Coffee Hour Sessions

Trevor Adams Graduate Student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Hope can range from the mundane (e.g. I hope the department party has cookies) to the life defining (e.g. I hope humanity comes together to overcome climate change). Hope theorists consider rationality constraints on hope that they claim

Blakely Phillips (@ifalioncould) Assistant Professor, Georgia State University, Perimeter College What does it mean to believe in yourself? Is it to believe that you are likely to succeed? Such belief might in many cases seen unjustified or irrational. For example, when someone believes in her abil

Michael R. Spicher (@MRSpicher) Independent Adjunct, MassArt and Boston Architectural College Scraping and cleaning the inside of a petrol tank, Primo Levi toiled away the hours, trapped as a prisoner in Auschwitz. One day, through a kind of fortunate situation, he was chosen to accompany a fellow

Thomas Bonn (@HieronymusBonn) PhD Candidate, CU Boulder In the myths at the end of the Phaedo, Republic, and Gorgias, Socrates seems to suggest that certain souls are so wicked that they cannot be cured, even in the afterlife. A passage from the Gorgias provides a chilling illustration: "From amon

Leo Lepiano (@nobodyslion) Independent Scholar [Extended abstract] Back to the Rough Ground (Coffee Hour) https://www.wix.app/bookings/eb8a912c-ef9c-48a3-8e33-8769d18639ff/service/3ceff86d-b4d1-4b36-a8c3-ad2b59e97e36/details?d=https://www.cogtweeto.com/service-page/back-to-the-rough-ground-coffee-

Jonathan McKinney (@mc_kupo) PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati As the global ecological, psychological, and economic crises worsen by the day, it would seem that hope for life on our planet is dimming. Luckily for us, human beings (and philosophers as a subspecies of humanity) are profoundly