|
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
CLUB NEWS
News is now accessible
via our email list at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VSU-PHIL-REL
March 10, 2004:
The following students are the latest to qualify for Phi Sigma Tau Honors! See Dr. James about filling out your
membership paperwork!
Christopher K
Baker
Anthony L Bass
Amos
Coy Batts
Paul J Batts
Nancy L Brooks
Jessica L Brown
Gregory R Brown
Erica D
Burdett
Amanda T Butler
Shelby L Callaway
Traci L Carr
Crystal G Carter
Robert O Chandler
Kathryn B Childs
Chimaera N Cooks
Dallas A Cowne
Jonathan M
Craig
Doris M
Dempsey
Brittany K Dixon
Daniel W Dorsett
Jackson G Dove
Christina L Englehart
Rebecca M Evans
Calle M Fielden
Robin L Folsom
Diego F Garcia
Leisha Gibson
Tamekia A Glanton
Flynt S Goodson
Gerard T Gordon
Sara E Greene
Robert A Griffin
Lauren Guadagnino
Christina V Hay
Molly
R Johnson
Johnada W Jones
Casey Jean M Kennedy
Bethany A
Linville
Demarcus Marshall
Andrew T McClure
Bradley E Miller
Betsy R Morgan
Lori A Munson
Steven N Nelson
Kristen E Newcomb
Lyssa D Nickle
Stephen R Page
Nicholas G Palombo
Michelle L Pilcher
Kimberly J Pittman
Brittany S Sikes
Lisa C Starling
Opal L Sweat
Rodney W Terrell
Stephen R Townsen
Yulia S Vrandopulo
Nicole
J West
Amy M Whitaker
Jennifer E Williams
Andrea D Williams
September 3, 2003:
We just
completed another registrar search for our honor society, and the following
students are the latest group qualified to join our campus chapter of Phi
Sigma Tau! To join Phi Sigma Tau, you have to be in the top 30% of your graduating
class at VSU, and you must have taken at least two PHIL courses with an
average grade of at least B+. Congratulations!
Brandi N. Boddie
Karen M. Broughton (Boutwell)
Jacqueline E. Caldwell
Stephani J. Cave
Amber S. Daniels
April O. Denson
Nicole L. Jones
Dorothy L. Knight
Jason M. Lewis
Emily L. Miller
Beverly B. Sutton
Jennifer S. Topper
Corine G. Walker
Cocoa M. Williams
Last night there was a campus organizations meeting, a group of us from the
Philosophy and Religious Studies Club went to the meeting and got revved up
for the year. Next, we need to have an election for our leaders
(President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary). If you are
elected to these positions, you will be responsible for choosing events and
reserving rooms for our events on campus. You must email me if you are
interested in running for office! chjames@valdosta.edu And a special thanks to Jason Lewis, Brian
Campbell, Demarcus Marshall and Ben Speight who
came to last night's meeting!
Take care,
Christine James
Here's some nice pages of photographs to share!
The pictures of everyone at the Metaphilosophy
party that happened yesterday:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/metaphilall.htm
Pictures of students in classes in West Hall 104:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/inclass.htm
Pictures of the Philosophy Club movie goers:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/movienight.htm
Pictures of Ashley Hall:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/ashleyhall.htm
Pictures of the two cats who live under Ashley Hall:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/twocats.htm
We've also got updated summer class CRN information for you
too! The online Ethics and Health Care class has been created, and will
be CRN #50884. Here's a complete list of the summer classes once again, as
you get ready for the Maymester and the next summer
registration time in the first week of June. Keep in mind, these summer
classes are a great opportunity to do an elective or a required class for a
minor in Ethics or Philosophy!
50098 PHIL 2010 AFundamentals of Philosophy MW
06:00 pm-09:00 pm 35 27 8 James
50099 PHIL 2010 OKA C 3.00 Fundamentals of Philosophy - 20 1 19 Elder KINGSB
50097 PHIL 2020 A A 3.00 Prin
Logic and Argumentation MTWR 11:10 am-12:35 pm Peace
50884 PHIL 3100 IA 5 3.00 Ethics and Health Care - 30 0 30 Christine James A
06/11-07/29 WEB
50096 PHIL 4800 A A 3.00 Philosophy, Society and
Film MTWRF 11:00 am-01:50pm Santas
50670 PHIL 4800 B A 3.00 Ethics and Public Policy - 5 4 1 Michael Stoltzfus J 06/11-07/29
50758 PHIL 4810 A A 3.00 German Idealism - 3 2 1
Christine James A 06/11-07/29
50855 PHIL 4900 A A 3.00 Ethics and Film MTWRF
11:00 am-01:50 pm 10 0 10 Aristotel Santas
50100 PHIL 6120 OMA 3 3.00 Ethics and Public Policy - 15 0 15 Michael Stoltzfus J MOODY
PHILOSOPHY NEWS 2/27/03
Congratulations
to two new Phi Sigma Tau qualified students! Cocoa
M. Williams and Scarlet L. Correll will receive
letters of welcome soon!
Another
Movie Night is coming up, Monday, March 3, at 8pm in the UC Theatre! "American Beauty" got
the most votes in each of my classes, so that is what we will watch that
night.
HERE'S
WHAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER NEXT!
We also
have Movie Nights coming up on Tuesday March 18 at 7pm in the UC Theatre, and Tuesday April 22
at 7pm in the UC Theatre.
Here's a list of movies that
people in Dr. James' class were considering:
Comedic
satires on corporate life: American Movie, Kentucky Fried Movie
War
movies: MASH the movie, Dawn's Early Light, Rules of Engagement
Health
care ethics movies: Patch Adams, Awakenings, John Q
Matrix/Philosophy
of Mind movies: AI Artificial Intelligence, Memento, The Matrix (for people
who weren't able to take Dr. Hill's class on the Matrix, we would do that one
on a Tuesday)
Postmodern
movies: Armacord, Derrida
EMAIL THE
GROUP AND TELL ME WHAT MOVIES YOU THINK WE SHOULD SEE AND
WHEN!
Let's get some voting going on in here!
Also,
don't forget the lecture series on Iraq, Wednesdays 1-2pm in the New Science
Bio/Chem Auditorium -
March 5:
Iraq and the Middle East: Antecedents to the Current Crisis
March 12:
The Just War Tradition and the role of the US European Allies and the United Nations (Dr.
Jim Hill)
March 19:
Patriotism and Peace, and Alternatives to War
March 26:
Religious Rhetoric and War (Dr. Mike Stoltzfus)
April 16:
What Have We Learned? A Summary Panel Discussion
And a big
congratulations to Philosophy Major Luke McMurray, quoted on page 4 of
today's Spectator! Whenever you notice one of us in the paper, let's try to
recognize them here!
Everyone
take care and have a great weekend!
Dr. James
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi
PHILOSOPHY NEWS 2/13/03
Hello
Philosophy Club! Happy Valentine’s Day!
There
will be a Philosophy Club Movie Night on Tuesday, February 18, at 7pm in the Powell Hall
Auditorium! By request, the movie will be Pulp Fiction. You can read
about it here: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912
And here is a good academic article about its postmodern narratives: http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/3/circular.html
Everyone
is welcome to attend!
We also
have a second movie night planned for March 18, 7pm in the UC Theatre; and a third movie night planned
for April 22, 7pm in the
UC Theatre. Email to let us know if you have suggestions for which movie we
should watch together! Use a “Reply All” to email everyone on the list.
Here
are some good sites to check out:
--The
Registrar’s calendar, with In-Process Grades at the end of February and
Registration in the middle of March: http://www.valdosta.edu/cgi-bin/webevent/webevent.cgi?y=2003&m=3&d=13&cmd=calmonth&cal=cal3&token=&sb=0&cf=cal&lc=calmonth&swe=1&set=1&sa=0&sort=e,m,t&ws=1&sib=1&tf=0
--Our
free trial of the Philosopher’s Index research tool online, only until 2/28: http://books.valdosta.peachnet.edu/ref/internal/trials.html
--Richard
Amesbury, who will be joining our department in the Fall of 2003, is active
in the American
Academy
of Religion: http://www.aarweb.org/students/default.asp
--American
Philosophical Association: http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/index.html
--And
of course keep checking the department site for all of our exciting news: http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi
If
anyone is interested in getting involved in the growing peace/anti-war
movement on campus and in the Valdosta area, here are some
important pieces of information:
--Standing
for peace in Drexel Park on Friday 2/14, 12-1pm
--Rally
at the county court house on Saturday 2/15, 12-2pm
--The
court house lawn has also been reserved for the following dates for those
wishing to stand for peace: Sundays 2-3pm,
Feb. 23, Mar. 2, Mar. 9, Mar. 16, Mar. 23
--Drexel
Park
is also reserved for Fridays 12-1pm,
Feb. 14, Feb. 21, Feb.28, Mar. 7, Mar. 14, Mar. 20, Mar. 27
The
main organizer is Michael Davey in the English
Department,
Philosophy
Club News for November 8,
2002!
It's time to be thinking about term papers, and you should also be thinking
about submitting papers to the upcoming undergraduate Philosophy
conferences! We have a list of six so far, with all the specific
information on how to submit papers, at the department website:
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/jobsphm2.htm
Scroll down, and you will find information on:
---The Seventh Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference
(Jacksonville, March 7-8, 2003; deadline for submission December 2, 2002)
---The Southeast Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Sewanee: The University
of the South, February 14-15, 2003; deadline rolling)
---Midsouth Philosophy Conference/University of
Memphis Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Memphis, TN; February 21-22,
2003; deadline January 14, 2003)
---Mephistos Conference in History, Philosophy, and
Sociology of Science (Madison, WI; March 6-8, 2003; deadline January 15,
2003)
---Student Conference on "The Local and The Global: Contexts in Science
and Technology" (Washington, D.C.; late April 2003; deadline January 30,
2003)
---Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (Forest Grove, OR;
April 4-5, 2003; deadline February 1, 2003)
I also have copies of the calls for papers posted by my office door, as do
Dr. Santas and Dr. Hill. And please feel free to
ask me any questions about the process, I'm here to help!
I also contacted Joe Newton last week about setting up a listserv for the
Philosophy Club (thanks to Ari Santas
for the suggestion) - hopefully that will be set up soon!
Have a great
weekend!
Christine James
Dr. Christine A. James
229-259-7609
Department of Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta
State
University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta,
GA 31698-0050
A special note from
November 7, 2002:
Samples of the Phi
Sigma Tau key and stole are in my office now, if
you would like to see what they look like come by Ashley Hall 110!
Here's the Philosophy News
for 10/28/02!
Don't forget the two movie
nights coming up tomorrow and next Monday; everyone is welcome, it is free,
and you can come to one movie or to both! Tuesday, October 29, 2002 from 6-10pm in the Powell Auditorium
will be a double feature of environmental movies (in honor of Ari Santas' Environmental
Ethics class)! At 6pm we
will show Erin Brockovich, and at 8pm we will show Local Hero!
Monday, November 4, 2002 from 6-10pm
in the New
Science
Building
Auditorium will be a double feature of movies about the electoral process,
popularity, and race! At 6pm
we will show Bulworth, and at 8pm we will show Bamboozled!
The new Department of
Philosophy website has added information. Go to http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
and scroll down and look for the 'Contact VSU Student Groups' button, and you
can see a full list of the VSU Student Groups and their officers. You can
email or call the people listed next to a group if you are interested in
working with them! The site also features flyers for our spring classes
and a new PowerPoint presentation on careers for Philosophy majors!
Because PowerPoint on the web uses some complex Java script, it works best on
Explorer, rather than Netscape. (You can also click on the movie box photos
to read articles about the movies we will see at the upcoming movie nights!)
If you need any tutoring
in the 2000-level PHIL or REL classes, you can contact these fellow students
for help: Mike Holt, z_mikeh@yahoo.com
and Jessica Corbin, jmcorbin@valdosta.edu
and Jimbo Hitchcock, meno11111@yahoo.com
This semester's new Phi
Sigma Tau Philosophy Honorary members have been
notified, a big congratulations to the 61 people who will soon be inducted.
If you didn't make it this semester, keep in mind that we will do a registrar
search again next semester after the fall grades are in. So, stay motivated,
and one more A in a PHIL class may mean you will qualify in the Spring!
(If you received a letter stating
that you have qualified for Phi Sigma Tau, but did
not receive an email from Dr. James, please contact Dr. James at chjames@valdosta.edu , it is
imperative that we be able to reach you by email!)
The Philosophy Club is
always looking for new ideas and new events to have on campus! Please
feel free to contact the President, Jessica Corbin, at jmcorbin@valdosta.edu or me with any
suggestions!
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
Philosophy news for
October 10, 2002!
Don't forget the
gatherings happening tomorrow, Friday October 11! A Symposium on Love
will be held in Ari Santas'
Ancient Philosophy Class, in West Hall 104 at 1-3pm, and then a party will be held at Mike Stoltzfus' home at 701 Pineridge Drive
(which is close to the corner of Azalea and Gornto,
off of the Loganberry
Circle.) Everyone is welcome, there will be food, drink, family, and probably a
few nice dogs!
The next Philosophical
Movie Nights have been set!
First, Tuesday, October 29, 2002 from 6-10pm in the Powell Auditorium
will be a double feature of environmental movies (in honor of Ari Santas' Environmental
Ethics class)! At 6pm we
will show Erin Brockovich, and at 8pm we will show Local Hero!
Next up, Monday, November 4, 2002
from 6-10pm in the New
Science
Building
Auditorium will be a double feature of movies about the electoral process,
popularity, and race. At 6pm
we will show Bulworth, and at 8pm we will show Bamboozled!
The quest to get the Phi
Sigma Tau honorary chapter set up on campus is
going well, the information services folks have done wonders with a long
computer search, and the informal count of qualified students is 81 - great
work! You will get more information soon!
We have arranged for
surplus furniture to be added to the "rotunda" in Ashley Hall, so
everyone who is a friend of Philosophy can hang out and study in that space -
two large table/desks, six office chairs, two smaller chairs, two smaller
tables, a bookcase, and a lamp will make it very comfortable; and it should
be in place sometime next week!
The Philosophy Department
website has been updated with more information! There are articles
about the movies coming up on the first page,
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
and there is a list of
information for all the Student Groups at VSU, at the url
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/stuorg.htm
(special thanks to Robin Vickery and especially her assistant Trisha on that
one!)
As always, just let me
know if there is something else you think we should include on the web!
Keep in mind, our Spring
class offerings will be a lot of fun - Jim Hill's 4800C on the Matrix, James'
4800A on Comedy, Santas' Business Ethics 3150, and
James' 3100 Medical Ethics/Health Care are all excellent and do not have any prerequired Philosophy coursework - we would all love to
have you in class! The Philosophy Faculty are
now setting up our Summer and Fall teaching schedules if anyone has any
questions about what will be offered, you can check in with us!
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
Philosophy Club News - October 3, 2002
Thank you again to
everyone who came to see Dogma on Monday night! It was a great success, we
filled the theatre, and we had a fine election turn out!
Congratulations to our new officers who are:
President Jessica
Corbin: jmcorbin@valdosta.edu
Vice President
Leonard Howard: wlhoward@bellsouth.net
Secretary Cocoa
Williams: cocoamichelle@yahoo.com
Treasurer Krystal Carver: bartedgar@msn.com
Also, big thanks to two
other Philosophy majors who have volunteered to serve in any
alternate/auxiliary/ex officio way we might need:
James "Jimbo" Hitchcock: meno11111@yahoo.com
Amos Batts:
acbatts@valdosta.edu
Thanks very much to Brad
Matthews who kept the by-laws! valis93@yahoo.com
And applause and thanks to
the former president of the philosophy club, Mike Holt: z_mikeh@yahoo.com
Our department website
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/ has been updated with a ton of new
information. We were thinking about showing Bamboozled or Erin Brockovich for the next Philosophical Movie night on
October 28, you can see the pictures of the movie boxes and link to articles
on each one: there is an interview with Spike Lee and a page with a list of
professors who write on the chemical industry like Erin Brockovich
Ellis - see which movie looks like a better pick and let us all know!
Maybe Powell Auditorium
might be a better choice of location for our movies, if the sound system in
the UC Theatre doesn't get fixed soon. We could also try to have
double-features, two movies in two locations on the same night.
We also added a list of
the major and minor requirements (also available in the Undergraduate
Catalog), and a link to Valdosta Community Events (the
community calendar Jane Osborn does).
Coming soon to the site
will be: a list of contacts for Student Activities Groups at VSU, and further
information on those who have qualified for Phi Sigma Tau
honors! (Jim Strickland is doing the programming for a search within the
registrar's information system now.)
Speaking of events in the
area, an important event is happening on Saturday - Dr. Linda Bennett Elder
from our religion department is part of Critical Resistance South, and they
are having a conference at the UC Magnolia Room on Saturday. It only costs $5
and you get food (both the kind that you can eat, and the kind that's food
for thought!) Please check it out!
"Organizing for
Justice in the Rural South: Beyond the Prison-Industrial Complex, presented
by Critical Resistance South. 10:00
AM - 5:00 PM, Valdosta State University, Magnolia Room.
Registration $5.00 includes lunch. Do you have experience fighting against
environmental racism? Concerned about attacks on immigrants? Do you know
someone in prison? Do you want to connect with others across the rural South?
Call Bob Elder for further information at 229-245-8036."
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
Philosophy Club news 9/27/02!
Remember, DOGMA Monday
night 9/30/02
in the UC Theatre at 8pm!
All the upper-number
spring Philosophy classes have fliers. I posted them in all the campus
buildings and gave them to all faculty members - if you don't see these
fliers, email me to let me know and I will make sure they get out into the
world!
PHIL 3100 Ethics and
Health Care (how traditional medical ethics has changed in the context of
nursing and postmodern/critical theory, James)
PHIL 3150 Business Ethics (Bhopal and
many other corporate decisions, Santas)
PHIL 4800A Philosophy,
Comedy, and Film (race, economic class, and gender in a lot of movies and
comedy tv shows, James)
PHIL 4800C The Matrix and
Philosophy (philosophy of mind, Descartes and Kant in the movie The Matrix;
with Jim Hill before his retirement)
I have three new pamphlets
about Philosophy that you are welcome to pick up:
Jobs for Philosophy
Majors,
How majoring in Philosophy
can help you get into graduate school or get a job, and
Classes required for the
major and minor!
Have now received three
email confirmations from three people for the four Philosophy Club officers
positions available:
President: Jessica Corbin
VP: Leonard Howard
Secretary: Cocoa
Williams
Treasurer: none
We do still absolutely
have room on the ballot, so please email me to run for office!
chjames@valdosta.edu We do have to go through
a balloted election process according to the bylaws, even if people are
running unopposed. To see a description of the duties, which are not time
consuming, see http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/pcave2.htm and scroll on down!
I noticed in talking with
a lot of students that there is a lack of "community" feeling on campus
and not a lot of information about student group activities. I checked in
with the secretary at Student Activities, and she promised she will send me a
complete list of all the student activities groups, their presidents, and
their email/phone as soon as she gets it done (hopefully in a week). As
soon as I have it, I will put it on the internet at our department website so
people can find the leaders of activities they would like to join - and so
the Philosophy Club can arrange some debates and co-sponsored movies and
events!
The Phi Sigma Tau information packet has arrived!!! The
Information Services people are working on generating a list of eligible
students! I'm really looking forward to it, and I bet a lot of you qualify
right away: top 35% of your yearly class (grads of 2003, 2004, 2005) and at least two PHIL classes with one A/A- and one
B!
There will be a Majors
Fair on Wednesday 10/2 at 10am-2pm in the UC Magnolia Room - stop by the
Philosophy table and say hello! There is also supposed to be lots of
free pizza and fun stuff at this event!
I also wanted to let you
all know that the American Association of University Women is sponsoring a
voter education event - Saturday October 12 at 9:30am in the lobby of the new
Sciences Building, they will have a demo of the new touch-screen voting
machines and a question and answer session with local government officials.
Sounds informative!
I also found that there is
someone named Jane Osborn who puts together a Valdosta
area community calendar, she sends it out by email (osbo1933@bellsouth.net)
and I will link it up to our department site as soon as I get the info!
Have a great weekend and
don't forget to come to DOGMA Monday night!
Christine James
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
September 20, 2002
Here's the latest
Philosophy Club - Plato's Cave News!
Our newsletter is now
going out to 168 students, and continues to grow - thanks again for your
interest and support!
We do still have room on
our ballot for Philosophy Club officers, please email me at chjames@valdosta.edu
if you would like to be on the ballot! It won't take up a lot of time
at all, and you will be able to plan out what movies we watch at movie
nights, what debates we will have, and what topics we discuss. It will also
look great on your resume!
Don't forget, the Dogma
movie night and the election of club officers are on Monday, 9/30/02 at 8pm in the UC Theatre. We also have
movie nights reserved in the UC Theatre for these dates: 10/28/02, 2/11/03, 3/18/03.
We have decided to start
out a chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, and the application
process has been started with Lee Rice who is the head of all the chapters
and a professor at Marquette
University
in Wisconsin.
Remember, if you have had at least two Phil classes with an A and a B, and
you are in the top 35% of your class, you qualify to get a silver key! The
membership fee is $25, which pays for the key. As for me, I will also pay a
$100 chapter start-up fee. I think we will have a great time doing an
induction ceremony too!
As to our ideas for future
events, I am still waiting for a second email message from Martha Leake in Physics and Astronomy, as well as from Shirley
Hardin in African American Studies. I do think they both reacted positively
to our ideas, which I think we can take as permission to say they are
co-sponsoring events with us. I am also waiting to hear back a first time
from Robin Vickery about ways to contact other student organizations, namely
College Republicans and Democrats and the Students in Physical Sciences.
Fortunately, one of the students in my Philosophy of Science class is with
the College Republicans, and another student in my Honors Logic class is
editing the Spectator campus newspaper, so we will get things done one way or
another!
There are more updates at
the new department website, including career information. Let me know what
you think about it, what else you would like to see in the links - it's a
site for you all as students at VSU, and we want it to be good for your needs
and to show that Philosophy is a great major!
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
There is going to be a
regional conference for undergraduates soon, it's March 7-8, 2003 in Jacksonville at the University
of North Florida!
Everyone who has a philosophy paper to write for a class should think about
submitting it to this conference, it will also look wonderful on your resume
when you go out on the job market! The submission deadline is December
2, they want three copies of your paper, and it should be between 8-12 double
spaced pages. It should be sent to: David Fenner,
Department of Philosophy, University
of North Florida,
Jacksonville, FL 32224. (All the philosophy faculty have copies of the flier for it
too.) Don't be shy about sending things out, just give it a try!
Have a great weekend,
Christine James
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
September 16, 2002
Hello Philosophy
Club! Hope the semester is chugging along nicely for everyone. A few
news items for you:
--- The elections for new
officers will take place at our Philosophical Film Night "Dogma",
on September 30, 2002
at 8pm in the UC Theatre.
We do still need people to be on the ballot, so please email me at
chjames@valdosta.edu if you are interested in running! It really isn't
much of a time commitment, but you get a powerful voice in what new
activities we do, and a good line for your resume/c.v.!
--- We have tutors who are
willing to help out anyone who might be struggling in the lower level
classes, like PHIL 2020 Logic, PHIL 2010 Fundamentals, and REL 2010 World
Religions! Contact Mike Holt, z_mikeh@yahoo.com
and Jessica Corbin, jmcorbin@valdosta.edu
and they will be happy to arrange a session!
--- There is a social
being planned for all students, staff and faculty at Mike Stoltzfus'
house on Friday, October 11, from 3-6pm, 701 Pineridge
Drive, near Azalea and Gornto. Everyone is welcome
to come and hang out! As an added bonus (and a possible time change, I will
let you know!), this may be the same day as a symposium on love in Ari Santas' History of Ancient
Philosophy class too!
--- Following up on
Physics/Space Time - Martha Leake emailed me and
said that it sounds like a great idea, she is
working on mentioning it to the other Physics/Ast
faculty. She mentioned that their department does a capstone course as
well as a Students in Physical Sciences group, and
we might work together with them on it. She and I will be in contact
more soon. Either way, we will do something on that interest soon.
--- Following up on Bamboozled
with African American Studies - Shirley Hardin emailed me back to say it
sounds like a great idea, and she will try to email me again soon to work it
out further. (She seems incredibly busy on campus, as the one person in a
vital program it's understandable!)
--- We have a new
department website to announce!
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
It includes links to
careers after majoring in Philosophy, the Spring classes, the current syllabi
we are using in this semester's classes, the Philosophy Club by-laws, the Phi
Sigma Tau honorary, some fun quotes about
Philosophy from Monty Python's John Cleese, and
other fun information and upcoming events! Check it out!
(Suggestions are welcome, let me know if you would
like to have something on this site that isn't there!)
--- I would really like to
do a chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau honorary here.
Check out the link to it, it will take you to a college honorary central
page, and from there you can find it under "P" for "Phi".
The requirements are really not bad at all: you have to have 2 PHIL classes
with an average grade above B (so one A and one B
makes it!) and be in the upper 35% of your graduation class. I bet there are
a lot of you out there who meet those requirements - want to get a silver
key? huh? it'll be fun!
Take care everyone, email
me or call me with any questions or ideas you have!
Christine James
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
http://teach.valdosta.edu/phi/
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
September 5, 2002
Just a note to let
everyone know what is on tap for Philosophy Club - Plato's Cave! First,
thank you to everyone who signed up with us at the Happening, glad to meet
you all! Remember, Kevin Smith's "Dogma" will be a free movie
night event on Monday,
September 30, 2002 at 8pm
in the UC Theatre! A display ad for Dogma will be in the Spectator on
September 19 also.
ELECTION TIME: Since it is
the beginning of a new year, we should probably hold our officer elections at
the movie night. We have more than one officer slot to fill, so please
contact me to be on the ballot! The 2-page club by-laws describe the
positions and are outside my office door, Ashley 110. I will also email
you the by-laws if you like.
FOLLOW UP ON YOUR IDEAS
-SPACE/TIME TALK: Jessica C had an idea for a talk about Space-Time
Theory, possibly combined with Physics/Astronomy/GeoSci.
I emailed Professor Martha Leake about it two days
ago, and she will hopefully reply to me soon. Even if their department
doesn't want to do it, I have some cool video on the topic that we could get
together to see and talk about - a Nova episode on wormholes, and an ABC News
special on superstring theory.
FOLLOW UP ON YOUR IDEAS -
POLITICAL DEBATE WITH REPS&DEMS: I have also emailed the director
of student activities, Robin Vickery, to see if she would supply us with the
contact info for other campus clubs so we could organize a political debate
with the College Republicans and Democrats. Hopefully she will organize
a way for groups to get in touch and organize co-sponsored events soon.
FOLLOW UP ON YOUR IDEAS - SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTION: Mike H suggested that we have Jim Hill give his paper on social
constructionism at an event soon; I suggested that
since Jim Hill is teaching five classes this semester we might want to wait
until spring semester; but by all means let's ask him to do it when you all
see fit!
FOLLOW UP ON YOUR IDEAS -
SPIKE LEE'S "BAMBOOZLED" WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: I have also
emailed Professor Shirley Hardin in African-American Studies about doing an
event together to show this film, hopefully she will reply soon too!
FUTURE MOVIE NIGHTS: Other
Philosophy Club Movie Nights are already scheduled in the UC Theatre for
Tuesday October 28 at 8-10pm,
Tuesday February 11 2003
at 8-10pm, and Tuesday March 18 2003 at 8-10pm. Let us know what ideas you have
for movies!
MORE BULLETIN BOARD INFO:
The Philosophy-related jobs section of the bulletin board outside my office
has more information about Cycorp, a software
company in Austin,
Texas that
routinely hires Philosophy majors to work as "ontological engineers."
We also have info about writing, editing, judicial/probation/paralegal,
philosophical counselling (an alternative to
psychology), and 2-year ethics consultant programs!
Be sure to email with any
other ideas that we should follow up on, and let me know what I can do for
you all. Using "Reply All" should let you reply to everyone
on our list, let me know if it doesn't work.
And remember, let me know if you are interested in a
club office and being on ballot for the voting at the Philosophy Club Movie
Night on 9/30!!!
Take care!
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5011
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
August 21, 2002
Hello everyone,
I am Christine James, the
new faculty member in the Philosophy Department at VSU, and I wanted to send
out a message saying Hello to all the Philosophy/Religious Studies
majors. It's been wonderful meeting many of you in the classes I am
teaching this semester, I hope to meet you all soon! Some of you might
be interested in taking part in Plato's Cave/Philosophy Club; Michael Holt is
the current President, I'm the Faculty Advisor, and we are getting ready for some
exciting events!
Thursday, August 29, 1-4pm, Palms Quad and U.U., The
Happening
We will have a table, and a variety of lighthearted, philosophy-related
items, as well as candy!
Monday, September 30, 8pm,
University Center Theatre, Philosophical Movie Night co-sponsored
with the Interfaith Alliance, "Dogma" (The Kevin Smith-View
Askew tongue-in-cheek look at
faith, god, the problem of evil, and the logico-metaphysical
relationship between god's
omnipotence and the existence of all beings. It's funny as well as
meaningful!)
Other movie nights will come in November, February and March.
If you have other ideas
and suggestions, please do share them with us! We also need officers!
For your information and to elicit comments, I attached the Plato's Cave
By-laws to this message (a big thanks to Brad Matthews for them!) FYI,
the part about dues is traditionally not enforced.
Also, feel free to come by
my office door (Santas' old office, 110 Ashley)
where I posted a variety of opportunities for you:
-a list of around twenty philosophy publications that publish papers by
undergraduates
-information on upcoming undergraduate conferences where you could present
papers
-a page on the national philosophy undergraduate honorary society, Phi Sigma Tau
-a list of upcoming professional conferences
-fliers about philosophy-related job opportunities and companies that
actively recruit
philosophy majors.
Feel free to email me
anytime; you can also email everyone who received this message at once by
using a "reply-all" command!
Dr. Christine A.
James
229-259-7609
Department of
Philosophy
F: 229-259-5949
1500 N. Patterson St.
chjames@valdosta.edu
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
31698-0050
|
