A student is bringing back the Philosophy Club on campus to create unity between the humanities.
Nash Carey, religion senior and current leader of the Philosophy Club, said the first meeting will be at 12:15 p.m. Thursday in Room 140 in Walker Center for Arts and Sciences. He said he is resurrecting the Philosophy Club to create a common ground between the different humanities majors.
“Philosophy is kind of where the humanities meet. You’ve got everything from religion, psychology, sociology, and political science, even. Everything meets in the middle with philosophy,” he said. “Philosophy is the place where all those great thinkers from all those great disciplines come together.”
Carey said Dr. Nathan Ross, professor of philosophy and department chairman, approached him to recreate the philosophy club after a previous one ended due to lack of interest.
“I guess there was one that dissolved/died out about a year ago,” he said. “It had some funds left over, and Dr. Ross recruited me and said, ‘hey, how would you like to see about putting something like this back together?’ And I said, ‘certainly.’”
An average meeting in the Philosophy Club would have a 15-20 minute presentation given by a guest speaker, teacher or student, and the rest of the time would be spent discussing the ideas in the presentation.
Ross said there have been a lot of students interested in starting a club.
“We’ve kind of always had a club, but it hasn’t really been active,” he said. “I noticed a lot of students in my classes wanting to talk about philosophy outside of class, or they seem interested in wanting to pursue it further. So I suggested, ‘why don’t we have a philosophy club meeting?’”
Ross said he wants students in the club to use philosophy to discuss things not brought up in class.
“If I’m teaching a class, I’m kind of setting the agenda, but I want them to see that they can use some of the methods and ideas to talk about movies that they are interested in or current events,” he said. “I’d like the topics to come from the students.”
Carey said he wants students to see the utility of philosophy in their every day lives.
“The most beautiful part about it is that they can see some practical applications of some philosophy that’s out there,” he said. “As well as an opportunity to meet people from different arts and sciences that have had this opportunity to come together and have a common language through philosophy.”
If any students have any questions or would like to get involved, they may email Carey at necarey@my.okcu.edu.
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