The University of Dayton’s Philosophy Club usually meets once a month. The club gives philosophy students to opportunity to discuss philosophical issues they haven’t studied in class, to apply philosophical reflection to world affairs, and to learn about what other students are thinking and writing. Philosophy faculty members help to coordinate the club’s events, but club sessions are usually led by philosophy students. The Philosophy Club’s activities over the past few years have included the following:

• Teresa Reimers, a 1998 UD philosophy alum, returned to campus to talk to philosophy students about her experiences working for the past four years with international community development organizations in the rural Philippines and Kosovo
• Dr. John Inglis and Dr. Andy Slade presided over a 100th birthday celebration for Theodor Adorno, a founder of the influential Frankfurt school of critical theory
• Shannon Driscoll (class of 2003) gave a presentation on her Honors philosophy thesis, which discussed images of Mary in Marianist thought and in feminist philosophy
• Dan Hutmacher (class of 2003) presented a paper he wrote during a summer abroad in Berlin on Leibniz’s and Kant’s conceptions of free will
• Dominic Marcellino (class of 2002) presented his Honors philosophy thesis on the ethical importance of conceptions of economic regulation in the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change
• Philosophy faculty members held a panel presentation on how to prepare and apply for graduate study in philosophy
• Students led a discussion on the ways in which philosophy might help us to think about the meanings of and appropriate responses to the September 11 attacks
• The Club invited members of the Falun Dafa Practice Group from Ohio State to give a presentation on the philosophy and spiritual practices of Falun Gong, as well as the political suppression of Falun Gong in the People’s Republic of China
• The Club invited UD biology professors Shirley Wright and David Wright to discuss scientific and ethical dimensions of recent reproductive technologies