Interview on Friedrich Nietzsche
Dr. Dale Wilkerson recently gave an interview on Friedrich Nietzsche with the website "HowStuffWorks."
News
A special issue on the theme of Digital Worlds
Dr. Ian Werkheiser and Dr. Michael Butler are editing a special issue of Techné on Digital Worlds. Please see the CFP below!
UTRGV Edinburg Philosophy Club has returned!
The UTRGV Edinburg Philosophy Club has returned! For more information, please contact Scarlett (Rosie) Quintana at scarlett.quintana01@utrgv.edu.
Zoom meeting ID: 350 816 7004
Phil and Sophie's Coffee House
[Update: Phil and Sophie's Coffee House is on break for the summer!]
No reading or preparation is required. It's just informal philosophical discussion! Meetings for this semester take place every Thursday. If you would like to suggest a topic, you are encouraged to email Dr. Michael Butler at michael.butler@utrgv.edu
Past topics have included: Love, Freedom, Evil, Consciousness, Democracy, and Science
Digital Worlds Workshop
Dr. Ian Werkheiser and Dr. Michael Butler co-organized a virtual workshop in April titled "Digital Worlds" through The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
More information can be found at https://digitalworldsworkshop.wordpress.com/
A new Faculty Senate President for the 2020-2021 year!
Dr. Cynthia Paccacerqua has been elected Faculty Senate President for 2020-2021. Congratulations, Dr. Paccacerqua!
Dr. Ian Werkheiser's podcast "Thought About Food!" is back for season two! Check it out!
Dr. Werkheiser writes, "Most episodes will be conversations with guests who are experts on some aspect of the ways food affects our lives, our cultures, and our societies.
The apple podcast link is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thought-about-food-podcast/id1530669077 , the podcast's own site is https://thoughtaboutfood.podbean.com/ to get the embedded player, and it'll slowly appear over the next few days in every other podcast aggregator (like Google, Amazon Alexa, Stitcher, etc.)."
How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public
Dr. Cory Wimberly's book is featured in the APA Blog, 'New Books in Philosophy' series. Dr. Wimberly writes, "It's a short look at some of the themes and ideas in it. And, as it's about propaganda, media, corporate power, etc., it's salacious enough to tickle your 'righteous anger' (as Aristotle called it). The book is How Propaganda Became Public Relations: Foucault and the Corporate Government of the Public."
Dr. Mariana Alessandri and Dr. Alex Stehn winning the Inter-American Philosophy Award
Congratulations to Drs. Mariana Alessandri and Alex Stehn for winning the Inter-American Philosophy Award at this year's meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, which met in San Miguel de Allende! Their co-written paper was titled "La Mexicana en la Chicana: The Mexican Sources of Anzaldúa's Inter-American Philosophy."
"The Committee on Inter-American Relations will present the Inter-American Philosophy Award to the best submitted paper concerning Latin American, Latino/a, or indigenous philosophies across the Americas that is presented at the Annual Meeting. The Award includes a cash prize, and the winning paper will be published in The Inter-American Journal of Philosophy."