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Hey Everyone! This week UPA is meeting on THURSDAY, 18th NOVEMBER. We are meeting at 6:30PM in Waggener Hall 316 (Conference Room). We are having a special guest lecture by David Frank, one of the honorable graduate students in the Department of Philosophy. Here is a short abstract of the talk: The talk will be [...]

Hey Everyone, This week we’re going to discuss a classical form of Skepticism! In this reading Sextus Empiricus outlines the method of a form of Skepticism he calls Pyrrhonism. After sketching his method, Empiricus goes on to attack the notion of a criterion for knowledge. This argument is very old and probably dates from the [...]

Dearest Philosophers, This Friday we are discussing the subjects of Rationality and Morality. We will begin our discussion with Kurt Baier’s paper titled, “Rationality and Morality.” For our discussion we will focus on two short sections of the paper. We will read the first three pages and Section II (which spans from page 14 to [...]

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