Mar

6

Korsgaard is coming to UT!

March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Dear Friends, On Friday we are attending Christine Korsgaard’s lecture! Friday, March 4, 2011 3:30 PM JGB 2.102 Christine Korsgaard is a professor of philosophy at Harvard University. Here’s a brief abstract of what she will be discussing on Friday: “We use the term “good” in two contexts: as a form of evaluation, and to [...]

Feb

25

African Philosophy

February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Hey everyone, This Friday we are having a special guest speaker! Prof. Dan Bonevac will be giving a talk on African Philosophy. This is a lecture you don’t want to miss! Friday, February 25, 2011 4:30PM Garrison Hall 0.128 Here is an abstract of the talk: Western philosophy comprises a more-or-less continuous tradition that stretches [...]

Feb

20

Committee for April 8th Event

February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment

At the end of this week (perhaps before this Friday’s UPA meeting) the planning committee for our upcoming event will meet. We will send an email out soon to determine the best time. We would like to update you with all of our plans so far and we would like to hear all of your [...]

Nov

16

A lecture by David Frank!

November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Hey Everyone! This week UPA is meeting on THURSDAY, 18th NOVEMBER. We are meeting at 6:30PM in Waggener Hall 316 (Conference Room). We are having a special guest lecture by David Frank, one of the honorable graduate students in the Department of Philosophy. Here is a short abstract of the talk: The talk will be [...]

Oct

28

This Friday: Graham Priest

October 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Hello philosophers! This Friday we will take a special field trip into Waggener Hall. This Friday, Graham Priest is giving a talk titled “Contradiction and the Structure of Unity.” http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/events/15297 Here is the abstract: Unless an object is utterly simple, it has parts. The parts are not a congeries, but are structured so as to [...]

Oct

3

UPA October Announcements

October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment

-We hope you enjoyed our first graduate student lecture by Tomas Bogardus. We would like to thank everyone who came! We will announce another graduate student lecture in the near future. -For those of you who attended any part of the Fifth UNAM-UT conference, be sure to tell everyone about it in our next meeting. [...]