Book launch celebration for AIPCT Fellow Megan Volpert The AIPCT is pleased to celebrate the new book by fellow Megan Volpert, Straight Into Darkness: Tom Petty as Rock Mystic, published this September by the University of Georgia Press. Volpert will read an excerpt from the book, then a panel of…
Please join us at Scratch Brewing Company on Friday July 15, 5:30-7:30pm for a special lecture, in person only, by Dr. Gioia Laura Iannilli. Dr. Iannilli is Senior Assistant Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Bologna. This summer she is visiting the Special Collections Research Center as recipient of the Alwin C. Carus…
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 AIPCT is pleased to announce a new series of short historical videos that trace the roots of American political thought to its roots in the Old World, and through its development in the new. The series is done in conjunction with The Founders Club and Christian Murray, who is…
Fall Reading Group and CyberSeminar The AIPCT is pleased to announce that this years’ fall reading group will be a survey of “Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology,” led by John Shook, co-director and co-founder of AIPCT, who teaches at Georgetown University and Bowie State University. If you have always intended to…