Tonight: Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy

15 Sep

This fall, the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group explores the conditions of possibility, in TRANSCENDENTAL. From Kant’s forms of time and space, through Husserl’s transcendental Ego, to Deleuze’s plane of immanence, and beyond.

Up Next: 09/15 – Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 1+2

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Please bring a copy (digital or paper) copy of the reading with you to the meeting.

Location: Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 7:00-8:30pm.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:

  • 09/15 – Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 1+2
  • 09/22 – Kant, Immanuel. The Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction Part 1+2, Transcendental Aesthetic, and Transcendental Deduction, Sections 16-18.
  • 09/29 – Fichte, J. G. Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge, Part 1.
  • 10/06 – Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit, “Absolute Spirit.”
  • 10/13 – Natorp, Paul. “Kant and the Marburg School”
  • 10/20 – Husserl, Edmund. Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Chapter 2.
  • 10/27 – Heidegger, Martin. Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Section 25.
  • 11/03 – Jaspers, Karl. “The Encompassing.”
  • 11/10 – Sartre, Jean-Paul. The Transcendence of the Ego.
  • 11/17 – Levinas, Emmanuel. The I and the Totality.
  • 12/01 – Deleuze, Gilles. Kant’s Critical Philosophy, Introduction + Chapter 1; Immanence a Life.
  • 12/08 – Henry, Michel. The Critique of the Subject.
  • 12/15 – Rorty, Richard. “Is Derrida a Transcendental Philosopher?”
  • 01/05 – Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman, Part III.
  • 01/12 – Marion, Jean-Luc. Reduction and Givenness, Chapter 3.
  • 01/19 – Meillassoux, Quentin. After Finitude, Chapter 1.
  • 01/26 – Malabou, Catherine. Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality, Chapter 13.
  • 02/02 – Meagher, Thomas. “The Decolonial Reduction and the Transcendental-Phenomenological Reduction.”
  • 02/09 – Heinämaa, Sara. “Architectonics of a Method: On the Relations Between Husserlian Phenomenology and Its Feminist and Critical Successors.”

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