This Week:

27 May
  • 05/28, 6:00pm: The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be examining Critchley’s “Travels in Nihilon” from Very Little…Almost Nothing.

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:

14 May
  • 05/14, 6:00pm: The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be continuing its work with Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness from his Black Skin, White Masks.
  • 05/17-20: The Group for Human Research is offering a special intensive “Communication Laboratory” this weekend. 

    Sixteen hours of an experimental, experiential, fun laboratory, broken into four blocks–Friday evening (may 17), two day-blocks on Saturday (may 18), and Sunday afternoon (may 19)

This Week:

7 May

Sorry for the late notice…

  • 05/07, 7:00pm: The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness” from his Black Skin, White masks. 

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”.

This Week:

8 Apr
  • 04/09, 7:00pm. The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group is reading selections from Soren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript.
  • 04/10, 4:30pm. The Phenomenology & Religion Reading Circle is reading a selection from Jean-Yves Lacoste’s Experience and the Absolute.
  • 04/12, 2:00pm. The Point Park University Honors Student Organization and Global Solutions Pittsburgh are hosting the “Storytelling and Human Rights Symposium.”
  • 04/12, 3:00pm. The Duquesne Philosophy Department is hosting Jonathan Leer, who will be presenting a lecture entitled, “Wisdom Won from Illness: the Psychoanalytic Grasp of Human Being.”

This Week:

2 Apr
  • 04/02, 7:00pm. The Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be examining Feyerabend’s Third Dialogue.
  • 04/03, 4:30pm. The Phenomenology & Religion Reading Circle will be reading a selection from Jean-Yves Lacoste’s Experience and the Absolute.
  • 04/05-04/07. Perception, Models, and Learning: Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.

Updates:

28 Mar

PghCPN would love to thank Dr. Baird and all of the lecture attendees for making our first public lecture a resounding success!