The St. Philip's College
Philosophy Club
Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Thank you, Stella Nanez, for your support of the Philosophy Club!
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Thank you, Jennifer, one of my students in "Ethics" PHIL 2306!
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Academic Year 2023 - 2024
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Academic Year 2022 - 2023
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Academic Year 2021 - 2022
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Philosophy Faculty suspended face-to-face meetings of the Philosophy Club, and instead focused on online programs, such as the Ethics Bowl. Our deep thanks to Charlie Langston for leading the effort as the Coach for the Ethics Bowl team this year.
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Academic Year 2020 - 2021
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Philosophy Faculty suspended face-to-face meetings of the Philosophy Club, and instead focused on online programs, such as the Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership. Our deep thanks to Marie Feldmeier and Andrew Hill for leading the effort this year.
Academic Year 2019 - 2020
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Academic Year 2018 - 2019
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Academic Year 2017 - 2018
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On Friday, February 16, 2018, Prof. Matthew Grant Fuller and I, Andrew Joseph Hill, joined my son "AJ" and the three of us visited with the members of the Trinity University Philosophy Club. They have regularly scheduled meetings on Friday afternoons, so we drove over to participate in their discussion: "What are the Aesthetics of Rock?" It was a lively, humorous, and interesting conversation about the history of rock-and-roll, counter-culturalism, and the ethics of music. I learned A LOT about modern music. So, our heartfelt thanks to our philosophy colleagues at Trinity University. We appreciate the invitation! |
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Prof. Fuller and Club students volunteering with the American Red Cross:
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Profs. Fuller and Hill with Club students at the Fall 2017 Interfaith Dialogue:
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Academic Year 2016 - 2017
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Members of the Club attended a lecture by Prof. Amir Hussain in September 2016:
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Our meetings are generally informal, where we mix great discussion and pizza:
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Academic Year 2015 - 2016
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Our students were able to visit with Jim Avila when he visited campus in October:
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Rev. Esperandieu Pierre returned to our campus in October 2015:
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LeVar Burton
Actor, Reading Rainbow, Leader
February 11, 2016
11 a.m., Watson Fine Arts Center
St. Philip’s College welcomed LeVar Burton as the guest lecturer for a Black History Month President’s Lecture Series program where the leader of Reading Rainbow traveled to Bowden Elementary School, also named for SPC President Emeritus and Saint Artemisia Bowden, to personally read to the students there. On campus, guests heard from and asked important questions concerning the business of literacy with Burton.
Actor, Reading Rainbow, Leader
February 11, 2016
11 a.m., Watson Fine Arts Center
St. Philip’s College welcomed LeVar Burton as the guest lecturer for a Black History Month President’s Lecture Series program where the leader of Reading Rainbow traveled to Bowden Elementary School, also named for SPC President Emeritus and Saint Artemisia Bowden, to personally read to the students there. On campus, guests heard from and asked important questions concerning the business of literacy with Burton.
Academic Year 2014 - 2015
SPC philosophy students at Trinity University’s Stieren Lecture Series with Philosophy Professor Susan Feagin on March 18, 2015.
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Our Philosophy students had a chance to visit with the Rev. Esperandieu Pierre when he returned to our campus on Tuesday, 03 March 2015.
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We attended the Trinity University’s Distinguished Lecture Series with David Brooks, of the New York Times and the PBS Newshour, on November 12, 2014.
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Our students visited St. Mary’s University to attend their “Community Conversations Series” which featured Ms. Ivy Taylor, San Antonio Mayor, on October 7, 2014.
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On September 30, 2014, the Philosophy Club sponsored a presentation by Greg Pardo III, a Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State.
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On Wednesday, September 17, 2014, the Philosophy Club hosted a conversation with Rev. Esperandieu Pierre, a pastor and humanitarian aid worker from Haiti.
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Julian Bond
Statesman & Former NAACP Chairman of the Board (1998-2010)
February 5, 2015 -
11 a.m., Watson Fine Arts Center -
St. Philip’s College welcomed The Honorable Julian Bond, an American leader of depth in movements for civil rights, economic justice and peace, as its final 2014-2015 season President’s Lecture Series speaker. The lecture series program for African-American History Month was an interactive conversation led by Bond on basic questions about both the historic journeys and future directions of civil rights movements in America. Always present on the scene of social change and leadership in America, Bond shared his perspectives and wisdom in response to audience questions on the meanings of leadership, equality, freedom and justice for all. For the benefit of guests, Bond also spoke of personally overcoming obstacles en route to successfully leading iconic social and political initiatives that have alternately benefited, influenced and inspired many, from his early college days as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to his efforts to give back as an elected official, a vice-presidential nominee and chairman of the NAACP.
Academic Year 2013 - 2014
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The Philosophy Club meets on Tuesdays afternoons at 12:30 in Sutton Learning Center #201
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February 2014:
Students at the federal courthouse to hear oral arguments in constitutional law case: De Leon v. Perry |
February 2014:
Guest Speakers Michael & Kat Law, visiting from the United Kingdom |
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December 2013: Guest Speaker Prof. Davis
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November 2013: Lecture by Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama
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October 2013: Lecture by Prof. Derek Parfit
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Renown philosopher, Dr. Derek Parfit, presented the Trinity University DeCoursey Lecture for the 2013-2014 academic year. In his public talk, “We Are Not Human Beings,” Dr. Parfit explored problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics and the relations between them.
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