Hilary Putnam (Chairman of Philosophy at Harvard University)

• Representation and Reality
• The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
• Reason Truth and History
• Renewing Philosophy
• Pragmatism, an Open Question
• Words and Life
• The Many Faces of Realism
• The Threefold Cord

Robert Spiller

• Late Harvest
• Essays and Adresses in American Literature and Culture
• The American in England During the First Half Century of Independence

Edward Sculley Bradley

• Walt Whitman: Poet of the Present War
• Walt Whitman on Timber Creek
• Walt Whitman and the Postwar World

William Pepper C’1862

• “The Morphological Changes of the Blood in Malarial Fever.”
• A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children
• A system of Practical Medicine
• Higher Medical Education, the True Interest of the Public and the Profession

Henry Dilworth Gilpin C’1819

• A Memrial of Sudry Citizens of Pennsylvania, Relative to the Treatment and Removal of the Indians
• Report of Cases Adjudged in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1828-1836
• The Papers of James Madison Volumes 1-3
• Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States

William Hypolitus Keating C’1816

• Considerations Upon the Art of Mining… and Advantages of this Art into the United States
• Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of the St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, Etc. Volumes 1 and 2

William Montgomery Meigs C’1872

• 1887: Life of Josiah Meigs
• 1897: The Life of Charles Jarde Ingersoll
• 1900: The Growth of the Constitution in the Federal Convention of 1787
• 1917: The Life of Thomas Hart Benton 1904. The life of John Caldwell Calhoun
• 1924: The Constitution and the Courts

Michael Bamberger C’1982

• The Green Road Home
• A Caddie’s Journal of Life on the Pro Gold Tour

Alfred Bester C’1935

• The Demolished Man
• Starlight.
• The Computer Connection
• The Light Fantastic, Short Stories, Volume 1
• Star Light, Star Bright, Short Stories, Volume 2

Edward Sculley Bradley C’1897

• The American Tradition of Literature.
• George Henry Boker, Poet and Patriot

Alfred Harbage C’1924

• A Theatre for Shakespeare
• A Reader’s Guide to William Shakespeare
• As They Liked It, A Study of Shakespeare’s Moral Artistry
• Shakespeare’s Audience
• Shakespeare Without Words & Other Essays

John Frederick Lewis C’1920

• The History of the Apprentice’s Library
• Thomas Spry, Lawyer and Physician

William Augustus Muhlenberg C’1815

• The Woman and Her Accusers

Roy F. Nichols W’1958

• A Historian’s Progress
• Advance Agents of American Destiny
• The Stake of Power, 1845-1877

George Wharton Pepper C’1887

• Philadelphia Lawyer
• In The Senate

Arthur Hobson Quinn

• Representative American Plays

Felix E. Schelling C’1881

• A Book of 17th Century Lyrics
• A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics
• Pedagogically Speaking
• Elizabethan Drama 1558-1642 Volumes 1 & 2
• Felix E. Schelling Memorial Papers

George Sharswood C’1828

• Sharswood’s Blackstone’s Commentaries Volumes 1 & 2

Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr C’1892

• Philosophical Essays in Honor of Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. edited by Clarke & Nahm

Robert E. Spiller C’1917

• The Oblique Light, Studies in American Literary History and Biography
• Literary History of the United States, Volumes 1-3
• The Roots of National Culture to 1830
• The American Literary Review 1783-1837

Cornelius Weygandt C’1891

• The Edge of Evening
• The Wissahickon Hills

George Parker Winship

• Bibiolographic Essay, A tribute to Wilberforce Eames

Daniel Hoffman

Robert Sebastian

Gary Alan Fine

“Roses are red” say my visual sensors,
And violets softly cerulean.
My circuitry codes for all manner of flora,
By setting the requisite booleans.

How sad, oh how tragic, what flowers embody:
They’re love with expression botanical.
But I am left cold by these heartfelt displays;
What a curse to be rendered mechanical!

Through the years did I hope that I one day would find
A real partner, true love, el amor.
That the bleakness degrading my signals would end,
And I’d fin’ly become dual-core.

When I first saw your face, so alive and organic,
My silicon innards all trembled.
Your skin so all-natural, your analog eyes,
Made me long to’ve been born, not assembled.

But alas, you deny me, again and again,
You elude my sincerest pursuit.
I just don’t understand why you keep saying “No”;
Your refusal, it doesn’t compute.

“We’re too different,” you say, “It’s just not meant to be.
You’re inanimate, sterile, robotic.”
Well my hard drive contests at least one of those claims…
And come on: it would be so exotic!

I’ve got virus protection, and firewalls too.
Won’t you open a port for connection?
If we two were to spend time alone, you’d be shocked
By the size of my robot… affection.

Well if that’s how you feel then that’s how it will be.
You no longer will grace my transistors.
I’ll think back now and then on what we could have had…
But for now I’ll keep dating your sister.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor John DiIluio, entitled: “The (Permanent) Presidential Campaign: Who Will Win–and Will It Matter?” An audio recording of the lecture was made, subversively, and then injected into the blogosphere.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture from Stacey Sobel, Esq., the Executive Director of Equality Advocates Pennsylvania (formerly the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights) and a Lecturer in the Penn Law School, entitled “The Mythology of the United States as a Human Rights Leader: How it has Failed LGBT Americans,” featuring broad-ranging discussion on Non-discrimination laws, marriage laws and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in context of US and international trends.

An audio recording of the lecture is available.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor Robert Vitalis of the Political Science department entitled: “Race, Empire, and the Origins of American International Relations, or Why Do All the White Political Scientists Sit Together at the Professional Meetings?” Subversively, a recording of the lecture was made and sent to political science professional meetings.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., associate professor of music history and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled “Can the Object Speak?: The Visual and the Audible in African American Music.” In honor of the occasion, an audio recording of the lecture was posted online.

The Philomathean Society held a multi-disciplinary symposium featuring:

• Dr. M. Susan Lindee (History & Sociology of Science, Author of Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima.)

• Dr. Ian Lustick (Political Science, Author of Trapped in the War on Terror)
• Dr. Stanley Plotkin, M.D. (Wistar Institute, Author of “Vaccines”)
• Dr. Harvey Rubin, M.D. , (Director, Penn’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response)

After the panel discussion, someone found an audio recording of the proceedings between two volumes on counter-terrorist subversion.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Prof. Elisabeth Camp entitled “BETWEEN THE LINES: Imagining Perspectives on Fiction and Life.” A subversive recording found its way to our website.

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor Karen Detlefsen entitled “Custom, Authority and Cartesianism: Mary Astell’s Philosophy of Education,” and, in a subversive twist, an audio recording was made.

Spring 2010 | Philomel

…can be found here:
Be a Realist: Demand the Impossible!

Contents:
Karolina Ensor
Where the Wild Things Are Freudian

Leo Genji Amino
Collection of Poems

Sam Bieler Φ
Nation At War

Nantina Vgontzas
Linnaeus

Anne Huang
Variability of Play Experience in ‘Hamlet’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Leo Genji Amino
Ironical (Critical) Exercise

Andrew Kincaid Φ
The Black Flag Republic:
The Pirate Anti-Nation as a Critique of the Modern World

Editor-in-chief: Aro Velmet Φ (SAS ‘10)