Philosophy Club
The Philosophy Club first began as a small organization comprised of only a handful of students and faculty members looking for a casual atmosphere to discuss a wide range of philosophical issues. Today the Club has exploded in numbers. Over thirty members from a broad expanse of majors, from Philosophy to History to Biology and Economics, make up the Club.
The Club has combined a congenial atmosphere with intellectual discussions, forming a fine example of David Hume's description of human nature, as he writes in his "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," "Man is a sociable being, no less than a reasonable being." The Philosophy Club has combined the two in its regular dinners with Randolph-Macon Woman's College, as well as its on campus and local dinners and discussions. In the Undergraduate Virginia Philosophical Association dinners, students from across the state have discussed topics from a variety of philosophical issues, some of which included subjects of the ethical implications of nano-technology, animal rights, human flourishing in Aristotelian philosophy and socio-biology, as well as many others in previous years. The Club also takes excursions to lectures off campus, as well as hosting many visiting philosophers and thinkers from a number of fields, so that the interests of much of the campus may be included.
Recently, the Club has gone to the Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy for a series of lectures, as well as going to Georgetown University and Washington D.C. for a lecture by Eleonore Stump on Augustine and free will. Several speakers have come to campus, with topics ranging from utilitarianism to idealism, and the Club has also participated in a seminar with two leading Aristotelian scholars.
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