Department of Social Sciences
Pittsburg State University
Philosophical Society
The PSU Philosophical Society promotes philosophical
activity at Pittsburg State University by sponsoring speakers, supporting
library acquisitions, addressing philosophical questions through published
writings by its members as well as other students and faculty of PSU, and taking
trips to philosophical conferences. Faculty Advisor: Dr. Donald Wayne
Viney (dviney@pittstate.edu
)
Activities of the PSU Philosophical Society in the
past:
- Trip to Manhattan, Kansas to see lecture by Professor
Michael Ruse.
- Publication of Logos-Sophia: The Journal of the Pittsburg State
University Philosophical Society
- Weekly Meetings at Java Dave's
- Speakers Series - Fall Semester 2005 Dr. Douglas
Patterson (Kansas State University) "Some Issues in the Definition of Truth"
- Trip to the Kansas Philosophical Society meeting in Wichita, KS,
February, 2006.
- Weekly Meetings in the Overman Student Center.
- Speaker Series - Dr. Mark L. Price (Columbia College) "Autonomy and
Solicitude in End of Life Care", March 31st, 2006, Overman Student
Center, Balkans Room, 3:00pm to 5:00 pm.
- Speaker Series - Dr. Sandra LaPointe (Kansas State University) "How to be an
Anti-Psychologist: Husserl" April 2006.
Links for Students:
Logos-Sophia: The
Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society
Most Recent Issue: Volume 13, Fall/Winter 2005 [Table of
Contents will be posted shortly.]
Members of the PSU Philosophical Society at a lecture by Professor Michael
Ruse in Manhattan, Kansas (11/10/05)
 
Part of our Visiting Speaker Series for the 05/05 Academic Year: Dr. Douglas Patterson (Kansas State University) giving his talk "Some Issues in
the Definition of Truth" (11/2005)
 
Part of our Visiting Speaker Series for the 05/06
Academic Year: Dr. Mark Price (Columbia College) giving his talk "Autonomy and Solicitude in
End of Life Care" (3/31/2006)
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