April 2022 – Prometheus Undergraduate Philosophy Journal

Some of the images from the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Conference can be seen below. Thank you once again to all who came to the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on April 9th, and special thanks to our keynote speaker, Professor Lucy Allais, for her talk on “A Kantian Account of Freedom of the Will,” to Rima Hussein and Fearghus Horan from Johns Hopkins’s chapter of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) for their workshop on applying to graduate school in philosophy, and to all of our undergraduate presenters for providing excellent presentations (whose names and talks will be listed below).

Sabah Rainey (Centre College), “New Streets and Signs: Street Art as a Response to Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance”

Jintao Zhu (University of Cambridge), “The Semi-liberal View: A Useful Account of the Meaning of Life”

Gillan Chalono (Amherst College), “The Personal is Political: Property as a Distributive Interface”

Codey Carr (Occidental College), “de Tocqueville on Materialism in Modern Democracy”

Long Nguyen (Hillsdale College), “Language and Common Sense in Berkeley’s Philosophy”

Tobias Rivas (Grinnell College), “Reasoning Together”

Mia Reiland (Swarthmore College), “Duties to the Environment as Seen Through Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals”

Weiming Sheng (Vassar College), “Plato’s Tripartite Classification of Normative Reasons” – Winner of the Best Essay Award

Attendees and speakers, from left to right, bottom to top. First row: Lawrence Cao, Madeleine Schmitz. Second row: Ava Lasmanis, Professor Lucy Allais, Areli Villavicencio, Weiming Sheng, Cecilia Miller, Zayeed Akhter, Nhat Tran. Third row: Clara Kraft, Long Nguyen, Codey Carr, Gillan Chalono, Annelisa O’Neal, Jonas Zhai, Damon Choi. Fourth row: Rima Hussein, Fearghus Horan, Tobias Rivas, Sabah Rainey

Conference speakers, from left to right: Professor Lucy Allais, Codey Carr, Gillan Chalono, Weiming Sheng, Sabah Rainey, Tobias Rivas, Long Nguyen

Speakers and attendees having lunch. Pictured here: Tobias Rivas, Long Nguyen, Lawrence Cao, Madeleine Schmitz, Codey Carr, Annelisa O’Neal, Gillan Chalono, Areli Villavicencio

Speakers and attendees having lunch (pt. 2). Pictured here: Ava Lasmanis, Demi Liu, Sabah Rainey, Nhat Tran

Rima Hussein and Fearghus Horan giving a workshop on how to apply to graduate school for philosophy.

Pictures were taken by Prometheus board members. Please contact prometheusjhu@gmail.com if your name is missing or if you have any questions.

Introduction to Prometheus

Prometheus is an undergraduate philosophy club and journal published by students at Johns Hopkins University.

The purpose of the journal is to promote philosophic discourse of the highest standard by offering students an opportunity to engage in open discussion, participate in the production and publication of an academic journal, and establish a community of aspiring philosophers.

Prometheus holds various undergraduate events, including a discussion forum that meets every other Tuesday in the fall to discuss philosophical issues that are not addressed in the classroom. In the spring, we host a seminar series in which we invite graduate students to deliver talks and lead discussion. Every April, Prometheus hosts the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, where undergraduates present on their own work.

Prometheus also publishes an online undergraduate philosophy journal every year. Each issue contains a selection of essays on various philosophic topics submitted by undergraduates from around the world. We accept submissions every winter and publish the journal in the summer.

Month: April 2022

New Prometheus President and Vice President!

2022 Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Photos