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Philosophy Club: Peggy Kamuf on Continental Versus Analytic Philosophy
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Tuesday, October 26, 8:00pm – MHP 102
In a lecture/discussion led by Peggy Kamuf, USC professor of Comparative Literature, we will be discussing the distinctions and similarities between analytic and continental philosophy. Recently, these two traditions in philosophy have seemed to diverge drastically from one another. We hope in our conversation to understand more of what gives rise to this distinction and, perhaps, to find a middle ground between the two disciplines. There will be snacks.
Philosophy Club Meeting with Professor Mark Irwin
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Wednesday, October 13, 7:30pm – MHP 102
The Philosophy Club has an event with Professor Mark Irwin on Philosophy, Poetry, and Literature. Professor Irwin has requested that people bring in their favorite philosophical quote. Also, it will be a potluck event so, people are encouraged to bring food/drinks.
Philosophy Club—Guest Speaker Professor Higginbotham
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Tuesday, October 5, 8:00pm – MHP 102
Professor Higginbotham is speaking at the Philosophy Club event tonight on "What I Know When I Know a Language.” You are welcome to join.
If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Ben Rolnik at benrolnik@gmail.com.
Philosophy: Duke call for papers
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To Whom It May Concern,
My name is Rui and I am editor-in-chief of Duke University's undergraduate journal of philosophy, Agnitio. We are excited to let you know that we are accepting submissions for our 2010 issue. We welcome exemplary undergraduate academic papers in philosophy of any length, and I have attached a flyer with the relevant information. Please forward this message to your undergraduate students who may be interested in this opportunity. We are accepting submissions from now until March 26.
Though our new website is still under construction, you may refer to http://www.duke.edu/web/agnitio/ to get a general sense of our journal and to read past issues. Please e-mail all submissions, as well as any questions/concerns, to dukeagnitio@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Rui Dong
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Rui Dong
Duke University | Class of 2011
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
P.O. Box 96783
Durham, NC 27708
rui.dong@duke.edu | 440/991-6789
PHIL STUDENTS: College Grads: Which Ones Earn the Most?
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Have you ever wondered if Stanford grads really do make the big bucks, or if a "party school" degree can still land you a high-paying job?
Online salary database PayScale.com put together a 2009 College Salary Report that highlights which college graduates make the highest and lowest salaries right out of college and how that changes 10 years post-graduation.
While it may be no surprise that social work came in as the least well-paid major overall in PayScale's report, you may not know that Dartmouth's grads fare better financially 10 years after college than Harvard's.
Whether you went to a small, liberal arts college or graduated from an Ivy League school, take a look at the list below to see if your alma mater made a top 10 earners list.
School Name / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
1. Dartmouth College: $58,200 / $129,000
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): $71,100 / $126,000
3. Harvard University: $60,000 / $126,000
4. Harvey Mudd College: $71,000 / $125,000
5. Stanford University: $67,500 / $124,000
6. Princeton University: $65,000 / $124,000
7. Colgate University: $51,900 / $122,000
8. University of Notre Dame: $55,300 / $121,000
9. Yale University: $56,000 / $120,000
10. University of Pennsylvania: $60,400 / $118,000
Maybe you didn't get to attend one of these top schools, but there's another factor that may contribute to a higher paycheck: your major.
According to Al Lee, PayScale's director of quantitative analysis, "Even more than where you go to school, the degree you get is a bigger influencer of your pay for the vast majority of Americans." Lee says that an English major from Harvard may end up making six figures, but that person is an exception among English majors.
Which degrees bring home the most bacon? "Ones involving numbers," says Lee. Seven of the 10 highest-earning undergraduate degrees in the report are in engineering, with economics, physics, and computer science filling out the rest.
Undergraduate Degree / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
1. Aerospace Engineering: $59,600 / $109,000
2. Chemical Engineering: $65,700 / $107,000
3. Computer Engineering: $61,700 / $105,000
4. Electrical Engineering: $60,200 / $102,000
5. Economics: $50,200 / $101,000
6. Physics: $51,100 / $98,800
7. Mechanical Engineering: $58,900 / $98,300
8. Computer Science: $56,400 / $97,400
9. Industrial Engineering: $57,100 / $95,000
10. Environmental Engineering: $53,400 / $94,500
What other interesting facts did PayScale discover?
Online salary database PayScale.com put together a 2009 College Salary Report that highlights which college graduates make the highest and lowest salaries right out of college and how that changes 10 years post-graduation.
While it may be no surprise that social work came in as the least well-paid major overall in PayScale's report, you may not know that Dartmouth's grads fare better financially 10 years after college than Harvard's.
Whether you went to a small, liberal arts college or graduated from an Ivy League school, take a look at the list below to see if your alma mater made a top 10 earners list.
School Name / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
1. Dartmouth College: $58,200 / $129,000
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): $71,100 / $126,000
3. Harvard University: $60,000 / $126,000
4. Harvey Mudd College: $71,000 / $125,000
5. Stanford University: $67,500 / $124,000
6. Princeton University: $65,000 / $124,000
7. Colgate University: $51,900 / $122,000
8. University of Notre Dame: $55,300 / $121,000
9. Yale University: $56,000 / $120,000
10. University of Pennsylvania: $60,400 / $118,000
Maybe you didn't get to attend one of these top schools, but there's another factor that may contribute to a higher paycheck: your major.
According to Al Lee, PayScale's director of quantitative analysis, "Even more than where you go to school, the degree you get is a bigger influencer of your pay for the vast majority of Americans." Lee says that an English major from Harvard may end up making six figures, but that person is an exception among English majors.
Which degrees bring home the most bacon? "Ones involving numbers," says Lee. Seven of the 10 highest-earning undergraduate degrees in the report are in engineering, with economics, physics, and computer science filling out the rest.
Undergraduate Degree / Starting Median Salary / Mid-Career Median Salary
1. Aerospace Engineering: $59,600 / $109,000
2. Chemical Engineering: $65,700 / $107,000
3. Computer Engineering: $61,700 / $105,000
4. Electrical Engineering: $60,200 / $102,000
5. Economics: $50,200 / $101,000
6. Physics: $51,100 / $98,800
7. Mechanical Engineering: $58,900 / $98,300
8. Computer Science: $56,400 / $97,400
9. Industrial Engineering: $57,100 / $95,000
10. Environmental Engineering: $53,400 / $94,500
What other interesting facts did PayScale discover?
- Philosophy majors earn more 10 years after college than business administration and nursing majors.
- Two of the 10 most popular jobs held by Harvard University grads are executive director of a nonprofit organization and high school teacher.
- Loma Linda University graduates have the highest median starting salaries at $71,400 per year. That's over $6,000 more per year than a Princeton grad.
- The top paid English majors are technical writers.
- The top paid political science majors are intelligence analysts.
Philosophy Club Presents...
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The Philosophy Club presents:
Father James Heft
on Science and Religion
on Science and Religion
TODAY!!
Tuesday March 2nd,
8 PM MHP 102
...8 PM MHP 102
Also, next week (Tuesday, March 9th):
Nelson Bickers, professor of Physics and Astronomy & Vice Provost for Undergraduate programs, on the "Multiverse"
8 PM MHP 102
Ben
PS
Email me (benrolnik@gmail.com) to join the Philosophy Club newsletter
Philosophy Club Presents....Lets Talk About Sex
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Let's talk about Sex....
Whether or not we recognize it, sex is an unavoidable part of our everyday lives
Join us at the Philosophy Club as we get the bottom of this vast and complex subject. Feel free to observe and to stretch your brain, or participate and bring your A-Game.
Tuesday (feb 2, 2010) 8 PM, MHP 102
See you there
_________________________________________
Thanks!!
Ben
PS
We've been using MHP 102 without scheduling it... Hasn't been any conflict so far -- Just wondering if there was a way to reserve it permanently?
Whether or not we recognize it, sex is an unavoidable part of our everyday lives
Join us at the Philosophy Club as we get the bottom of this vast and complex subject. Feel free to observe and to stretch your brain, or participate and bring your A-Game.
Tuesday (feb 2, 2010) 8 PM, MHP 102
See you there
_________________________________________
Thanks!!
Ben
PS
We've been using MHP 102 without scheduling it... Hasn't been any conflict so far -- Just wondering if there was a way to reserve it permanently?
New Classics Courses!!
** NEW CLASS **
CLAS 328: Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World
Prof. A. M. Yasin
T/Th 2-3:20, THH 121
Temples, precincts, tombs and votive offerings present archaeological remnants of an ancient world which sought to construct channels to the divine. This course examines ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries and material culture as evidence for lived religious practice in the Greco-Roman world from the sixth century BCE to the third century CE. Studying a wide range of material, from buildings and artifacts to images and inscriptions, this course explores a series of major themes in the archaeology of Greco-Roman sacred space including housing and representing gods, sacrifice and divine communication, community identity and ritual performance, urban and rural topographies, and memory and religious change.
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CLAS 339: ANCIENT SCIENCE
Instructor: Professor James Collins
MW 3:30-4:50PM VKC108
Natural science in ancient Greece and Rome is difficult for us to distinguish from a variety of other intellectual pursuits and practices. It may at times resemble and have a share in the activities of philosophy, theology, technology, and magic. It may be the product of a solitary and indifferent scholar, an itinerant, competitive, and poetic sage, or a community spread out through time and space of thinkers and experimenters working in concert with shared techniques and objectives. Certain practices may variously rely on or reject the use of hypotheses, measurement, tradition, and metaphor. All of these efforts aim, however, at understanding or modeling natural, regular phenomena through investigation and the use of reason. This course examines the aims and underlying assumptions, origins, and transmission of these various activities while simultaneously asking questions about what constitutes good scientific thought and practice in our own world.
There are no official prerequisites for the course, but a familiarity with the broad outline of Greek and Roman history, as well as with modern scientific disciplines will prove helpful. The course is designed to be useful for Classics and Philosophy majors and minors, as well as students interested in science, history, and ethics more generally.
CLAS 328: Archaeology of Religion in the Greco-Roman World
Prof. A. M. Yasin
T/Th 2-3:20, THH 121
Temples, precincts, tombs and votive offerings present archaeological remnants of an ancient world which sought to construct channels to the divine. This course examines ancient Mediterranean sanctuaries and material culture as evidence for lived religious practice in the Greco-Roman world from the sixth century BCE to the third century CE. Studying a wide range of material, from buildings and artifacts to images and inscriptions, this course explores a series of major themes in the archaeology of Greco-Roman sacred space including housing and representing gods, sacrifice and divine communication, community identity and ritual performance, urban and rural topographies, and memory and religious change.
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CLAS 339: ANCIENT SCIENCE
Instructor: Professor James Collins
MW 3:30-4:50PM VKC108
Natural science in ancient Greece and Rome is difficult for us to distinguish from a variety of other intellectual pursuits and practices. It may at times resemble and have a share in the activities of philosophy, theology, technology, and magic. It may be the product of a solitary and indifferent scholar, an itinerant, competitive, and poetic sage, or a community spread out through time and space of thinkers and experimenters working in concert with shared techniques and objectives. Certain practices may variously rely on or reject the use of hypotheses, measurement, tradition, and metaphor. All of these efforts aim, however, at understanding or modeling natural, regular phenomena through investigation and the use of reason. This course examines the aims and underlying assumptions, origins, and transmission of these various activities while simultaneously asking questions about what constitutes good scientific thought and practice in our own world.
There are no official prerequisites for the course, but a familiarity with the broad outline of Greek and Roman history, as well as with modern scientific disciplines will prove helpful. The course is designed to be useful for Classics and Philosophy majors and minors, as well as students interested in science, history, and ethics more generally.
Journal of Philosophy-Call for all Papers!!
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To whom it may concern:
My name is Michael Hansen. I am the editor of Aporia: A Student Journal of Philosophy, which is issuing a call for papers. Our journal is published by the Brigham Young University Department of Philosophy and is dedicated to recognizing exemplary philosophical work at the undergraduate level.
We are now accepting submissions for our spring 2010 issue. If it would benefit your undergraduate students, please let them know about this opportunity to publish. Our deadline for submissions is Friday, January 22. I have attached a PDF bulletin with relevant information. Please contact me with any questions you may have, or visit our website at http://aporia.byu.edu.
Thank you for your time,
Michael Hansen
Editor, Aporia
The Philosophy Club Proudly Hosts
The Philosophy Club Proudly Hosts
Prof. Michael Waterman
USC Professor (see below)
on
Race and Genetics
This TUESDAY, NOV 17
5 PM
MHP 102
Professor Waterman, USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Computer Science and Mathematics, researches molecular sequence data using computational approaches. His work concentrates on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA, and protein sequence data. Professor Waterman is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formulas for physical mapping and sequencing.
Professor Waterman has told me the lecture part will be brief, so expect a lively discussion.
Should be fun
See You There!
Ben Rolnik, President of Philosophy Club
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157054412705&ref=mf
Philosophy Club Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50879978785&ref=ts
Prof. Michael Waterman
USC Professor (see below)
on
Race and Genetics
This TUESDAY, NOV 17
5 PM
MHP 102
Professor Waterman, USC Associates Chair in Natural Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences, Computer Science and Mathematics, researches molecular sequence data using computational approaches. His work concentrates on the creation and application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to molecular biology, particularly to DNA, RNA, and protein sequence data. Professor Waterman is the co-developer of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence comparison and of the Lander-Waterman formulas for physical mapping and sequencing.
Professor Waterman has told me the lecture part will be brief, so expect a lively discussion.
Should be fun
See You There!
Ben Rolnik, President of Philosophy Club
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157054412705&ref=mf
Philosophy Club Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50879978785&ref=ts
