This is the archive of Sátya, formerly Eudaimonia—the official Philosophy Journal of Smith College. The journal is student-led and peer-reviewed. The ethos of Sátya is to reflect Smith College’s philosophy department which is multidisciplinary and multicultural. The purpose of Sátya is to promote philosophical discourse and thought. Sátya is dedicated to providing its readers with quality works that make philosophy accessible to a wide audience. Undergraduates from all institutions are invited to submit their work for review. Sátya welcomes essays, artworks, philosophical interviews, and book reviews.
Sátya is a Sanskrit word that loosely means the ethical concept and virtue of truth. Sátya became the namesake of this journal to pay homage to the unique Philosophy department at Smith College, which is committed to teaching cross-cultural philosophy. Additionally, through the philosophical dialogue and community this journal fosters, Sátya offers boundless truths and essences, prompting our readers to question and probe the world around them.
We invite you to read, ponder, and, hopefully, enjoy.
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Issue IV: Sátya
Moby Yang, Patrick Van Hoven, Sofie Robinson, Emma Cohler, Konstandina Deleidi, and Teneil Reddy
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Issue III: Sátya
Devin Hecht, Sofia Farinas, Sherry Li, Breeze Hong, Abby Murphy, Alex McIntosh, and Caitlyn Brabo
For the fall 2024 edition of Sátya, we have chosen seven submissions from students across the Five Colleges whose writing we felt best embodied the aims of our journal—to focus on interdisciplinary works which push the boundaries of philosophy. Not only did these students produce impressive logical arguments and concise reconstructions, but each and every paper that we chose was distinguished in its accomplishment of producing work that is both original and creative in its aims. Our hope is to create a space for innovative work to be upheld; to create a dialogue that interrogates commonly held conceptions of what constitutes philosophy and philosophical work. Among the chosen submissions, we have included a wide array of topics, ranging from exploring the concept of “No-Self” in Mahāyana Buddhism and Daoism, to exploring conceptions of happiness through Mill’s Utilitarianism.
~ Excerpt from Editor’s Introduction
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Issue 2: Sátya
Michela Rawson, Joe Sweeney, Harry Honig, Hebe Guo, Abby Murphy, Clara Kim, Ilan Liebmann, and Laila Al Ghandi
The Smith College Philosophy Journal, formerly Eudaimonia, was founded in the Fall of 2019 by You Jeen Ha. Due to the coronavirus, publication was suspended, and the original members of the Journal have since graduated. Finally, in Fall 2023, we are reviving the Journal under a new name, Sátya–a Sanskrit word meaning truth. We feel Sátya is representative of our cross-cultural approach to philosophy at Smith.
This edition of Sàtya is made up of the essays presented by students at Smith’s inaugural Five College Philosophy Conference in the Spring of 2023. The selection pool was full of quality submissions from the five colleges, and these papers were chosen for their creativity and depth of philosophical inquiry. The first volume of Sátya features topics in bioethics and technology, ethics and society, morality and aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. We hope to continue this tradition of hosting a philosophy conference for the surrounding colleges and publishing their papers in the Fall.
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Volume 1: Eudaimonia
Dana Chen, Shailee Shah, Aleksandr Smirnov, and Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen
PSYCHE Eudaimonia at Smith College seeks to encourage human flourishing among undergraduate students by opening them to the pursuit of wisdom that is strongly encouraged by Smith’s liberal art curriculum. Moreover, since today’s various disciplines originated from the study of “philosophy”, Smith’s philosophy department seeks to bring together the different disciplines into unique synergies.