Feb
8
The Demise of the Demarcation Problem
February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment
Greetings, philosophers! First, just a little notice: Armando will unfortunately not be here for this week’s discussion, so if you’re seeking his characteristic insight regarding the reading for this week, you’ll have to talk to him before then! This week, we will read a seminal piece by Larry Laudan, “The Demise of the Demarcation Problem”, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Aug
26
A case for a Poetic method of Philosophy
August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dear Philosophers, Tomorrow we will hold the first meeting of the Fall 2010 semester. Friday, August 27, 2010 4:30PM Garrison Hall 0.128 We invite you to join us for our first meeting in Garrison Hall to discuss the ways of doing philosophy. Our discussion will focus on the paper “Philosophical Methods” by T.K. Seung. Seung [...]