The Philosophy Membership at Stetson College is a month-to-month assembly of the minds involving college, philosophy majors and minors, and college students curious about pursuing superior research in philosophy. A scholar convener units the agenda and distributes texts for dialogue. There are often six conferences a 12 months — three per semester — with a brand new president elected yearly by the philosophy college; the president affords steerage to conveners of their collection of dialogue matters.
The School Advisor fingers off the accountability to the President of the Membership the duty of the organizing the conferences. Conferences enable college students and professors to proceed their philosophical dialogue exterior of sophistication in a congenial ambiance. The Stetson College Philosophy Membership is formally acknowledged by the Scholar Authorities Affiliation.
After I arrived at Stetson in 2000, we didn’t have a Philosophy Membership. I urged that we type one and my colleague and Chair on the time, Rob Brady, agreed. We mentioned assembly locations and eventually determined to satisfy at my dwelling on the primary Thursday of every month at 4PM. We additionally determined to start every assembly with a dialogue of a subject for the following assembly. We then appoint a volunteer convener whose accountability could be to set the agenda, distribute texts, and many others. for the following assembly. Paul Vogel agreed to be our first convener and we mentioned Neil Poston’s e book Amusing Ourselves to Demise.
The membership continues to today, with visitor audio system main membership members by way of quite a lot of matters. Within the Spring 2021 and Fall 2021 phrases, visitor audio system lined a broad vary of matters, from private id to philosophy as preparation for a profession as a therapist.
In Spring 2021, Scott Kimbrough (Jacksonville College) mentioned private id as an excuse, Josh Rayman (College of South Florida) mentioned connections between Nietzsche and Heraclitus, and Brook Sadler (College of South Florida) mentioned the idea of honesty in reference to social observe and morality.
In Fall 2021, Mary Bernard, a grasp’s scholar interning in medical psychological well being counseling mentioned how the idea of an examined life serves as a precious instrument for serving to others discover that means. Pers Rawlings (Florida State College) led philosophy membership college students by way of a dialogue of why consequentialists can’t be associates, and Åsa Burman (Stockholm College) mentioned social energy in modern social ontology.
In case you are curious about studying extra about Stetson’s Philosophy Membership, please contact the Philosophy Department Administrative Assistant, or Dr. Ronald Hall. Each are blissful to place you on the mailing checklist for upcoming Philosophy Membership conferences and bulletins.
Ron Corridor
Ronald L. Hall, professor, (PhD, Chapel Hill) is the writer of two books, Word and Spirit (Indiana, 1993) and The Human Embrace (Penn State, 1999). His normal areas of curiosity are existentialism and the philosophy of faith. His particular areas of curiosity embody Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard.
