Oct
28
This Friday: Graham Priest
October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hello philosophers! This Friday we will take a special field trip into Waggener Hall. This Friday, Graham Priest is giving a talk titled “Contradiction and the Structure of Unity.” http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/events/15297 Here is the abstract: Unless an object is utterly simple, it has parts. The parts are not a congeries, but are structured so as to [...]
Oct
21
A Selection From Foucault’s Discipline and Punish
October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Dearest Philosophers, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish We will focus our discussion around a short selection out of the last chapter of Discipline and Punish. In this selection we will discuss a very interesting view concerning the nature of the prison in modern society. Foucault points out [...]
Oct
14
John Searle on Perception
October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hey everybody! This week we’re going to read a chapter from Searle’s book Mind. The topic of the chapter is perception. In this article Searle considers the sense-data theory of perception and offers an alternative he calls direct realism. This article should be really interesting and it is the second meeting we’ve devoted to the [...]
Oct
14
Ex Nihilo: Call for Papers
October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Ex Nihilo, UT’s undergraduate philosophy journal, is announcing a call for papers for publication in the spring semester. This is a great opportunity for committed students of philosophy to showcase their knowledge and writing skills and be published in a journal before entering graduate school or a professional career. The submission guidelines are as follows: [...]
Oct
6
A Selection From Judith Butler’s Book: Gender Trouble
October 6, 2010 | 28 Comments
Dear Friends, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble Judith Butler claims that there is a problem within feminist theory. Butler claims that there is a problem in being committed to gender categories. Gender categories, for Butler, are inadequate when representing people. As a result of shifting historical contexts (and [...]
Oct
3
UPA October Announcements
October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
-We hope you enjoyed our first graduate student lecture by Tomas Bogardus. We would like to thank everyone who came! We will announce another graduate student lecture in the near future. -For those of you who attended any part of the Fifth UNAM-UT conference, be sure to tell everyone about it in our next meeting. [...]