Kent State Philosophy

10/17/2023

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03/16/2023

Please join us this Saturday, March 18th, for the annual KSU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4th. We will be meeting in person, venue and program at link below. The event is free and open to all!

30th Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4thSaturday, March 18th, 2023 Keynote Speaker:Dr. John Nolt Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleProf. Andreea Smaranda Aldea, Program CoordinatorLogistics (dir...

02/21/2023

Dr. Jacob Berger of Lycoming College will be giving a talk at 1pm on Friday, February 24th, to be held in Bowman Hall Room 315.

The title of his talk is “Quality-Space Functionalism about Color.” The abstract appears below, and the paper is attached. Light refreshments will be served after the talk.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required (so we can provide refreshments). Please register using this Google form: https://forms.gle/pEUaNoejMcXDVNyg7

I motivate and defend a previously underdeveloped functionalist account of the metaphysics of color, a view that I call ‘quality-space functionalism’ about color. Although other theorists have proposed varieties of color functionalism, this view differs from such accounts insofar as it identifies and individuates colors by their relative locations within a particular kind of ‘quality space’ that reflects creatures’ capacities to discriminate visually among stimuli. My arguments for this view of color are abductive: I propose that quality-space functionalism best captures our commonsense conception of color, fits with many experimental findings, coheres with the phenomenology of color experience, and avoids many issues for standard theories of color, such as color physicalism and color relationalism.

Thanks to Dr. David Pereplyotchik for arranging Dr. Berger's visit.

03/16/2022

Join us this Saturday, March 19th, at 10AM EST for this year’s Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. The event will be held remotely on Teams. Details on how to join at the link below.

29th Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th Conference Date: Saturday, March 19th, 2022 Keynote Speaker: Laura Hengehold, Ph.D Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University "Locating Gendered Affects in the Political Imaginary": T...

12/10/2021

09/07/2021

https://www.newsweek.com/children-should-taught-philosophy-school-opinion-1624698

Philosophy cultivates the ability to think critically for ourselves, rather than uncritically or to appease teachers or parents.

03/17/2021

Please join us for this year's Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4th, which will take place remotely on Saturday, March 20th. This year’s keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Sherri Irvin, Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Oklahoma University.

For program and access link information, see link below.

28th Annual Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In Remembrance of May 4th Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Saturday, March 20, 2021 Keynote Speaker: Sherri Irvin Presidential Research Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies, Senior Associate Dean of Oklahoma U Graduate....

01/14/2021

https://dailynous.com/2021/01/14/high-production-quality-low-cost-future-philosophy-education/

Here are three trends in higher education: To save money, more students are starting their post-high-school education at a community college, taking courses there for a while and then transferring with those credits to a more prestigious school from which they’ll end up getting their degree. For c...

11/18/2020

http://peasoup.us/2020/11/philosophers-argument-check-in-this-episode-socrates-vs-giuliani/

With this post we start a new series here at PEA Soup: Philosophers’ Argument Check. The idea is to assess arguments before the public using the tools of philosophy but in a way that is desig…

10/27/2020

https://www.kent.edu/philosophy/coffee-your-professor

Coffee with Your Professor Department of Philosophy | Click the link below to open a Google Form and send a request to a faculty member to have coffee. Have coffee with your professor! This link will open a new window with a Google Form, the use of which will require you to log in with your Kent Sta...

10/27/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Smaranda Aldea, editor of a special issue of "Husserl Studies"!

10/23/2020

https://medium.com/humanities-unveiled/the-gender-gap-in-philosophy-a6f6c21c37b8

In this excerpt, Melissa M. Shew and Kimberly K. Garchar discuss the origins of the gender gap in philosophy.