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Winner of the Agnes Archer Warren Award for his Honors Thesis, “Immigration Enforcement and Electronic Monitoring: Reification within a Racialized State Apparatus” (more here). Congratulations, Jackson! Favorite philosophy class at Bucknell. What did you like about it? Greek Philosophy provided exceptionally stimulating discussions and papers that challenged me to improve as a thinker and writer every day, in and out of the classroom. Favorite philosopher, philosophical quote, or philosophical question (someone or something that you may have returned to again and again).  What do you like about them/it? “But rather some malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has […]

Congratulations to Mary on her January graduation! We asked our graduating seniors to tell us a bit about their time studying philosophy at Bucknell. This week, we’ll be showcasing our students’ answers. Favorite philosophy class at Bucknell. What did you like about it? Choosing a favorite is difficult. Each philosophy course I took was unique, opened my mind to new ideas, and helped me consider various perspectives, so I enjoyed all of them. Favorite philosopher, philosophical quote, or philosophical question (someone or something that you may have returned to again and again).  What do you like about them/it? I often […]

Congratulations on all of your successes, Yubo! We asked our graduating seniors to tell us a bit about their time studying philosophy at Bucknell. This week, we’ll be showcasing our students’ answers. Favorite philosophy class at Bucknell. What did you like about it? It has to be Metaphysics! The class involved not only enlightening lectures on profound topics but also many thoughtful discussions among peers, so I enjoyed it a lot! Favorite philosopher, philosophical quote, or philosophical question (someone or something that you may have returned to again and again).  What do you like about them/it? My favorite philosopher is […]

We asked our graduating seniors to tell us a bit about their time studying philosophy at Bucknell. This week, we’ll be showcasing our students’ answers. Congratulations to Sara Butler on winning the Fulbright fellowship to study quantum optics with the University of Vienna’s Aspelmeyer Group! Favorite philosophy class at Bucknell. What did you like about it? Philosophy of Being and Becoming. It was my first introduction to really metaphysical concepts and it sparked my interest in space and time. Favorite philosopher, philosophical quote, or philosophical question (someone or something that you may have returned to again and again).  What do […]

Congratulations to Philosophy and Geography double-major Jackson Ingram, who recently (successfully!) defended his honors thesis “Immigration Enforcement and Electronic Monitoring: Reification Within a Racialized State Apparatus”. This culminates four years of interdisciplinary research with his Presidential Fellows Mentor Vanessa Massaro from Geography and work in Philosophy (stemming in particular from Adam Burgos’s Philosophy and Race course).

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Professor Adam Burgos will be co-presenting the Gonzaga University Philosophy Department Colloquium with his collaborator there, Dr. Alejandro Arango on Thursday March 25th at 7:30PM (eastern time) via Zoom. All are welcome. Abstract: The debate about the definition of Latinidad as a social identity has fluctuated between accounts that put it closer to ethnicity (mainly represented by the work of Jorge J. E. Gracia) or closer to race (mainly represented by the work of Linda Alcoff). We present and defend the claim that the multiplicity of features and experiences of Latinos in the United States is best accounted for by steering away […]

Congratulations to Professor Slater and his students, Emily Scholfield ’22 and Conor Moore ’21 on their recent publication in Frontiers in Communication, “Reporting on Science as an Ongoing Process (or Not)”. The paper is published open access; you can read it here. Here’s the abstract: Efforts to cultivate scientific literacy in the public are often aimed at enabling people to make more informed decisions — both in their own lives (e.g., personal health, sustainable practices, &c.) and in the public sphere. Implicit in such efforts is the cultivation of some measure of trust of science. To what extent does science reporting in […]

Thursday, October 29th at 4:30PM (online) What are your fellow students up to? What are they writing on, thinking about in their courses, research projects, and beyond? We hope you’ll join us for an online mini-conference. We have four students giving short (<10 minute) talks on their recent work. A Zoom link will be emailed out to students and posted on the Bucknell Message Center; if you would like to attend and don’t have the link, please look there (or email jkbaker@bucknell.edu). If you have the link and would like to share it with friends and family, please feel free. […]

Congratulations to Professor Katherine Ward who recently published “Breaking down experience—Heidegger’s methodological use of breakdown in Being and Time” in the European Journal of Philosophy. Here’s the abstract: Phenomenologists draw on descriptions of experience to uncover the conditions that enable experience. However, a second‐order or distanced view of experience can distort it. In his analysis of the ready‐to‐hand, Heidegger utilizes experiences of breakdown to avoid this problem, but he does not provide a detailed account of why this methodology is effective. I use Heidegger’s analysis of interpretation to reconstruct a detailed account of the breakdown methodology and show why it […]

Philosophy students know the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) as an indispensable, open access resource for students, faculty, and anyone else interested in philosophy. When I first came to Bucknell in 2009, I noticed that the entry on Race was written by a professor in the Political Science Department (now Associate Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences), Michael James. “Wow, this guy is a serious philosopher!” I thought. (It’s always nice to find philosophers in other departments. . . .) The SEP requests that authors do what they can to keep their entries up to date with often rapidly […]