The AIPCT is pleased to announce that its fall reading group will commence Thursday, September 19, 2019, at 7:30 pm. The reading for the fall will be R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1969). The reading schedule is below. The leader for this fall is Cornelius Crane, a fellow of the AIPCT. Corny…
The lecture is available here. The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce the second annual William S. Minor Lecture. Dr. Gioia Laura Iannilli, recipient of the 2019 William S. Minor Dissertation Fellowship, will present her research under the title “‘Experience Design’ and Creativity: Starting from John Dewey’s Conception of Substance…
7:00 PM: The lecture is available here. Kenneth W. Stikkers, “Rethinking Economics as Moral Philosophy.” Professor Stikkers presents the fifth Lewis Hahn Memorial Lecture at AIPCT in Murphysboro on July 27, 2019, at 7:00 PM. The lecture is sponsored by the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and its affiliated Societies for the Philosophy of…
The AIPCT is pleased to join our fellow organizations and a number of our Fellows in holding International Philosophy of Culture Week. All events are in Warsaw, but it may be possible post these events later as recordings (they will be in the middle of the night in Illinois). IPoC Week posters (dragged) IPoC Week…
The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce “The Town that Music Saved,” a presentation and concert in the AIPCT Music and Culture series. Beginning from a grant by the Vermont Arts Council, Dana and Susan Robinson collected stories and composed songs depicting the relation of music and community in difficult…
“Common Ideals shared by Eastern Orthodoxy and Erich Fromm’s Humanism” The American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought is pleased to announce a public seminar on Eastern Orthodox religion and humanistic psychology. The seminar will be April 8, 2019, at the AIPCT, 411 N. 9th Street, Murphysboro, IL. The event is free and open to…
The seminar can be viewed on our YouTube channel here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeyj42EbHQ&t=28s The AIPCT is pleased to announce a seminar by Roberta Dreon, “Looking at Human Sensibility by Pragmatist Means: In Search of a Rounded Portrait,” free and open to the public. The date is April 1, 2019, at 7 PM at the AIPCT (411 N….
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity is pleased to announce the Keynote Address and AIPCT Residency Lecture of Dave Beisecker, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas. Monday, March 18, 2019, 7:00 PM. Professor Beisecker has been in residence at the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought during the 2018-2019 academic…
The Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity and the AIPCT are pleased to announce their first (annual) Spring Conference on Creativity. This year’s topic is “Creativity, Pragmatism, and Logic.” The conference runs from 1:00 to 5:00 PM, March 18, 2019. There will be a keynote lecture from 7:00 to 8:30, and pizza will be served…
Irena Księżopolska of Vistula University (Warsaw, Poland), will present a seminar on “Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory.” While the Russian-born American writer Nabokov is best known as the author of Lolita, perhaps there is no other writer as obsessed with memory. From his very early poems to the unfinished manuscript of his last…