Concordia Philosophy Student Weekly Tabloid Vol. 18
We’ve approached the 2/3 mark of the semester. I don’t know about everyone else, but I know the semester weighs heavy on my shoulders.
As we scramble to live up to academic expectations and other expectations (family, relationships, job, etc..) remember to take time to breathe and escape the system of demands. Go for a walk. Take a time-out.
For a time-out, consider Concordia’s ever-so-cute therapy dogs, have an insightful chat with grandma, or even take a fall walk through the beautiful Mount Royal Park!
Consider also spending an afternoon at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts adjacent to the SGW campus. It’s free (yes free!) for anyone under 20 years and for everyone on the first Sunday of every month (November 6th).
Also, remember that grades don’t define you. In my first year of university I failed two courses and still managed to complete my first university degree. The important thing is to reflect on your mistakes. As Aristotle said:
“Complete happiness will be its activity expressing its proper virtue; and [. . .] this activity is the activity of study” (NE Book 10 1177a:17-18).
“He who neither understands it himself nor takes to heart what he hears from another is a useless [person]” (NE Book 1 1095b:11-12).
Here’s the 18th Volume of the Concordia Philosophy Student Weekly Tabloid! Bringing you all the hottest and best events and relevant philosophy news.
This week, we disseminate news about:
- Our November executive meeting
- SoPhiA by-elections
- A call for editors!
- A philosophy speaker talk
- Various Concordia events:
- A lecture series on sensation
- Learn to cite using the Chicago Manual of Style
- And more!
- A book recommendation
SoPhiA November Executive Meeting
SoPhiA will be holding our November Executive Meeting on Thursday November 10th, at 4:10pm in the SoPhiA space of the philosophy department.
All students are welcome to attend to hear what we’re up to and provide input.
We’ll discuss:
- Planning a special general assembly to discuss grievances on behalf of philosophy students (as was mandated in the Annual General Assembly)
- Discuss the department award task force
- Discuss the SoPhiA Review
Contact us for the meeting agenda.
Member Association by-Elections
The Arts and Science Federation of Association (ASFA) will host a by-election for Member Associations (Such as SoPhiA!)
Nominations for positions begin on November 7th. Here are the election dates:
- Nomination period: Nov 7 – Nov 11, 2022
- Campaign period: Nov 14 – Nov 21, 2022
- Voting Period: Nov 22 – Nov 24, 2022
We have several positions open to run for in the upcoming election:
- Academic Accessibility Representative
- ASFA Representative
- SoPhiA Review Editor-in-Chief
See our Executive Position Descriptions page for more information on the positions, or feel free to get in touch with us. Becoming a SoPhiA executive is a rewarding and engaging experience!
In short, you fill out a form stating your intention to be a candidate in the upcoming election during the nomination period; campaign during the campaigning period (optional); and then philosophy students will vote on the candidates during the voting period.
It’s really is not as scary as it sounds and is actually pretty fun to better understand the voting process by participating in it.
See the ASFA website for more by-election information.
Call for Editors: The SoPhiA Review
Are you interested in taking part in a cool editing project? Want to be part of a fledging journal?
SoPhiA is hoping to bring back this year its annual undergraduate journal, The SoPhiA Review! And we need your help!
We’re looking for people with a good eye, a capacity to read different texts, the ability to work in a team, and solid editing skills. The candidates will be part of the editor team to read, edit, design, and publish student works in our annual journal!
The journal is usually published in the winter term, but the recruiting and planning of the journal occurs in the late fall.
Contact president dot sophia at asfa dot ca for more info.
Who: The SoPhiA Review
What: A call for editors
See some previous published works on our website.
Philosophy Department Speaker Talk: “Social Norms in Nonhuman Animals”
The Concordia philosophy department is hosting their third speaker talk of the semester.
Kristin Andrews is York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto will present a talk on Social Norms in Nonhuman Animals.
“She will develop an operationalized account of social norms as a socially maintained pattern of behavioral conformity within a community and offer methods for studying social norms in wild and captive primate populations.”
Who: Kristin Andrews
What: Philosophy Speaker Talk
When: Friday November 4th, 3-5pm
Where: J.W McConnell Building, room LB-362
Various Concordia Events
There are several events in the next week that may be interesting to philosophy students. Here are a few:
- Sensation lecture series: November 4, 11am
- “According to the conventional wisdom, sensation occupies the lowest rung of the perceptual apparatus, next comes perception, and the crown goes to cognition. This virtual lecture series aims to upset this pyramid by arguing that far more goes on at the level of sensation than is commonly thought.”
- We’re Listening: cleaning on campus: November 9, 10am
- “We would like to hear from you about the state of our buildings. We’d like to know what you’ve observed between 2019 and today and where you think improvements could be made.
- We are offering a session on each campus to discuss cleaning and maintenance.”
- Citing in Chicago – Online: November 10, 2:30pm
- “Learn to cite your sources using the Chicago Manual of Style’s footnote format.”
- Useful for philosophy students because most of our essays and manuscripts will be written in the Chicago Manual of Style format!
- Human Rights Lecture: Transitional Justice for Racial Injustice: November 10, 4:15pm
- “In this lecture, Dr. Zvobgo will discuss transitional justice as a vehicle for racial justice, in the United States and beyond.”
- Law Meets Engineering: Data Governance and Cybersecurity: November 5:30pm
- “In this presentation, Me Henri, an Emerging Tech Lawyer – Disruptor, and Le Roux, an Engineer – Cybersecurity Leader, will explore and answer key questions in relation to data governance and cybersecurity, covering interesting applied legal challenges regarding data as corporate assets.”
See more of Concordia’s events
SoPhiA Book Library: Weekly Book Recommendation
This week’s highlighted book:
The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism
“The New Leviathan, originally published in 1942, a few months before the author’s death, is the book which R. G. Collingwood chose to write in preference to completing his life’s work on the philosophy of history. It was a reaction to the Second World War and the threat which Nazism and Fascism constituted to civilization. The book draws upon many years of work in moral and political philosophy and attempts to establish the multiple and complex connections between the levels of consciousness, society, civilization, and barbarism.
Collingwood argues that traditional social contract theory has failed to account for the continuing existence of the non-social community and its relation to the social community in the body politic. He is also critical of the tendency within ethics to confound right and duty. The publication of additional manuscript material in this revised edition demonstrates in more detail how Collingwood was determined to show that right and duty occupy
different levels of rational practical consciousness. The additional material also contains Collingwood’s unequivocal rejection of relativism.”
If you didn’t know, SoPhiA has a library of over 650 books! We have books from different domains of philosophy and some outside philosophy (psychology, business, political science, and even novels). We even have textbooks for some of your courses! (e.g., PHIL-210, 235, 260, 266, and more)
You can borrow a book for an hour, or even the whole semester. Just drop by our office or send us an email.
You can see our complete library of books online on our Librarika virtual library.
What: Books!
Where: The SoPhiA library (in our office space)
Do you know of any cool philosophy-related events in Montreal or the Concordia Community? Please let us know and we will advertise them here!
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