Cafe Socrates
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Cafe Socrates is a weekly undergraduate philosophy discussion group. We meet every Thursday from 6 to 8 PM, though people are not expected to stay for the whole two hours and often drop in for just a part. One or two faculty are usually present to get discussion started and moderate the conversation, but students pick the topics, and it is supposed to be their conversation. We also sometimes offer debates, formal presentations, and movie nights. Many involved students are philosophy majors or minors, but engineers, business majors, and artists attend as frequently as philosophy majors do. Some Past Café Socrates Topics Heroism Are we responsible for our emotions? Obscenity and Censorship Suicide Is capitalism immoral? Moral relativism What’s the Good Life? God and Value Abortion Euthanasia Vegetarianism Is war ever morally justified? Evil Environmental Ethics Do the dead have rights? Dreams and Reality Self-Knowledge Can Computers Think? Is there such a thing as fate? What is Truth? Arguments for God’s existence The Nature of Love Human nature in Chinese Philosophy What is Beauty? Sex and Power Death Religious Pluralism Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Was Socrates guilty? |
