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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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).…
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!
The AIPCT is pleased to announce a summer reading group. We will study Gloria Anzaldúa‘s masterpiece, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was among the pioneers of a post-colonial writing style that combines autobiography, poetry, social commentary, folklore and storytelling, multi-lingual and cross-lingual intersection, ethnography, and the essay.…
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects All of the presentations are now available here. The AIPCT is pleased to announce the annual Spring Conference on Creativity. The theme of this year’s conference is an exploration of how objects we don’t normally think of as “persons” take on personality, or may…