THAT Club Student Colloquium

By Amanda Holmes

Last year, some of the other philosophy students and I started the SXU Philosophy Club. We hosted a forum on environmental philosophy and a film screening of Grizzly Man last semester.

We decided to rename our club at our first meeting this year. We are now called “THAT Club.” We were trying to come up with a name that represented the general idea of the club. Since our mission was kind of vague (to provide cool and intellectually stimulating things to do) we decided that the most appropriate name would be THAT Club. The ‘THAT’ of THAT Club is in all caps to give the illusion of an acronym. There is no acronym…yet. Anyway, our first big event is coming up this Monday.

THAT Club will be hosting a student colloquium from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Mon., Nov. 9 in the Fourth Floor Board Room. Marcella Russo and I will each be presenting parts of our senior thesis papers.

Marcella will be presenting her paper on the philosophy of language. Her paper is titled "Maintaining First Person Authority in David Finkelstein's 'Expression and the Inner': The Question of Intimacy."

I will be presenting my paper in political philosophy titled "Democracy as practice in Balibar's 'Spinoza and Politics': Radical Democracy in Spinoza's Political Thought."
Marcella and I are going to Henderson State University in Arkansas next weekend to present our papers at an undergraduate philosophy conference there. We are hoping to get some feedback on our papers from other students at SXU before going to the conference.

So, if you are not doing anything more interesting, which is highly unlikely because this is going to be super interesting, you should come to our colloquium. And if you are doing something else, you should cancel your plans and come to our colloquium instead.

Amanda Holmes is a senior philosophy major from Atlanta, GA. She is vice president of the Philosophy Club. Consideration for the student bloggers is provided by Saint Xavier University.