ANNOUNCEMENTS
On Friday, April 25 the CSUDH Philosophy Club hosted "A Philosophical Roundtable" in the Innovation and Instruction building. A great time was had by all. The following students presented papers, followed by lively discussion.
Ekaterina Vorozhtcova: “Salvation or Neurosis”
Noah Covarrubias: “A Powerpoint Concerning Human Understanding”
Jakobi Ewart: “Cui Bono: An Inquiry into Applied Ethics in Government”
Victor Oguekwe: “According to Nature: An Investigation into Stoic Ethics”
Victor Dominguez: “The Economics of Suffering”
Congratulations to the presenters, and to the Philosophy Club for organizing this event!
- Dr. Robert Jones is giving a talk for the Philosophy Club this Tuesday, based on his chapter “Foodie Culture: A Celebration of Violence“, in The Humane Hoax, https://lanternpm.org/book/the-humane-hoax/.
- Jung Kwon is presenting her paper "Central and Impersonal Imagination in Narrative Engagement" at the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific division meeting (Berkeley, CA) on March 7, 2025.
Congrats to Philosophy Alumni, Mayor Rex Richardson

The CSUDH Philosophy Department would like to congratulate our distinguished alumnus, Rex Richardson, on his recent election as the 29th Mayor of Long Beach! Visit the City of Long Beach's website to learn more about Mayor Richardson
News
- Dr. Robert Jones recently had a chapter published with John Sanbonmatsu, "Veganism and Capitalism," in The Plant-based and Vegan Handbook, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63083-5_7.
- Dana S. Belu presented the keynote paper "The New Adam: A Heideggerian Look at Reproduction in the Present Age" at the Disentangling Heidegger on Technology Retreat, Laives, Italy, June 16-23rd, 2024; organizers Mark Wrathall and Jonathan Krude, Oxford University.
- Brian Gregor published a pair of essays, “Toward an Ontology of Peace I: Ricoeur on Peace and Violence in the Ontology of Creation,” and “Toward an Ontology of Peace II: Ricoeur on the Heart of Conflict and Thumotic Peace” in a special issue of the journal Approaching Religion. Peace and Understanding: A Ricœurian Perspective. Vol. 14 No. 3 (2024).
- Jung Kwon's monograph Death and the Aesthetic Sublime: A Comparative Study is forthcoming in early 2025. (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Dr. Robert Jones has an ongoing podcast with two other philosophers called "No Podcast for Old Men" in which they analyze the films of the Coen brothers. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2276422.
- Brian Gregor presented “Ricoeur and Feuerbach on the Religious Imagination: Twelve Theses” at the Society for Ricoeur Studies Annual Conference on October 27, 2024.
- Jung Kwon's article "Study on Burke's Sublime: From Contemplation to Engagement" was published in Korean in the anthology Philosophy & Reality (21st Century Books) in August 2024.
- Brian Gregor delivered a keynote address, “Peace and Violence in the Ontology of Creation,” at “Peace and Understanding: A Ricoeurian View,” a Ricoeur workshop at Abo Akademi in Turku, Finland, September 15, 2023.
- Dr. Robert Jones is giving a talk for the Philosophy Club this Tuesday, based on his chapter “Foodie Culture: A Celebration of Violence“, in The Humane Hoax, https://lanternpm.org/book/the-humane-hoax/.
- Brian Gregor presented “Free Speech, Virtue, and the Idea of the University” at the CSUDH Teach-In: Tools for Discord and Discourse on September 18, 2024.
- Jung Kwon presented her paper "A Study of Aesthetic Contemplation through Sublime Sympathy" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain division, on July 12, 2024.
- Brian Gregor presented “C.S. Lewis and Post-Christian Paganism” at The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference at George Fox University on September 8, 2024.
- Lissa McCullough was a keynote speaker for the online conference “Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on Individual Action in Dark Times,” organized at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, April 15–17, 2021. Arendtweil Conference 2021
- Dr. Jung Kwon published her anthology Compassionate Socrates: Wisdom across the Cultures and Disciplines
- Brian Gregor published “Becoming Psyche: The Stoic Way and the Platonic Way in Till We Have Faces.” Journal of Inklings Studies 14.1 (2024): 1-24.
- Telos: The Journal of Philosophy at CSUDH Spring 2018 Vol. 4
- Telos: The Journal of Philosophy at CSUDH Spring 2016 Vol.3
- Telos: The Journal of Philosophy at CSUDH Spring 2015 Vol. 2
- Inaugural Journal Telos: The Student Journal of Philosophy at CSU Dominguez Hills, Volume 1, Spring 2014.
- Philosophy Club
- The American Philosophical Association (APA)
- The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
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