Welcome!
A Message from the Chair, Dr. Kelly Jolley:
Welcome to the Auburn Philosophy Web page. Here you will find information about our large and very busy Department—about the Auburn Philosophical Society, about the Philosophy Club (and Phi Sigma Tau), about our classes, and about our faculty and students. We count our majors and minors as part of the Department and we hope for and expect them to participate in the philosophical life of the Department. Our 6th floor halls regularly are inhabited by faculty and students, working and talking (in fact, working by talking). The Lyceum (Haley 6088) is also often full of students, gathered for Club meetings, or gathered for informal discussion, or gathered for lunch or coffee.
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About once every two weeks the Philosophical Society meets to hear a paper, often from distinguished philosophers from other universities. Students are encouraged to attend; in fact, we preface most meetings by an hour-long conversation between the speaker and the members of the Club. After the paper and discussion, the speaker, faculty and students routinely go to dinner.
Our classes are uniformly challenging and are uniformly worth the challenge. Students who work hard at the readings, work hard during class, and work hard on papers and preparing for exams will find that they have improved during the term: that they are better readers, better listeners and better writers. Philosophy is a challenge to the whole person; no one improves at philosophy without also improving in a host of ways.
If you have any questions about the Department, about the major or minor, about the Club or about the Society, stop by the office (Haley 6082) and talk to me. I’ll be happy to answer your questions.
In March, the Department will hold its first annual philosophy conference. The topic is beauty. Philosophers from all over the country, indeed all over the world, will gather to discuss the topic. I encourage you to follow the links to the conference information.
Highlights
- A faculty of well-qualified, award-winning instructors committed to a high standard of teaching and involvement within the philosophical community.
- One of the most active departments on campus. Faculty and invited speakers present papers at Auburn Philosophical Society meetings on a regular basis.
- The Philosophy Club is one of the most active student organizations on
campus, affiliated with the honor society Phi Sigma Tau. Students meet to discuss philosophical topics and AUPS papers informally with the speakers, and to watch films and discuss them. You can find more information about the club's activities for 2009-10 here. - An annual philosophy conference with invited speakers from all over the world. The topics varies from "Beauty" through "Ontology of Ordinary Objects" to "Wittgenstein's Tractatus Revisited." You can find more information about our 2010 conference here.
- To encourage a high standard of writing, the department awards the Christopher Young Essay Prize in Philosophy each spring. The competition is open to any currently enrolled student.
- Small class sizes (around 15 students) in upper division courses.
- A special study room, the Lyceum, with computers, text books, and journals where students meet and study.
- A strong university tradition and student-friendly campus.
- The Kant Song: Immanuel Kant's transcendental deduction set to music!
AU Philosophy Department in the News!
The Thinker: New York Times article on Auburn's own Dr. Kelly Jolley.
Philsophy Club Ponders Its Own Existence: Auburn Plainsman recent article on the AU Philosophy Club.
Philosophy Club Discusses Free Will with Community: A recent article on the AU philosophy club in the AU CLA Tiger-tales.
Events Calendar
02/11/10 Nineteenth-Century Studies Group
7:30 PM at Off Campus
Jana Gutierrez (Modern Lang & Lit.)
'Ravishing Forms: Seduction and Frigidity in 19th century Spanish American Poetry'
Contact rk@auburn.edu for more information.
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02/16/10 Provost to Discuss Scholarship of Public Engagement with AU Faculty
3:00 PM at 2225 Student Center
The Community and Civic Engagement Initiative in the College of Liberal Arts invites faculty to a dialogue on the scholarship of public engagement with Auburn University Provost Mary Ellen Mazey on Tuesday, February 16 at 3:00 p.m. in room 2225 of the Auburn University Student Center.
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02/18/10 Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination
3:00 PM at 2225 Student Center
Africana Studies Program invites you to “Constructing Auburn Avenue as a Heritage Tourist Destination,” a lecture by Professor Joshua Inwood.
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02/26/10 - 02/27/10 Auburn Philosophy Conference
8:00 AM at Jule Collins Smith Museum
Topic of the 2010 Conference:
Ontology of Ordinary Objects
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02/26/10 Promotion and Tenure Dossier Preparation
2:00 PM at Tichenor 215
All CLA faculty members are invited to attend the new "Promotion and Tenure Dossier Preparation"workshop.
Contact snoddts@auburn.edu for more information.
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03/11/10 Should’ve by Roald Hoffmann
7:30 PM at Telfair Peet Theatre
AU THEATRE TO PRESENT A STAGED READING OF SHOULD’VE BY NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING CHEMIST, ROALD HOFFMANN, Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm in Telfair Peet Theatre. Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, has long been interested in the intersections of art and science. An accomplished poet and playwright, he has published four collections of poetry, a book of translations of his poems into Spanish, and a number of plays: most notably Oxygen, coauthored with Stanford University chemist Carl Djerassi.
Contact - belllin@auburn.edu for more information.
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04/01/10 CLA Faculty Awards Ceremony
5:00 PM at Jule Collins Smith Museum
Dear CLA members, please join us to celebrate and honor this year's faculty at the annual College of Liberal Arts Faculty Awards Ceremony and Spring Reception.
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Last updated February 24, 2009