General News
Rasmussen Awarded Third NSF Grant on DIY Science
Dr. Lisa Rasmussen recently was awarded her third National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, to fund a project on “Assessing Ethical Challenges in Conducting Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Science During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” For this project, the research team will investigate ethical issues in unregulated research performed outside of traditional laboratory settings, with the aim of identifying key […]
Gordon Hull Receives NSF Grant
Dr. Gordon Hull is co-PI on a recently awarded NSF grant related to public policy and technology. Much of the public policy U.S. citizens encounter every day regarding their health, welfare, education, jobs, and security are state and local level policies, with little coordination of or sharing of information on their societal impacts. Dr. Hull […]
Queen City Philosophy Conference
The philosophy department hosted the Queen City Philosophy conference on August 26, 2019. It featured papers from undergraduate, graduate, and post-bac students on topics ranging from ethics, political philosophy, and phenomenology to philosophy of religion, epistemology, and language/signification. Ethan Butt, University of Virginia, won the Best Paper Prize for his paper on “Is Agency Possible […]
Philosophy of the Americas: September 20
The Southeast Roundtable on Philosophy of the Americas (SERPA) meets annually to provide an informal, helpful atmosphere for presenting work-in-progress in the areas of American/the Americas and pragmatist philosophy. We welcome submissions for next year’s workshop, which will be on September 20, 2019. https://philosophy.charlotte.edu/about-us/southeast-roundtable-philosophy-americ…
Philosophy Department Newsletter, Winter 2018
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Study Abroad in Greece: Feb. 1 Deadline
The department is offering a new study abroad opportunity, PHIL 3390/5050: What is the Life Worth Living? Ancient Ethics in Athens, which goes to Greece for eight days in the summer semester (May 12-21, 2019). The bulk of the course takes place in Athens, with day trips to the mountains of Delphi and the Greek […]
Mariana Ortega on Aesthetic Memory: January 24
Mariana Ortega, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Penn State, will give a talk on January 24 from 2:30-4:00pm at the UNC Charlotte Atkins Library (Halton Reading Room). In her talk—titled “Memento Vivere: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory, and the Border”—she will discuss the production of spaces of mourning in connection to memory practices—not for the dead […]
Kathryn Sophia Belle on Jones & Beauvoir: November 26
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Penn State, is giving a talk on November 26 from 1:00-2:15pm in the Philosophy seminar room (Cedar, 2nd floor). In her talk—titled “1949: Claudia Jones and Simone de Beauvoir 70 Years Later”—she will imagine a debate between Claudia Jones (“An End to the Neglect of the Problems […]
Graduate Recruitment of Underrepresented Philosophers (GROUP): November 7
Graduate Recruitment of Underrepresented Philosophers (GROUP) is a one-day, expense-paid workshop to be held at UNC Charlotte on November 7, 2018 for up to ten promising prospective M.A. students in philosophy from traditionally underrepresented groups. GROUP is designed to increase the diversity of the academic pipeline in the discipline by recruiting a diverse group of […]
The Philosophy of “The Good Place”
Dr. Robin James recently published “The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place” in the Los Angeles Review of Books. She argues that the NBC sitcom The Good Place, although it appears to stay at the level of Ethics 101, actually “shows us a fairly well-developed political philosophy . . . […]