• FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or…

  • All Arché Research Day (Winter 2024)

    Edgecliffe G03

    This Friday, the Arché term wraps up with another all-day all-Arché get-together, featuring research presentations from Sabina Domínguez Parrado, Lara Scheibli, Stephen Read, and Franz Berto, and five-minute lightning talks from brave presenters including Jessica Brown, Simon Prosser, Christopher Masterman, and more. We’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. 9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic, or: What…

  • FPST Seminar: Anne Eaton (UIC) – Online

    Edgecliffe G03

    Title: Beyond Speech: Pictures and Oppression Abstract: Philosophical work on oppressive forms of expression strongly tends to give verbal and written linguistic expression pride of place. When it comes to pictures, there is a tendency to either treat them as if they were language – one sees this in feminist work on pornography – or…

  • Unity Seminar: Pre-Read – Vagueness & Topology

    Edgecliffe G03

    Rumfitt, Ian (2015). The Boundary Stones of Thought: An Essay in the Philosophy of Logic. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Ch. 8: The Challenge from Vagueness https://philpapers.org/rec/RUMTBS  

  • Film and Philosophy Club – Stories We Tell

    Edgecliffe G03

    We are proud to present the Fourth Session of the CEPPA Film Club. This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and Stories We Tell  (see trailer here). The movie will start SHARP at 17:15. Recommended reading and watching material Articles: Bill Nichols – Performative documentaries (in Blurred boundaries : questions of meaning in contemporary culture p.92-106).…