The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce the second annual William S. Minor Lecture. Dr. Gioia Laura Iannilli, recipient of the 2019 William S. Minor Dissertation Fellowship, will present her research under the title “‘Experience Design’ and Creativity: Starting from John Dewey’s Conception of Substance…
7:00 PM: Kenneth W. Stikkers, “Rethinking Economics as Moral Philosophy.” Professor Stikkers presents the fifth Lewis Hahn Memorial Lecture at AIPCT in Murphysboro on July 27, 2019, at 7:00 PM. The lecture is sponsored by the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and its affiliated Societies for the Philosophy of…
The AIPCT is pleased to join our fellow organizations and a number of our Fellows in holding International Philosophy of Culture Week. All events are in Warsaw, but it may be possible post these events later as recordings (they will be in the middle of the night in Illinois). IPoC…
The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce “The Town that Music Saved,” a presentation and concert in the AIPCT Music and Culture series. Beginning from a grant by the Vermont Arts Council, Dana and Susan Robinson collected stories and composed songs depicting the relation of…
“Common Ideals shared by Eastern Orthodoxy and Erich Fromm’s Humanism” The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce a public seminar on Eastern Orthodox religion and humanistic psychology. The seminar will be April 8, 2019, at the AIPCT, 411 N. 9th Street, Murphysboro, IL. The event…
The seminar can be viewed on our YouTube channel here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeyj42EbHQ&t=28s The AIPCT is pleased to announce a seminar by Roberta Dreon, “Looking at Human Sensibility by Pragmatist Means: In Search of a Rounded Portrait,” free and open to the public. The date is April 1, 2019, at 7 PM…
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity is pleased to announce the Keynote Address and AIPCT Residency Lecture of Dave Beisecker, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas. Monday, March 18, 2019, 7:00 PM. Professor Beisecker has been in residence at the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural…
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and the AIPCT are pleased to announce their first (annual) Spring Conference on Creativity. This year’s topic is “Creativity, Pragmatism, and Logic.” The conference runs from 1:00 to 5:00 PM, March 18, 2019. There will be a keynote lecture from 7:00 to 8:30,…
Irena Księżopolska of Vistula University (Warsaw, Poland), will present a seminar on “Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory.” While the Russian-born American writer Nabokov is best known as the author of Lolita, perhaps there is no other writer as obsessed with memory. From his very early poems to the…
“Robert Burns in His Century and Ours,” by Andrew Calhoun, part of the on-going music and thought series for AIPCT. Robert Burns (1759-1796) has been beloved of (nearly worshiped in) North America, harboring so many of Scotland’s sons and daughters, and has been a pillar of the development of American…
