Feb

15

“The Desert in the Desert”

February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment

Hey UPA’ers, Though I (Armando) was not able to attend last Friday’s meeting, I understand that it went very well!  I want to thank those of you who showed up.  If you enjoyed that paper, you ought to keep your eyes peeled in the coming days for some exciting news. Until then, we open up [...]

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 [...]

Mar

15

A Guest Lecture on Nietzche by Anthony Norton

March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Hey Philosophers! We are having a guest speaker TOMORROW MARCH 10th 6:30PM in SAC 3.116 (Balcony Room C) This meeting replaces our normal meeting time on Friday. Anthony Norton, a recent graduate of our philosophy department is coming to give a talk on some of his work. Norton also completed an honors thesis under the [...]

Oct

21

A Selection From Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment

Dearest Philosophers, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish We will focus our discussion around a short selection out of the last chapter of Discipline and Punish. In this selection we will discuss a very interesting view concerning the nature of the prison in modern society. Foucault points out [...]

Oct

6

A Selection From Judith Butler’s Book: Gender Trouble

October 6, 2010 | 28 Comments

Dear Friends, This Friday we are discussing a selection from: Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble Judith Butler claims that there is a problem within feminist theory. Butler claims that there is a problem in being committed to gender categories. Gender categories, for Butler, are inadequate when representing people. As a result of shifting historical contexts (and [...]

Sep

30

Will the Internet Drive us to Nihilism?

September 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

This week in UPA we’re reading the conclusion of Hubert Dreyfus’s book On the Internet. His conclusion builds to the idea that the internet will drive us all to Nihilism! This distinguished professor is a member of the UC Berkely faculty. His specific interest in the philosophy is existentialism. To find out why Dreyfus would [...]