Please join us on campus for our next discussion group meeting Friday, April 3rd at 2:30pm in room E&T A420. We’ll be discussing an excerpted version of Henri Bergson’s An Introduction to Metaphysics. I’m confident that the piece will strike a chord with many of you (regulars), and look forward to another lively discussion. For [...]

Greetings philosophers, 
William L. Rowe, a former theist, published ‘The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism’ in 1979. There he presented an atheological argument from evil that has proved influential – his example of the badly burned fawn suffering for days before finally dying (what good reason does God have to allow that?) struck [...]

“Human Immortality” by William James was published in 1896. In this lecture James offers two arguments in support of human immortality. The excerpt from this work selected for the next discussion group meeting contains the first of these two arguments.
Some questions to consider:
a) What does James mean by ‘functional dependence’? Which types of functional dependence [...]

Greetings fellow philosophers,
In 1963, Gettier shocked analytic epistemology with just 2 pages of philosophy. I think it will be good to get this brilliant short piece under our belt and to start to feel some of the problems in epistemology that it raised. 
So as you read the paper, ponder the following questions; we’ll be sure [...]

Hello, everybody! Hope your quarter is off to a good start.
The Philosophy Club is hoping to start a discussion group to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to read and discuss short, influential papers in philosophy.

As a group member, you would be able to participate in the process of selecting papers for discussion. [...]