Mar
28
Kant on Political Liberty and the Categorical Imperative
March 28, 2012 | 2 Comments
Hey guys, I’m happy to announce that this week we will get to mix things up a bit. Erik Dempsey, a post-doctorate fellow with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas here at UT, will deliver a talk over Kant’s political philosophy. For most of us, our study of Kant [...]
Mar
22
Mysticism and Metaphor
March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Hello again, philosophers! I hope you all had a good Spring break, got to catch some SXSW action, and hopefully rested up a little bit. This Friday we conclude our unit on philosophy of religion with a paper by UT’s very own Stephen Phillips entitled Mysticism and Metaphor. In it, he considers whether the non-mystic [...]
Mar
2
Alvin Plantinga’s “Is Belief in God Properly Basic?”
March 2, 2012 | 1 Comment
Hello UPA’ers! First off, a big thank you to everyone who came out for the Larry Laudan discussion last week. It was an enormously insightful meeting, and we were all privileged to receive some of Professor Laudan’s time. Now we return to our philosophy of religion unit. Few figures have loomed as large in contemporary [...]