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Philosophy Night Owls Returns: Political Violence 

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
8:00pm

This Wednesday Night Owls returns! At 8 p.m. in the McGriff Alumni House a moderated panel of professors will discuss political violence. 
Night Owls conversations focus on bringing together professors from different disciplines to discuss philosophical issues that are important in our modern day. 
Snacks and coffee will be provided for this late night conversation! Come enjoy listening to the conversation or take part in it yourself!

The Just War Tradition: Evaluating the Moral Status of Modern Warfare.

Wednesday April 1, 2026
7:30pm

The Philosophy Club and the Philosophy Department warmly invite you to a lecture by J. Daryl Charles entitled “The Just War Tradition: Evaluating the Moral Status of Modern Warfare.”

J. Daryl Charles, Ph.D., is a senior fellow of the Center for Religion, Culture, & Democracy and serves as a contributing editor of both Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy and the journal Touchstone. He is author or editor of 24 books, including – most recently – The Idea and Importance of Natural Law: 50 Questions and Answers (Stone Tower Press, 2025), Our Secular Vocation (B&H Academic, 2023), (with Eric D. Patterson) Just War and Christian Traditions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), and (with Mark David Hall) America’s Wars and the Just War Tradition: A History of U.S. Conflicts (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019).

Defending Incarceration Abolition

Monday, April 7, 2025
5:00pm


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.

Animals and Us: What Gets in the Way?

Monday, March 31, 2025
5:00pm-6:30pm

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.

Sewanee Night Owls presents: Is it time for socialism in the United States?

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).

RESISTING INJUSTICE - A LECTURE BY CANDICE DELMAS

Candice Delmas will be presenting her central reasons for thinking that in the face of injustice, ordinary citizens have a moral obligationÌý³Ù´ÇÌýresist injusticeÌý³Ù³ó´Ç³Ü²µ³óÌýacts of principled disobedience which are both civilÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýuncivil.

Brian Reynolds C'90 featured on Sewanee website

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.