Workshops 2017

Philosophy departments at the following universities hosted Compass Workshops in 2016-2017: 

•  Princeton University (organized by Claudia Yau)
• University of North Carolina
  at Chapel Hill (organized by Lauren Townsend)
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (more info available here!)​

Princeton 2017

Princeton's 2017 Compass workshop took place at Princeton University from February 10th through the 12th. The workshop featured a discussion session on the first night on presenting and facilitating seminars and six discussion sessions over the course of the two remaining days, led by undergraduate students, on papers in a variety of sub-disciplines within philosophy. The readings that were selected for discussion this year are listed below.

In addition to discussion sessions, the workshop featured two advice sessions with female faculty mentors on the following topics: “Thinking about Graduate School?” and “How to Get the Most Out of Your Academic Experience”. 

2017 Readings

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Sally Haslanger: “What Are We Talking About? The Politics and Semantics of Social Kinds”
Sarah McGrath: “Causation by Omission”
Elisabeth Camp: “Metaphor and That Certain ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’”
Susan Wolf: “Moral Saints”
Christine Korsgaard: “Skepticism About Practical Reason”
Elizabeth Barnes: The Minority Body, Ch. 4

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