News and Events
PHIL 0710 Senior Presentations
Friday, November 15
2:30-4:00 PM, LIB 201 Watson Lecture Hall
- Max Stein, “What Makes a Human Being Alive?: Body and Soul in Aristotle”
- Atticus Coates, “Plato on Eros: Love as a Guiding Force”
- Luke Hannan, “A Skeptic’s Truth: Humean Epistemology”
6:30-8:00 PM, Twilight 201
- Noel Song, “Lawyer Ethics: Lying and Deception”
- Nathaniel Corbett, “Moral Constraints on Executive Prerogative: Amending Locke with Rawls”
- John McShea, “Virtual Virtue: Ethics in a Parity VR”
6:30-8:00 PM, LIB 201 Watson Lecture Hall
- Olivia Rooney, “Where do Human Morals Come From?: An Evolutionary Origin to Our Moral Beliefs”
- Yang Liu, “Enactivism and Its Phenomenological and Buddhist Foundations”
- Sawyer Yasenchack, “A Close Look at Nothing: Buddhist Non-self for an Interconnected World”
Philosophy Club
The student-run Philosophy Club hosts events throughout the semester. If you would like to learn more about what we are planning or suggest an idea for an event, please contact us at philclub@middlebury.edu.
Statements of Solidarity
We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive department for students from all backgrounds, especially BIPOC students. See our Black Lives Matter statement.
Congratulations Professor Besser
Professor Lorraine Besser has been awarded funding from the New England Humanities Consortium (NEHC), which includes Middlebury, to support a Public Philosophy Writing Workshop. The collaborative workshop will bring together a group of philosophers from NEHC institutions who are interested in writing about critical philosophical ideas and insights for a public audience.