Posted on Friday, September 7, 2018

Clutter

One-sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Click on the image here for a printable, Adobe PDF of our One-Sheet on “Clutter.”

SOPHIA has created our journal, Civil American, and our radio show and podcast, Philosophy Bakes Bread, in part to offer content for conversations among our local chapters. The Chairman of SOPHIA’s Board of Trustees John Lachs published his short essay, “Clutter,” in the 2017 edition of Civil American not very long after his wife passed away. The objects in our lives can seem mundane, but they can also bear great emotional weight for us. The leaders of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter selected his essay as the focus of one of our “One-Sheet” documents, which will serve as the topic and guiding document for an upcoming chapter meeting. You can click on the thumbnail image of the one-sheet on the right hand side or you can open it by clicking here for a printable version of the “One Sheet” document on “Clutter.”

SOPHIA is grateful both to Dr. Lachs for his essay a well as to the leaders of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter for drafting the questions that groups can use to jump easily into fun philosophical conversation. Thanks to Caroline A. Buchanan, Derek Daskalakes, Erik Jarvis, James William Lincoln, and Eric Thomas Weber. If any groups choose to make use of this one-sheet also, we encourage them to let us know how the conversation went as well as what thoughts their group has for possible improvement of this one-sheet or for future pieces.

John Lachs facilitating a SOPHIA symposium in Oxford, MS.

John Lachs of Vanderbilt University

This piece includes the full content of Lachs’s short essay, thanks to Civil American Editor Shane Courtland. The author, John Lachs, is Centennial Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

SOPHIA has organized two panels to be held at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The second will take place on Thursday, January 10 from 1:30–4:30 p.m. See program code: G17B for the room location. The panel is titled:

Community and Moral Understanding

Chair:

Eric T. Weber (University of Kentucky)

Speakers:

Daniel J. Brunson (Morgan State University), “Communities of Moral Memory”

Anthony Cashio (University of Virginia College at Wise), “Personalism and Moral Communities”

James William Lincoln (University of Kentucky), “Community as a Way of Life: Inclusivity as a Moral Conception of How to Live”

The panel presentations will be followed by a business meeting.

Date:	January 10, 2019
Time:	01:30–04:30 p.m.
Event:	"Community and Moral Understanding" Panel @ the 2019 Eastern APA
Topic:	"Community and Moral Understanding"
Sponsor:	The American Philosophical Association 302.831.1112
Venue:	Sheraton New York Times Square 212.581.1000
Location:	811 7th Avenue 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 USA
Public:	Public
Registration:	Click here to register.
More Info:	Click here for more information.

If you're not currently a member of the Society of Philosophers in America, consider joining here.

SOPHIA has organized two panels to be held at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The first will take place on Wednesday, January 9 from 11:15am-1:15pm. See program code: G11F for the room location. The panel is titled:

Living Philosophies of Disability

Chair:

Daniel J. Brunson (Morgan State University)

Speakers:

Grace Joy Cebrero (University of Minnesota), “Actually, Nobody Cares: The Ethics of Care in Navigating the Workplace as an Invisibly Disabled Colleague”

Tommy J. Curry (Texas A&M University), “Orthopedic Injury, Pain Management, and Regenerative Medicine”

Nate Jackson (Capital University), “Individualisms and Security Measures: Producing and Performing Disability”

Eric T. Weber (University of Kentucky), “Stoic Pragmatism for Parenting a Child with Disabilities”

Date:	January 9, 2019
Time:	11:15 a.m. - 01:15 p.m.
Event:	"Living Philosophies of Disability" Panel @ the 2019 Eastern APA
Topic:	"Living Philosophies of Disability"
Sponsor:	The American Philosophical Association 302.831.1112
Venue:	Sheraton New York Times Square 212.581.1000
Location:	811 7th Avenue 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 USA
Public:	Public
Registration:	Click here to register.
More Info:	Click here for more information.

If you're not currently a member of the Society of Philosophers in America, consider joining here.

Posted on Thursday, August 9, 2018

The Philosopher Within You

One-sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

One-Sheet in Adobe PDF.

SOPHIA is grateful for permission from Dr. Andrew Pessin to share with you the following excerpt, “The Philosopher Within You,” from his book The 60-Second Philosopher. Leaders of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter got together to prepare for our next chapter meeting, read over Pessin’s essay, and drafted some guiding questions for our newest one-sheet document. These documents are meant to make the facilitation of fun, meaningful conversations easy.

The authors of the questions include Caroline A. Buchanan, Erik Jarvis, James William Lincoln, and Eric Thomas Weber. Click on the adobe logo on right or on the image of the one-sheet here to open a printable, Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet, which we plan to print front and back (keeping it on one sheet…).

For a printable Adobe PDF of the One-Sheet, click on this image or on the Adobe logo above.

Thanks to Dr. Pessin for permission to use this excerpt! We plan on prepare a number of one-sheets based on short essays from his book.

SOPHIA chapters interested in a copy of Pessin’s book can request one from SOPHIA by emailing Eric Thomas Weber at etweber@gmail.com. Anyone interested is encouraged to get a copy of the book too: Andrew Pessin, The 60-Second Philosopher (London: One-World Publications, 2013).

Photo of a meeting on July 24th, 2018, of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter, on "Disagreement," in which all many are laughing and smiling.

Photo of a meeting on July 24th, 2018, of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter, on “Disagreement,” held at the Good Foods Coop in Lexington, KY. If you live in or near central Kentucky, consider following the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter’s MeetUp.com profile.