AIPCT is pleased to announce a holiday reading group and close study of The Red Book of Carl Gustav Jung. The dates are December 10, 13, 17, 20, 27, and January 3, 7, and 10. All sessions begin at 7:00 and formal study will end around 8:30. Informal discussion continues indefinitely after the session concludes. The…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce that the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) is now accepting applications for its Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship. The FPC Fellow must be in residence at the AIPCT in Murphysboro, IL, from June 1 until August 2, 2019 and will receive housing and $1000 per month, plus a travel stipend…
Here is the seminar presented by Claudio Paolucci, Director of Scientific Research, Umberto Eco Institute of Advance Studies, University of Bologna, October 2018.
The AIPCT is pleased to mark its second anniversary with the Annual Institute Lecture, November 26, 2018. The lecture begins at 7:00, doors open at 6:15. This year’s invited speaker is Dr. Myron M. Jackson, who holds the Besl Chair in the Ethics, Religion, and Society at Xavier University in Cincinnati. His topic is “The…
Claudio Paolucci of the University of Bologna will present a seminar on Wednesday evening, October 17, 2018, at 7:30 PM on the topic of laughter in Eco’s philosophy and novels, especially The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna. The seminar is free and open to the public. Light snacks and drinks will be provided, but attendees…
Douglas R. Anderson presented the fourth Lewis Hahn Memorial Lecture at AIPCT in Murphysboro on July 21, 2018. The lecture is sponsored by the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and its affiliated Societies for the Philosophy of Creativity. Dr. Anderson is Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of North…
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, presents his lecture in honor of Hahn Lecturer Doug Anderson at AIPCT in Murphysboro, July 21, 2018. The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity decided to expand the Hahn Memorial Lecture to include two earlier lectures devoted to the life and work of the main lecturer. …
Steven Miller of Ripon College presents his lecture in honor of Hahn Lecturer Doug Anderson at AIPCT in Murphysboro, July 21, 2018. The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity decided to expand the Hahn Memorial Lecture to include two earlier lectures devoted to the life and work of the main lecturer.
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity (FPC) sponsored the first annual William S. Minor Lecture, July 22, 2018. Jennifer Marra of Marquette University received the first FPC Dissertation Fellowship and was in residence at AIPCT for the months of June and July, which culminated with her presentation of this lecture. William S. Minor was…
The AIPCT reading group for Fall of 2018 will begin September 5th at 7:30 PM. We will read Umberto Eco’s novel, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, and we will discuss the story, its many images, and the structure of the novel in light of Eco’s own theories of the role of the reader, semiosis,…