.
What Can Nonmonogamy Teach Us about Healthy Relationships?
Guest Interlocutor: Christopher Hall (Alumni Philosophy Graduate)
2:00 p.m.
Where Academic Freedom Ends: A Panel Discussion
Moderator: Vince Luizzi (Academic Freedom Committee Chair)
Panelists: Shannon Duffy (History), Catherine Hawkins (Social Work),
Ivan Marquez (Philosophy), and Amanda Soto (Music)
Sponsored by Faculty Senate, Philosophy Dialogue, and The Academic Freedom Committee of the Faculty Senate
Week II: Reasoning
Monday, February 15, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Bad Legal Reasoning in Camus’s The Stranger
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Reason Under Siege
Josh Grimes (Dialogue Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks: Semantic Compositionality
Tori Cotton (Phi Sigma Tau)
Thursday, February 18, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Post-Truth? Misinformation and Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age
Michael Peters (Dialogue Student)
Friday, February 19, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Evil
Eric Gilbertson (Philosophy)
Week III: Isms
Monday, February 22, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Professionalism in Medicine: Part One
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Anti-Intellectualism, Populism, and Elitism
Evan Schmiedehaus (Dialogue Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks: Racism
James Attwood (Phi Sigma Tau)
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Professionalism in Medicine: Part Two
Workplace Ethics Students
5:30 p.m.
What is Paganism?
Pagan Student Fellowship
Thursday, February 25, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Sexism, Misogyny, and Women’s Work
Taylor Jackson (Dialogue Student)
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:00 p.m.
The Political Pulse
Carrie Crisp (Philosophy)
Week IV: Ethics and the Economy
Monday, March 1, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Ethics for Leaders
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Are Democracy and Capitalism Incompatible?
Isaac Horn (Dialogue Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks
Phi Sigma Tau
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Marketing the Medical Humanities
Workplace Ethics Students
Thursday, March 4, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Are Economic Reparations Morally Required?
Dialogue Class
Week V: Searching for Meaning in a Dynamic Universe
Monday, March 8, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Human Worth in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Meaning and the Emergence of Consciousness in an Evolving Universe
Devin Granado (Dialogue Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks
Phi Sigma Tau
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
2:00 p.m.
When Medical Professionals Treat Patients as Objects
Workplace Ethics Students
Thursday, March 11, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Meaning, Purpose, and the Brain
Madison Rhodes (Dialogue Student)
Week VI: Environmental (In)justice
Monday, March 22, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Environmental Injustice and Health
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Applied Ethics and Environmental Concerns
Josef Mathews (Dialogue Student)
5:30-6:30 p.m.
The Horrors of Scripture
Brandon Grafius (Ecumenical Theological Seminary)
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Ethics for Environmentalists
Workplace Ethics Students
Thursday, March 25, 2021
11:00 a.m.
Second Annual Lecture and Panel Discussion
"Philosophy of Technology/Pragmatism/Sustainability: Reflections Inspired by the Philosophy of Larry Hickman"
Followed by audience Q&A
Featuring:
Paul Thompson, Michigan State University, co-author of Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford)
Ken Stikkers, Southern Illinois University
Larry Hickman, Southern Illinois University
Sponsored by the Annual Ethics Lecture Fund of the Philosophy DialogueEndowment
12:30 p.m.
Toward an Ethic of Sustainability
John Fulbright (Dialogue Student)
3:00 p.m.
States of Confinement and Ecological Violence: Incarceration and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
David Pellow (UC Santa Barbara)
Co-Sponsor with Sustainability Studies, Biology, Political Science, Geography, Family and Consumer Sciences, and Sociology
Friday, March 26, 2021
11:00 p.m.
The Political Pulse
Carrie Crisp (Philosophy)
Week VII: Phenomenology
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
12:30 p.m.
The Phenomenology of Forms: Plato Revisited
Guest Interlocutor: James Attwood (Dialogue Graduate Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks
Phi Sigma Tau
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Phenomenology of Bluffing
Workplace Ethics Students
Thursday, April 1, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Foolin’Around: Humor and Play as Human Phenomena
Nathan Hagman & Nathan Vila (Dialogue Students)
Week VIII: Mending the Social Fabric
Monday, April 5, 2021
2:00 p.m.
Trust
Workplace Ethics Students
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Feminism and Care Ethics
Mia Ciaramitaro (Dialogue Student)
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Tau Talks
Phi Sigma Tau
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
2:00 p.m.
An International Business Ethics
Workplace Ethics Students
5:30-6:30 p.m.
How Do You Say “Feminism” in Tibetan? Buddhist and Local Theories of Gender
Jue Liang (Denison College)
Thursday, April 8, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Deliberative Dialogue
Rhetoric and Resistance: Beyond Slogans
Dialogue Class
Talk of the Times and Tau Talks are open forums led by members of Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy honor society.
The Philosophy Dialogue Series Program Endowment supports the Philosophy Dialogue Series and its outreach activities at the San Marcos Public Library. Co-sponsors of the Philosophy Dialogue Series are the American Democracy Project, College of Liberal Arts, Common Experience, Gina Weatherhead Dialogue Fund, Alliance, Step Up For State, Sustainability Studies, Alkek Library, Humanities Texas, National Endowment for the Humanities, ΦΣΤ ( Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy honor society), University Seminar, The New York Times, The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence, Honors College, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Vice President for Student Affairs.
If you require an accommodation due to a disability, contact the Department of Philosophy at (512) 245-2285. Accommodation requests should be made at least 72 hours in advance of the program start time to ensure availability.
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