Philosophy Magazine: Symphony of Reason

Produced each semester, the Symphony of Reason philosophy magazine includes essays, student papers, book review, translation and poetry. Its purpose is to encourage philosophical reflection and creativity in PNW students.

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Fall 2022: Volume III, Issue 2

In this sixth issue, like its predecessors, the current issue of Symphony of Reason, Purdue University Northwest’s philosophy magazine, offers its readers a great variety of thought-provoking writings. Prose and poetry, East and West, philosophy, religion, law, and love – all of these may be found here!

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Spring 2022: Volume III, Issue 1

Three current, ongoing crises – the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the raging battle over abortion set off by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the escalating threat of environmental catastrophe – are all addressed illuminatingly in these pages from a philosophical perspective.

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Fall 2021: Volume II, Issue 2

In this fourth issue, student contributors put together works analyzing morality of racism and vegetarianism, they also look at the appreciation of nature and the higher self. Additionally, students look at the works of Plato and St. Augustine and faculty contributors explore the works of John Locke and reflect on “Things.”

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Spring 2021: Volume II, Issue 1

In this ​third issue, we have ​seven authentic student voices reflecting on a range of authors (Plato, Descartes, Epictetus, etc.) and topics (truth, historiography, etc.).

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Fall 2020: Volume I, Issue 2

In this second issue, we have ​authentic student voices reflecting on the value of philosophy and the twin pandemics.

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Spring 2020: Volume I, Issue 1

In the first issue, we have essay work, student papers, a book review, translation, poetry, and experiential papers where “students imagine themselves as the released prisoner” in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

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