Sep
8
Analytic and Continental Philosophy: What’s the difference?
September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Hello, fellow UPA’ers! First off, I want to apologize for a technical error on my part. I mistakenly believed that I sent an email to everyone on the mailing list regarding the location of our meetings for the semester, when in fact I accidentally omitted a big chunk of it. I had a few people [...]
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 [...]