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Elizabeth Foreman Guest Lecture
Join the Philosophy Department in welcoming Elizabeth Foreman dicsussing "The Ethics of Eating".
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2018 Lauter Prize Winner

Senior Philosophy major Arianna Nord is the recipient of the 2018 Lauter Prize in Philosophy for her essay Feminist Jurisprudence and Intersectional Identity.

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Philosophy Senior Comp Presentations
Philosophy Senior Comp Presentations
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The Philosophy Seniors will be presenting their Comps  Wednesday, November 29th in Fowler 207 at 3:00-6:00pm
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Philosophy in 15: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Or Anything Else?)

Join the Philosophy Department for a free Spitz lunch and Professor Dylan Sabo's discussion, in 15 minutes, of some important philosophical questions raised by artificial intelligence.

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Ideology and Moral Knowledge
Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks about her research
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2017 Lauter Prize Winner

Senior Philosophy Major Brad Kawano is the recipient of the 2017 Lauter Prize in Philosophy for his essay.

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Department Meet and Greet

Occidental’s Philosophy and Religious Studies Departments held a joint meet and greet where students were able to meet other majors/minors and prospective majors/minors. The meeting also included a discussion of the importance of humanities majors and the employability of liberal arts degrees.

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Philosophy in 15: Truth and Bullshit

The Philosophy department held its first talk in a series entitled "Philosophy in 15," where big ideas are explored in 15 minutes. This talk, given by Department Chair Professor Morrissey, centered around the concept of Truth.

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Never in Anger
Owen Flanagan, Ph.D., James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, came to speak about the danger of anger
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