The Philosophy Graduate Student Union at Villanova University is the mediating body for Graduate Student business and activities in the Philosophy Department. PGSU (affectionately known as "pig-soo") holds several meetings throughout the academic year, as well as sponsors the Philosophy in Progress series, the Invited Speakers Series, and an annual conference in the spring.

 2009-2010 Officers

• PGSU Co-Directors: Summer Renault-Steele and Alexander Kratchman
• PGSU Representative to the Faculty: Sarah Vitale
• Representative to the University-wide Graduate Student Council: TBD
• Philosophy in Progress (PIP) Series Director: John-Patrick Schultz

Invited Speakers Series

• 2008: Jay Lampert (University of Guelph)
• 2009: Elizabeth Grosz (Rutgers University)
• 2010: Leonard Lawlor (Penn State)
• 2011: Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University)

Philosophy in Progress

Philosophy in Progress is a series of working-idea colloquia designed to promote the ongoing work and intellectual community of the Villanova Philosophy Department, as well as provide a venue within our department for philosophical presentation and feedback.

• Jessie Dern
  Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pm - Villanova Philosophy lounge
  "Derrida's 'Reason': Deconstructive Politics"
• Clyde Dunton-Gallagher
  Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 3 pm - Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia
  "Adaptive Forgetting: Situated Recall and Sense Decay"

Professional Development

• www.erraticimpact.com - Mission Statement: We at Erratic Impact love philosophy. Thus, it is our goal to make the study of philosophy easy and enjoyable by combining the best online resources with the most extensive text resources available. We also love books! Thus, it is our goal to use the internet to promote new (as well as established) authors in philosophy and related fields. We want to help students and teachers find your work.
• http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/pmilne/links_html/journals.html - An outstanding resource for exploring a vast range of academic journals. The site is easy to navigate as journals are broken down both alphabetically and via subject area. Categories are also set up for electronic, yearly publications of philosophical gatherings, annual journals and student journals.
• http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/pmilne/journals_html/pol.html - An excellent resource for those particularly interested in political thought. This site contains over 55 links which take you directly to journals related to this area of study. It is valuable whether one wishes to explore research conducted in this area or whether one wishes to seek publishing opportunities.
• Notes from Dr. Livingston's Publishing Workshop - These notes open up in Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have Acrobat, you can get it for free here: