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.
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This Week:
7 MayThis 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:
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.
This Week:
25 Mar03/26 7:00pm
Duquesne University, Gumberg Library 1st Floor, Simon Silverman Center.
This week we will be kicking off the networks first official sponsored event. A discussion of Emmanuel Levinas’ “Ethics and Infinity” with respected Levinas scholar, Dr. Marie Baird of Duquesne University. This is a public event, intended to bring philosophical discourse out of the academy and into the community, so feel free to stop by. Texts, if you wish to prep for the event, can be found here or here; and refreshments will be served following the discussion. (Note: this event will substitute for both this weeks Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group, and Phenomenology and Religion Reading Circle).
This event has been co-sponsored by the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
Busy Week
19 Feb- “Narrative, Context, and Conversion: An Application o f Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Narrative to the New Catholic Evangelization in the Postconciliar United States” Ian Murphy, Dissertation Defense. February 20, 2013 at 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Duquesne University, Fischer Hall 619
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“Political and Subjective Freedom: Reading Hannah Arendt with Julia Kristeva”
Ulrika Björk (U of Uppsala) February 21, 2013 Duquesne University, College Hall 104
- Duquesne University Psychology Dept. Faculty Seminar February 21, 2013 Duquesne University, 310 Rockwell Hall
- Philosophy and Nature 7th Annual Duquesne University Graduate Conference in Philosophy February 22, 2013 Duquesne University
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 