The AIPCT is pleased to announce the Residency Lecture of Megan Volpert, “Normativity in the Nineties: Notes Toward Future Applications of Pierre Schlag’s Critique,” which will be held on-line (due to COVID) on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at 11 AM US Central Time. (This is 6 PM in Central Europe.)…
Hahn Lectures 2022: Richard Shusterman The AIPCT and the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) are pleased to announce the 2022 Lewis E. Hahn lectures, honoring the work and ideas of Richard Shusterman. The particular focus will be Shusterman’s work applying his somaesthetics to the Ars Erotica. This year,…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce its summer reading group, led by Megan Volpert, AIPCT Fellow (see bio below). The group will meet on Tuesday evenings during June and July beginning at 7 PM central time, 8 PM eastern. Trigger Warning: This group is not for the timid and the…
The AIPCT and the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity are pleased to announce the fourth annual Spring Creativity Conference. The conference will be hybrid this year, with a limited number of socially-distanced in-person guests (by invitation), and also being sent out by Zoom to anyone who wants to attend.…
Spring Reading Group and CyberSeminar The AIPCT is pleased to announce that this years’ Spring reading group will be a survey of will be a survey of “African American Philosophy as African American Studies,” led by Anthony Sean Neal, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University. Sessions will begin…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce: Event: Locke, Liberty, and Law: A Live Interview and Q&A with Christian Murray Date: December 3, 2021 9 AM Central Time USA Throughout this fall AIPCT, in association with The Founders Club, has sponsored the making of a series of short educational videos on…
The video is here. This is the third of the videos covering Locke’s influence on the formation of the American Republic. Here writer and filmmaker Christian Murray examines John Locke’s theory of civil society, as set out in the second part of the Second Treatise of Government. This research and…
The video is here. Here filmmaker and writer Christian Murray examines the first part of John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government. It is the second of three videos on Locke’s influence in the formation of the American Republic. This video reviews Locke’s arguments about how the “state of nature” is…
The video is here. This is the second video in our series, this one on Locke’s First Treatise of Government. The AIPCT in cooperation with The Founders Club does a series of short videos about the roots of American political thought. This is the first of three videos about John…
The video is here. This is the first in our series of videos in cooperation with The Founders Club. Christian Murray summarizes and explains the important treatise of the Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) on the Spirit of Law. Here the philosopher argues why the separation of powers is crucial to the…