- 10/01, The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network will be continuing its trek through Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible, with a discussion on the “Chiasm.”
- 10/02, The Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle will be prefacing its discussion of the phenomenology of the gift, with a look at Marcel Mass’ “The Gift.”
- 10/6, The Online Deleuze Discussion Group will be continuing through Difference and Repetition, Chapter 3.
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This Week:
1 OctPhenomenology & Religion Reading Circle Kickoff
18 SepTomorrow marks the beginning of the Phenomenology & Religion reading group. This fall we will be examining the debate surrounding the “gift,” particularly in the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion. We will be meeting at 619 Fisher Hall at Duquesne, at 4:oo on Wednesdays. Hope to see you there!
More information and PDF’s can be found here.
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group Returns: Tues 8/27, 6-8PM
22 Aug
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group returns on Tuesday, August 27th from 6-8PM @ East End Book Exchange (4754 Liberty Ave in Bloomfield). We will be reading Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s text “The Visible and the Invisible” and will be discussing the chapter entitled “Reflection and Interrogation” on the 27th. You can download all readings at pghcprg.com.
Deleuze Reading Group Tonight!
19 AugWe will be kicking off the Deleuze Difference and Repetition reading group in just over an hour! Beginning tonight with the introduction to this difficult text. See you there! [Link]
This Week:
29 Jul- 7/29-7/31: The Internation Levinas Society, will be meeting all week at Duquesne University, offering an exciting program of speakers and panels.
This Week:
20 May- 5/21, 6:00, The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be continuing its discussion of Stirner’s “Stirner’s Critics.”
This Week:
29 Apr- 04/29-05/01, The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center 31st Annual Symposium “Merleau-Ponty Into the Future.” Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University. Featuring: Galen Johnson (University of Rhode Island), Gail Weiss (The George Washington University), Laura Doyle (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), and David Abram (The Alliance for Wild Ethics)
- 04/30, 6:00pm. The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be continuing its study of Merleau-Ponty’s “Primacy of Perception”.
This Week:
22 Apr- 04/22 7:00pm, the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Merleau-Ponty’s “The Primacy of Perception”.
- 04/23 4:30pm, the Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle will be discussing Paul Riceour’s “Philosophy and Religious Language”
- 04/27 12:00pm, David Abram will be presenting “Wild Ethics: On Being Human in a More-than Human World”. Duquesne Library, Simon Silverman Center.
This Week:
15 Apr- 04/16, 7:00pm: the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Discussion Group will be continuing its discussion of selections from Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript.
- 04/17, 4:30pm: the Phenomenology & Religion Reading Circle will be examining Paul Riceour’s Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.
- 04/17, 5:00pm: the Duquesne Psychology Department is offering a Philosophical Psychology Symposium “Conversations with Martin Buber and Hans-Georg Gadamer.”
- 04/20-04/22: the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh is presenting a conference entitled “Choosing the Future of Science: The Social Organization of Scientific Inquiry”.
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 