Union College Philosophy Department

All are cordially invited to the First Speaker for the Annual Philosophy Speakers Series Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known Jennifer Lackey... Northwestern University Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, the founder and Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, President Elect of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Studies and Episteme. Most of her research is in the area of social epistemology, with a focus on issues at the intersection of epistemology and the United States criminal legal system. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution and she has received grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:30 PM via Zoom (please contact [email protected] for more information)

Ephemeris, An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy Announcing the publication of the 2020 edition of Ephemeris, The Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy edited and published by the students and faculty of Union College. Ephemeris has national and international exposure accepting quality work in the English language from talented undergraduates everywhere. Henceforward and for the foreseeable future Ephemeris will available only online, there will be no print edition. Please ...visit the new website at Ephemeris, An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy We thank our authors for their contributions; the current table of contents includes: Defining Philosophy and Philosophers in the 'Theaetetus' Harper Lyon (Union College) Trust, Friendship and Evidence Anna Cheng (University of Richmond) The First Monstrosity: Gender Bias in Aristotle's Reproductive Framework Adelaide Martinez (Texas A&M University Correspondence Theory as a Genuine Theory of Truth Micah Philips-Gary (College of Wooster) We are now at work on the 2020 edition with a submission date of January 6th. We encourage students to submit their work Submission guidelines can be reviewed at https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/submit.cgi Prof. Andrea Pedefera, Faculty Advisor Ephemeris c/o Department of Philosophy Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 https://digitalworks.union.edu/Ephemeris [email protected]

On behalf of the PHL Dept and Prof Pedeferri, we want to encourage you to consider enrolling in Ephemeris (PHL 088, 3 term practicum): Ephemeris is a world-renowned undergraduate journal of philosophy and one of the oldest undergraduate philosophy journals in the world. It is dedicated to harvesting exceptional undergraduate writing. Since its founding in 2001, Ephemeris has published contributions from students from across the nation and the world; a recent issue included w...ork from students in Holland, the UK and Canada. Our Journal is now run by Union students, who evaluate the contributions submitted (usually around 70 every year), select the best papers for publication, engage in the editing process, design and prepare the layout for the Journal, and send it out for printing. This practicum allows current students to be involved in the editing and reviewing process for the selection of papers that will be published in the next issue of Ephemeris. Though this is a challenging time with lots of unknowns, the long history and uniqueness of the journal and its importance for Union and the department is unparalleled and as such, the course will go on as usual but will be online with a very flexible schedule. This year we worked with the library to move the journal online and they provided access to their professional managing software that manages all the work-flow of the journal. This adds a level of real-word working skills for students who enroll. For any inquiries, please send an email to [email protected]

Krisanna Scheiter David Nagle James Segee-Wright Scott Williams Harper Lyon

All are cordially invited to the Seventh Speaker for the Annual Philosophy Speakers Series The Troubles and Temptations of Righteous Incivility Amy Olberding... Oklahoma University Amy Olberding is Presidential Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Her research is in early Chinese ethics and in everyday moral challenges. Her work includes books and articles on mortality in ancient Chinese traditions, moral exemplars and moral theory in Confucianism, and her most recent book is The Wrong of Rudeness, an effort to use Confucian ideas about morals and manners in daily to address contemporary challenges. Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30 PM in Everest Lounge

All are cordially invited to the Fifth Speaker for the Annual Philosophy Speakers Series What Can Philosophy Do? Amie L. Thomasson... Dartmouth College Amie L. Thomasson is the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College. She specializes in metaphysics, metametaphysics, philosophy of art and literature, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology. Her current work focuses on questions about what metaphysics, and philosophy more generally, can legitimately do, and how we can do it. She is the author of numerous articles, and three books: Fiction and Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Ordinary Objects (Oxford University Press, 2007), and Ontology Made Easy (Oxford University Press, 2015). The last of these was awarded the Sanders Book Prize by the American Philosophical Association. Her fourth book, Norms and Necessity, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2017, she has held positions at the University of Miami, the University of Hong Kong, and Texas Tech University. She was recently named one of the "50 most influential living philosophers. Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:30 PM in Everest Lounge

All are cordially invited to a Union College Philosophy Department Talk "Of Measures and Men, or: Why Protagoras Matters to Aristotle" Ian McCready-Flora University of Virginia... Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30 PM in Everest Lounge Prof. Ian McCready-Flora is a specialist in ancient Greek Philosophy. He is currently working on a book-length project on Aristotle’s conception of rationality, which examines what is distinctive about human thinking that distinguishes it from the sorts of thinking other animals engage in.

All are cordially invited to the Third Speaker for the Annual Philosophy Speakers Series On the Ethics of Believing David Hunter Ryerson University... David Hunter received a BA in philosophy from McGill University and a PhD in philosophy from MIT. After teaching in Montreal and Buffalo, he joined the Department of Philosophy at Ryerson University in 2006. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind with interests in the philosophy of action and the history of analytic philosophy. He is currently completing a monograph on the nature of believing. Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:30 PM in Everest Lounge