Horses, apes, and dogs use mockery to create their own politics. These animals pranksters play deceptive tricks on their superiors bringing down the alphas. Their high stakes games of status and power do not show evidence of abstract moral thought, but they do enact an ancient political ethics that predates human exceptionalism and is common across species human and nonhuman.Cynthia Willett is an American philosopher who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University,...
Horses, apes, and dogs use mockery to create their own politics. These animals pranksters play deceptive tricks on their superiors bringing down the alphas. Their high stakes games of status and power do not show evidence of abstract moral thought, but they do enact an ancient political ethics that predates human exceptionalism and is common across species human and nonhuman.Cynthia Willett is an American philosopher who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University,...
Horses, apes and dogs use mockery to create their own politics. These animals pranksters play deceptive tricks on their superiors bringing down the alphas. Their high stakes games of status and power do not show evidence of abstract moral thought, but they do enact an ancient political ethics that predates human exceptionalism and is common across species human and nonhuman. Cynthia Willett is an American philosopher who is Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of Philosophy at Emory University,...
Horses, apes and dogs use mockery to create their own politics. These animals pranksters play deceptive tricks on their superiors bringing down the alphas. Their high stakes games of status and power do not show evidence of abstract moral thought, but they do enact an ancient political ethics that predates human exceptionalism and is common across species human and nonhuman. Cynthia Willett is an American philosopher who is Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of Philosophy at Emory University,...
Junior political science and philosophy double major Derek Kim interned this summer helping Jordanians in need in Amman, Jordan. He did this internship through the School for International Training as part of the “Refugees, Health and Humanitarian Action in Jordan” program. Kim wasn’t aware of the study abroad program until he inquired about this type of opportunity at the International Education Center. The staff walked him through the application process. “I looked at the program...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2 - 3:15 p.m. A&S Auditorium The rejection of slavery by the major European powers early in the 19th century was the result of a moral invention of an unprecedented character and yet, until recently, there was almost no mention of any aspect of slavery in histories of ethics or of political philosophy. This was in spite of the fact that questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a regular part of moral philosophy courses at universities...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2 - 3:15 p.m. A&S Auditorium The rejection of slavery by the major European powers early in the 19th century was the result of a moral invention of an unprecedented character and yet, until recently, there was almost no mention of any aspect of slavery in histories of ethics or of political philosophy. This was in spite of the fact that questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a regular part of moral philosophy courses at universities...
Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium 2024 In Partnership with Georgia College Research Day March 26 and 27, 2024 Co-sponsored by MURACE, The Women’s Center at Georgia College & State University, the Cultural Center at GCSU, the Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies Department, the College of Arts and Sciences and GCSU. For more information contact Dr. Katie Simon at katie.simon@gcsu.edu. Program Schedule: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Georgia College...
Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium 2024 In Partnership with Georgia College Research Day March 26 and 27, 2024 Co-sponsored by MURACE, The Women’s Center at Georgia College & State University, the Cultural Center at GCSU, the Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies Department, the College of Arts and Sciences and GCSU. For more information contact Dr. Katie Simon at katie.simon@gcsu.edu. Program Schedule: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Georgia College...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
