Jan
28
On What There Is
January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Dear Friends, We invite you to our second meeting of the semester! Friday, January 28, 2011 4:30PM Garrison Hall 0.128 This week we are discussing Ontology. We will focus our discussion on a paper by Willard Quine titled “On What There Is.” Quine (1908-2000) was Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is one of [...]
Aug
17
UPA’s July Meetings
August 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
Wed July 28, 5pm at Spiderhouse This week in UPA we’re reading Saul Kripe. We’ll take a look at the first lecture of his book Naming and Necessity. This link will navigate you to the article: http://socialistica.lenin.ru/analytic/txt/k/kripke_1.htm In this lecture Kripke explains his philosophical method and some of its implications. His definitions of a prioicity and [...]