The AIPCT is pleased to announce its 5th annual Institute Lecture. The lecture is now available here. This year’s speaker is Crispin Sartwell, Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College. His Lecture is “Why Philosophy Tried to Commit Suicide in the 20th Century (and a Bit about Why It Failed)” The…
AIPCT is pleased to make available the 2020 Lewis E. Hahn Lectures and the William S. Minor Lecture on our YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the channel (it’s free) so that you can be informed of future updates. Here is the link.
Fall Reading Group The AIPCT is pleased to announce that our fall reading group will be the classic works by Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory. The group will gather by Zoom at 7:00 PM on Wednesday evenings and go until 9 PM, USA central time.…
The event has been delayed this year due to the pandemic, and also will take place virtually for that reason. To attend virtually, send an rsvp to: personalist61@gmail.com. You will receive a link just prior to the start of the day’s events, which begins at 11 AM central time (USA).…
Illinois has a very generous credit for those who install solar. Thanks to our friends at Advanced Energy Solutions for helping us through a complicated process and installation. AIPCT is now Solar!
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a summer reading group. We will study Gloria Anzaldúa‘s masterpiece, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was among the pioneers of a post-colonial writing style that combines autobiography, poetry, social commentary, folklore and storytelling, multi-lingual and cross-lingual intersection, ethnography, and the essay.…
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects All of the presentations are now available here. The AIPCT is pleased to announce the annual Spring Conference on Creativity. The theme of this year’s conference is an exploration of how objects we don’t normally think of as “persons” take on personality, or may…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a lecture free and open to the public, “A New Genealogy of Neoliberalism: History and Pertinence of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate,” January 28, 7:30 PM, by Professor Barbara Stiegler. The lecture may be watched here. Where does this sneaking, yet ever more oppressive and widely…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce its winter-spring reading group covering Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This reading group will be handled much more like a graduate seminar than our past reading groups have been. The text is very difficult –among the most difficult books in philosophy ever written.…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a seminar, free and open to the public: “‘We Are Witnessing the Birth of a Nation’: John Dewey and Benedict Anderson” Liu Xing, Thursday, January 16, 2020, 7:00 PM. The seminar may be watched here. Liu Xing is Lecturer at Beijing Normal University, in…
