- 02/11 – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be reading Catherine Malabou’s “Of the Impossibility of Fleeing — Plasticity.”
- 02/14-15 – The 32nd Annual Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center Symposium, “Phenomenology in the African & Africana Worlds.”.
Tag Archives: Philosophy
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9 FebThis Week:
19 Jan- 01/21 – This week the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be tackling Levinas’ “Existence Without a World”
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:
20 Oct- 10/20, 10:30pm – The Online Deleuze Reading Group will be discussing the first have of Difference and Repetition chapter 4.
- 10/22, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be reading Michel Foucault’s “Discourse on Language.”
- 10/22, 7:30pm – Dr. Jon Levenson will be presenting “Abraham and the Absoluteness of God” at Duquesne University.
- 10/23, 4:00pm – The Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle will be reading Derrida’s Given Time, chapter 3.
Phenomenology & 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.
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:
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)

