AIPCT and Redbud Hill Concerts are pleased to announce a cultural event for music lovers, suitable for the whole family. The Free Range Chicks will present a concert on Sunday, March 4, 2018. The concert runs from 3 PM til 5. A $12 donation is requested. Guests are welcome to…
These courses are not being held at the AIPCT, but we are promoting them. Dr. R. Michael Fisher is doing important work in bringing North America out of the warping and dangerous grips of fear. The spread on fear in recent decades is something that has become an ever deeper…
AIPCT is pleased to host a seminar on “Photography as a Way of Death Avoidance,” January 30, 2018, beginning at 7:30 PM. The evening’s leader is Diana Prokofyeva, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bashkir State University, in Ufa, Russia. Dr. Prokofyeva received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Bashkir State in…
AIPCT is pleased to announce that its spring reading group will commence Wednesday evening, 7:30 PM, January 24, and meet every Wednesday evening until April 11. The topic this spring will be the aesthetic works of Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817-1881). Lotze was an enormously influential interpreter of Kant and was…
AIPCT is pleased to host a seminar led by John Shook University at Buffalo and Bowie State University), President of the AIPCT. The topic is: “J.G. Herder on the Idea of God,” Wednesday, November 22, 2017. The public is cordially invited. Arrival is at 7:00 PM and the seminar will…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce that it will mark the First Anniversary of its founding with a special lecture and reception for the public. The invited lecturer is Lawrence Cahoone, Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. “George Herbert Mead and the Three Keys…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a lecture, free and open to the public, by Prof. Dr. Godehard Brüntrup, SJ. The title is “The Place of Freedom in Nature.” Dr. Brüntrup holds the Eric J. Lejeune Chair and Professor of Philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie,…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a weekly reading group, open to the public, and led by Randall Auxier, on the work of the 18th century philosopher, theologian, and historian Johann Gottfried herder. Herder was the first Western philosopher to undertake a global philosophy of history and among the first…
SUMMER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP The American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought (AIPCT) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship. The FPC Fellow must be in residence at the AIPCT in Murphysboro, IL, from June 1 until August 2,…
The AIPCT is pleased to host a seminar comparing and contrasting various kinds of atheism with long-standing views of nature. Contrasts and points of overlap, tensions and complementarities, will be discussed. The series is three consecutive evenings, which make for a full course in this topic, but each session is…