Apr
10
UPA’s First Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Philosophy majors and student body at large, The Undergraduate Philosophy Association would like to cordially invite you the first annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, this Friday at 3:00 PM in Waggener 302. Seven of our best thinkers will have the opportunity to present their research to an audience of like-minded peers like you, who are encouraged [...]
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 [...]
Nov
10
Memory and Knowledge: The Epistemological Significance of Biology
November 10, 2011 | 421 Comments
Good afternoon, philosophers! What is memory? Is it just drawing on a cache of retained knowledge? Or, as Plato had it, is it the vehicle by which we gain knowledge? These are the questions that D.M. Johnson focuses on “Memory and Knowledge: The Epistemological Significance of Biology”, which we will be covering this week. Johnson [...]