By Jim Gubbins
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

“What is a good life?”
Isn’t that a big, wonderful question? Isn’t that the question we should all be asking ourselves?
I strongly suspect that unless we have wandered into a philosophy class, we are not asking that question, nor will we find that question dominating the Blogosphere, Facebook, Twitter, or the [...]

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By Michael Mulnix
Philosophy Department

Michael Mulnix

One commonly held belief in the study of ethics takes moral claims to be somehow dependent upon social and individual circumstance, wherein the moral status of an action is a function of the environment in which it is carried out. The position of ‘moral particularism,’ however, uses this commonsense belief to [...]

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On March 17, Communications professors Robert Brown and Mark Zaitchik met at the invitation of the Salem State chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the Communications Honor Society, to discuss the very heart of their department’s business-the business of communications. Professor Brown brings the insights of a practitioner to the classroom. He has worked for a [...]

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