MCLA Blog

MCLA students and Faculty will showcase their research at the 5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference on Thursday, April 18th in Murdock 320.
You can view a list of the students and their papers and posters here.  Faculty advisors include:
Dr. Sumi Colligan, Sociology
Dr. David Langston, English/Communications

Dr. Peggy Brooks, Psychology
Dr. Alla Kucher, Mathematics
Dr. Anthony Daily, History
Dr. Maria Bartini, […]

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This is just a sampling of the reviews of Sentience and Sensibility, a book this blog highlighted several weeks a go.
“[Sentience and Sensibility] is a lively philosophical dialogue on the moral status of living things, human and otherwise. The protagonist defends a multi-level account on which we have direct moral obligations to all and only […]

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Dialogue, as a literary form for philosophical investigation, has been largely dormant for a couple of millenia, punctuated only by brief resurgences (e.g.:  the Renaissance, the Eighteenth Century). Yet it is by far the most natural and inviting way to explore philosophical questions, as witness the perennial appeal of Plato’s Socratic dialogues. This book attempts […]

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