News & Events

Monday, April 7, 2025
5:00pm
Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall

The idea that jails and prisons are flawed beyond repair and that we should gradually abolish them—the prison abolitionist proposal—has gained substantial traction in recent years, especially in light of the ongoing Black Lives Matter Movement and heightened public awareness of the failures and unequal impact of our criminal legal system. Discussion of the abolitionist proposal in philosophy has been largely critical.

Monday, March 31, 2025
5:00pm-6:30pm
Naylor Auditorium, Gailor Hall

Our relationships with other animals are changing. We know so much more about different species, we enter long and meaningful relationships with companion animals, and we use and kill an unprecedented number of other animals with a new level of detachment.

Thursday October 6th
McGriff Alumni House, 8:00pm CDT 

With Sid Simpson (Dept of Politics), Kartik Misra (Dept of Economics), and Mark Hopwood (Dept of Philosophy).

Candice Delmas will be presenting her central reasons for thinking that in the face of injustice, ordinary citizens have a moral obligation to resist injustice though acts of principled disobedience which are both civil and uncivil.

Philosophy major Brian Reynolds C'90 talks about how his training in the Sewanee philosophy department led to his current job as a video game designer.