The Philosopher's Stone is a student-produced philosophical discussion newsletter. In Fall quarter of 1995, several students interested in discussing Philosophy began to meet as a conversation group. On October 29, 1996, the Philosophical Discussion Group (PDG) was recognized as an official student organization of Armstrong State University by the Student Activities Committee. The PDG provides an informal atmosphere for Armstrong students, faculty and staff, and their guests, to discuss philosophical issues, gain knowledge and insight into those issues through examination of theories, ideas, texts, the world and oneself. The Philosopher’s Stone newsletter announces the themes of the PDG and archives the conversations of that group.
Submissions from 2024
War is Father of All and King of All- Heraclitus of Ephesus: The Philosophical Discussion Group wonders about war, Philosopher's Discussion Group
What is Love? On Love, Lust, and Limerence, Philosopher's Discussion Group
What is the vita activa –the active life– in a world of labor, work, and screens?, Philosopher's Discussion Group
Transcendence, A.I. & Hybrid Humans, The Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2023
Do Animals Deserve Moral Consideration?, Philosopher's Discussion Group
How Can A Divided Self Be The Same Person: Who is The Real Me?, Philosopher's Discussion Group
What is Evil?, Philosopher's Discussion Group
Who is Responsible for the Negative Consequences of Technology?, Philosopher's Discussion Group
Education as a Way of Life, Philosophical Discussion Group
Navigating Trauma: Philosophy as Therapy, Philosophical Discussion Group
Why Do the Right Thing?, Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2022
Does Love Cause More Agony Than It’s Worth? The Valentine's Day Edition., Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2021
Is Disgust Making a Comeback?, Philosophical Discussion Group
Memory Isn’t What It Used to Be, Philosophical Discussion Group
The Plague: What is beyond willful ignorance?, Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2020
How Do You Know Which Assumptions In Life To Question?, Philosophical Discussion Group
The West’s World-Problem: Screen Mediated Morality, Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2019
"Hell is other people.”, Philosophical Discussion Group
Interspecies Equality, Philosophical Discussion Group
You’ve Never Read Aristotle And Probably Never Will, Philosophical Discussion Group
Submissions from 2018
Ethics of Cannibalism, Philosophical Discussion Group
On Relationships: Between Love, Justice, Religion & Philosophy, Philosophical Discussion Group
Pompous Asshattery?, Philosophical Discussion Group
What’s in the Box?, Philosophical Discussion Group
On Relationships: Between Love, Justice, Religion & Philosophy, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Pompous Asshattery?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Ethics of Cannibalism, Philosophical Discussion Group, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus
What’s in the Box?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus
Submissions from 2017
Fear, Arrogance and Being, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
In a Consolidated World of Alternative Facts Do You Experience The Dilemma of Values?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone VS. The Self, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Subjective Truth, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2016
A Political Allegory, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Celebrating 20 Years of ASU’s The Philosopher's Stone, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Would you like some ideology with those Fries?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2015
Aesthetics, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
DE-CON-STRUCT-ING ART, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Is intimacy sex, or is sex intimacy?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
What is Justice?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2014
Immortality through Legacy, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Perfection, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Philosophy of Time Eternalism vs. Presentism, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Pursuits of the Human Condition, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Technological Boredom, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Freedom Dialectic: A Dialogue, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2011
The New Leviathan Part 2: Theological and Secular Repsonses, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2010
The New Leviathan Part 1: The Rise of the cogs, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2009
Should Race, Gender, Culture and Disability Define Human Identity?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Watch without a Watchmaker: Philosophical Questions of Non-Believing, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2008
Hobbies, Alienation, & Identity Revision, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Meditations On Fallibility, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2007
In Defense of Boredom, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Should Economics Determine Our Personal Identities?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2006
Are Your Beliefs Meaningful or Arbitrary?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Bleeding the Vat, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2005
Chance Universe, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Evil! “Thy Fearful Symmetry”, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
In Honor of Nothing, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Nihilism and Defiant Grass, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Veracity of Relative Truth, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Truth and Love: Fragmented in Thoughts, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2004
Can Metaphysical Concepts be Concrete? Support for the Certainty of Select Fundamental Metaphysical Concepts, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Meaning, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
News, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Optimism, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Psychosis, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Tangible Consequences of an Intangible Time, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Technology: The Modern Messiah, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2003
A Letter To My Faculty Advisor, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
On the Death of Reading, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Philosophy for the Rest of Us, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Epistemological Egg, or the Metaphysical Chicken?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The First Honors Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Turning: Conversion, Choice, or Chance?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
What Can Science Tell Us?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2002
American Wound Culture, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Higher Education: Practically Useful or Existentially Meaningful?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
On Freedom, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
What do you mean?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2001
A Modern Deity, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Atheism: Is it Rational and Livable?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Mathematics and Philosophy, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
On Animal Rights from the GSU Philosophy Club, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 2000
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Eternal Return of the Same, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Ultimate Bull’s Eye: Considering the Rational Search for Happiness, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 1999
Bioethics and the New Frontier of Science, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Language Trap, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Media and Ethics: The Shaping of our Ideas, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Our Ongoing Education, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Philosophy and Fetal Tissue Research, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Submissions from 1998
“Inherent Value.” Is There Such a Thing?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
It Somehow Seeps Into Our Consciousness. . ., Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Money Talks, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Philosophy & Gender, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
The Philosopher's Stone, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
What is the Difference Between Fact and Truth?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
What of Death?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
Who Are You?, Philosophical Discussion Group, Armstrong State University
