Tag Archives: Phenomenology

This Week:

10 Jan
  • Tue. 01/14/14, The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be examining Tom Sparrow’s “Bodies in Transit: The Plastic Subject of Alphonso Lingis”
  • Fri. 01/17/14, Dr. Bucur will be presenting “From Ipseity to Kenosis: Reflections on Ricoeur’s Itinerary to the Face-to-Face” at Duquesne’s Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center
    LINK: Bucur Lecture Promo 17 January 2014

This Week:

1 Oct
  • 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.

Phenomenology & Religion Reading Circle Kickoff

18 Sep

Tomorrow 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.

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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.