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 working with AIPCT to produce…
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 get informed about pragmatism, here…
AIPCT is sad to have lost one of its most active and generous supporters. Joseph Margolis (1924-2021) was Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He has taught philosophy, continuously, for seventy years at a large number of universities in the United States and world-wide. Margolis was a generous mentor, always…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce the Residency Lecture of Helen Grela, “Have We Effectively Made Money a Person and Ourselves Its Corporeal Embodiment?” set for May 20, 2021, 2 PM (Central Time US). The response will be given by Kenneth Stikkers, Senior Fellow of the AIPCT. The lecture will be on Zoom. RSVP to…
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and the AIPCT are pleased to announce our third annual Spring Creativity Conference. Due to the pandemic, the conference will be held on-line. This year’s theme is Creativity and Culture, organized by AIPCT Fellow Eli Kramer. This is also part of the on-going collaboration between Southern Illinois University…
The AIPCT is pleased to announce its 5th annual Institute Lecture. The lecture is now available here. This year’s speaker is Crispin Sartwell, Professor of Philosophy at Dickinson College. His Lecture is “Why Philosophy Tried to Commit Suicide in the 20th Century (and a Bit about Why It Failed)” The Lecture will be held virtually…
AIPCT is pleased to make available the 2020 Lewis E. Hahn Lectures and the William S. Minor Lecture on our YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the channel (it’s free) so that you can be informed of future updates. Here is the link.
Fall Reading Group The AIPCT is pleased to announce that our fall reading group will be the classic works by Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory. The group will gather by Zoom at 7:00 PM on Wednesday evenings and go until 9 PM, USA central time. Our group leader is John…
The event has been delayed this year due to the pandemic, and also will take place virtually for that reason. To attend virtually, send an rsvp to: personalist61@gmail.com. You will receive a link just prior to the start of the day’s events, which begins at 11 AM central time (USA). The AIPCT and the Foundation…
Illinois has a very generous credit for those who install solar. Thanks to our friends at Advanced Energy Solutions for helping us through a complicated process and installation. AIPCT is now Solar!