Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

Tomorrow we will be kicking off our reading group with the postscript to Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions. As always, the text is available as a Pdf HERE.

We will be meeting at 7:00pm at Tender Bar + Kitchen, in Lawrenceville (4300 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201).

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What is Scientific Research?:

• 6/29: Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Postscript
• 7/6: Feyerhadbend, Against Method, Part 1-4
• 7/13: Latour, Pandora’s Hope, Chapter 5

Philosophy and Physics:

• 7/20: Koyre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, Chapter 2
• 7/27: Meillassoux, After Finitude, Chapter 1

Philosophy and Mathematics:

• 8/3: Lakatos, Mathematics, Science, and Epistemology, Chapter 1 and 4
• 8/10: Badiou, Being and Event, Chapter 26

Philosophy and Biology:

• 8/17: Canguilhem, A Vital Rationalist: Chapter 14
• 8/24: Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: “Rhizome”

Philosophy and Neuroscience:

• 8/31: Malabou, What Should We Do With our Brain, Chapter 3
• 9/7: Brassier, Nihil Unbound, Chapter 1
• 9/14: Mark Solms, Brain and the Inner World, excerpt tbd

Free Pdfs available HERE!!!

Stay tuned for more information, including pdf links, soon!

This week the reading group will be taking a look at the first half (roughly pp. 195-219) of Slavoj Žižek’s “Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today?” Here Žižek will attempt to deconstruct the traditional reading of Hegel, countering with a reading that emphasizes the materialism, contingency, and retroactivity at the heart of Hegel’s project. Ever wonder if you could change the past? Come on over tomorrow night, and you will find out that you can! (no time machine necessary)

As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet or if you missed a few meetings, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.

download pdfs: HERE

When/where: 8:00pm, Tinder Bar + Kitchen, Lawrenceville

First: after last week’s slog through an unexpectedly long Derrida text (my bad), we will take it a little lighter this week with a chapter out of Malabou’s The Future of Hegel, and ask: can sublation (Aufhebung) itself be plastic? In other words — and to return to the question that has haunted this entire spring — is there room for continegency in Hegel’s philosophy, or is Hegel’s thought truly the violent, dominating force that he is often said to be?

As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.

download pdfs: HERE

Second: this wednesday is the last day to send in abstracts or papers for the 2015 meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences which is meeting in Atlanta. I’ll be there, you should be there too!

Third: This Friday, C.D.C. Reeve of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will be giving a lecture at Duquesne University as part of the philosophy department’s speaker series.

Plastic Hegel… get it.

Greetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. We are now full steam ahead into continental philosophy’s reappropriation of Hegel, and will tonight be looking at Derrida’s preface to Catherine Malabou’s The Future of Hegel.

As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.

download pdfs: HERE

Greetings readers! This week we will be meeting, once again, at Tender at 8:00pm. Having spent the last month getting an introduction to Hegel and his French interpretation, we are now ready to jump into the continental appropriation of his work over the last few decades. First up, Judith Butler!

As a reminder, there is no expectation that one attend every meeting. If you havent been able to stop in yet, feel perfectly free to stop by tonight.

download pdfs: HERE