Jan
20
What is the Future of Philosophy?
January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Dear Friends, We invite you to join us for the first meeting of the semester! Friday, January 21, 2011 4:30PM Garrison Hall 0.128 In our first meeting we will discuss John Searle’s paper, “The Future of Philosophy.” Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at UC-Berkeley. He is well known for his contributions to the philosophy [...]
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
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. [...]
Sep
8
Russell’s Universals
September 8, 2010 | 4 Comments
This week in UPA, we’re reading a chapter from Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy called The World of Universals. In this chapter, Russell, the author of Why I am Not a Christian, talks about his belief in an unsensible world of being, where universals subsist. It might seem strange for such a metaphysical, Platonic [...]