This is a page for all those who are in or have graduated from a program in the philosophy department (Philosophy, Humanities, Religious Studies, and Cognitive Science), and anyone else interested in what's happening in the department.
Information
- Location:
- Orlando, FL, 32816-1352
- Phone:
- 407-823-2273
Events
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- Journey to the Scrolls
Roth JCC
Saturday, December 5 at 7:30pm
www.orlandojcc.org
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
Long ago, pieces of leather, inscribed by learned sages, were rolled into scrolls, to be read and studied only by a select few. For reasons still unknown to us, they were hidden in mountainous desert caves. Then, on a fateful day in 1947, when an Arab lad was searching for his lost goat, he stumbled upon what was to be...come the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century - ancient parchments, depicting the life and hopes of an unknown Judean sect.
Follow the adventure saga of Dr. Ken Hanson, as he recounts his odyssey from Chicago, as a wide-eyed undergraduate, to Jerusalem, as an inspired scholar, seeking out the mysteries of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls. Changing costume on stage, he morphs into a host of characters, to bring the Scrolls to life. Experience the continuing journey of discovery!
Purchase your tickets at www.orlandojcc.org
$12 Students, Seniors, and JCC Members
$15 General Admission
$25 Patron Seating
religiondispatches.org
Eric Reitan, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His new book, Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers was released by Wiley-Blackwell in November.
www.newsweek.com
On a spring day last year, three months after the death of my younger son, Max, I opened my front door and saw a butterfly resting on the steps—an Eastern tiger swallowtail, I later determined, a species native to the Northeast but not one I remembered seeing before in the middle of Brooklyn. ...
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The number of academic misconduct violations at UCF rose 14 percent this year, according to the Office of Student Conduct.
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
Opportunity: The DART Center (Direct Action & Research Training) will be on the UCF campus on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:30 PM in Ferrell Commons Room 185 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social c...hange.
Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Melissa Pluss at melissa@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone # and email address. http://www.thedartcenter.org/
www.thedartcenter.org
Apply Now! We are currently accepting applications for the 2010 DART Organizers Institute. Our application deadline is midnight, December 15th, 2009, but we encourage candidates to get their completed applications and resumes in as soon as possible.
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UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/la
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One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole. Not together, but on competing expeditions to become the first person and team to the Pole. ...
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mikes-
www.michaelmoore.com
I'd like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I'm sure, can be applied to your own spiritual/ethical values).
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
The Department of Philosophy and Center for Humanities and Digital Research invite you to attend:
“Paper is Complete—Author TBD: The Death of the Author in Contemporary Biomedical Research”
Dr. Rebecca Kukla,
Professor of Philosophy and Obstetrics & Gynecology,
University of South Florida
Friday, October 9th 3:30-5:00 p.m....
PSY 226
Dr. Kukla, Professor of Philosophy and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is also a core faculty member in USF’s graduate program in Medical Humanities and Bio-ethics. Prior to joining the USF faculty, she taught at Carlton University, held a Greenwall Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University, and received her Sommelier Certification at Algonquin college.
She is author of Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers’ Bodies (Rowman and Littlefield 2005), the editor of Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant’s Critical Philosophy (Cambridge 2006) and, with Mark Lance, the co-author of ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’: The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons (Harvard University Press 2008). She is co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, a scholarly society with members in 30 countries.
She holds a $100,000 research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled “Autonomy and the Negotiation of Information in Reproductive Health Care.” Her research interests include philosophical and cultural studies of medicine, epistemology, eighteenth century philosophy, and feminist philosophy.
For further information on this presentation, please call 407-823-2273 or contact Dr. Shelley Park at spark@mail.ucf.edu.
For further information on the Philosophy Department’s Colloquium series, contact Dr. Nancy Stanlick at stanlick@mail.ucf.edu
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
From: Mike Buendia (Mike Smith), Philosophy Department alum:
I am an alumnus of the UCF philosophy department, graduated spring 2008, and I am volunteering through AmeriCorps. After graduating, I was not interested in going to grad school right away, so I looked at my options and decided to join AmeriCorps. If you aren’...t familiar with AmeriCorps, it is somewhat of a federal umbrella organization which offers contracts to non-profit organizations around the nation to have full-time volunteers for a year of service. Through AmeriCorps, I now work for a refugee resettlement agency in Erie, PA called International institute of Erie (http://www.interinsterie.org). IIE provides houses for incoming former refugees (around 40 new people arrive each month), offers ESL (English as a second language) classes for adults and tutoring for children, and we have case workers to assist in the acquisition of jobs, social services, and general acclimation to American life. Many of the refugees who are sent here by the UN have nothing but the clothes on their back (pardon the cliché but this is literally the case), so IIE exists to help them begin their new life, and get them the things and services they need. My responsibilities are to recruit volunteers for the Institute, raise awareness of the refugee resettlement process in the community, and create and facilitate projects for the refugees to get involved in. An example of the latter would be a computer class for adults that will cover basic computer skills so they are able to apply for jobs online, create a resume, look up any information they may need, etc. So, life after UCF has been meaningful for me so far.
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums
For those of you who haven't seen my page yet called "What Can I Do With A Humanities Degree?" - check it out http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/humanit
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology will meet in Atlanta in 2010. The deadline for all submissions is November 16, 2009
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums The UCF Ethics Bowl is open to all undergraduates at UCF. Teams are forming, so please see the UCF Core Commitments blog at http://ucfcorecommitments.wordpress.com for further information.
It's like the Olympics for your head
Time:8:30AM Sunday, November 8th
Location:UCF Teaching Academy Building
UCF Department of Philosophy Alums The UCF Ethics Bowl Competition takes place on November 8 (Sunday) on campus in the TA Building. Watch Good Morning UCF e-mail for an announcement for teams to form and register. See the link to the UCF Core Commitments blog for cases and other info.
ucfcorecommitments.wordpress.com
The University of Central Florida's Core Commitments Projects
www.livescience.com
Morality is no longer the exclusive realm of human philosophers. Now what?
