{"id":263,"date":"2025-03-27T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prometheus.students.jh.edu\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:14:16","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prometheus.students.jh.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">About Us<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Prometheus<\/em>&nbsp;is an undergraduate philosophy club and journal published by undergraduate students at Johns Hopkins University. Every April, Prometheus hosts the Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, where undergraduates present on their own work. <em>Prometheus<\/em>&nbsp;also publishes an online undergraduate philosophy journal every year.&nbsp; Each issue contains a selection of essays on various philosophic topics submitted by undergraduates from around the world selected by the club.&nbsp;We accept submissions every winter and publish the journal in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background has-text-align-center has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/prometheus.students.jh.edu\/?page_id=294\" style=\"border-radius:67px;background-color:#b8843c;font-size:16px\">Read our most recent edition here!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size\">Join Us in Prometheus At Hopkins<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><br>If you are a Hopkins student and love philosophy, get involved with Prometheus by joining our undergraduate society! Prometheus, in addition to being our undergraduate philosophy club and journal, is also a one-credit class that can be taken in the philosophy department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">The class is open to anyone who is interested in philosophy and has taken a philosophy class before. It is a great way to&nbsp;engage with students of the same interest and get to know the philosophy department at Hopkins better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Submit Your Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit our submissions portal to find guidelines to submit your own research to the journal for publication. We accept papers written on a wide variety of philosophical subjects. 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