2014-15 Discussion Groups

The GPPC sponsors the following discussion groups:

Asian and Comparative Philosophy Discussion Group
Every Wednesday, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Anderson Hall 322
West Chester University
700 South High Street
West Chester, PA 19383

Book Details:
Fall 2014:
Gay Watson, A Philosophy of Emptiness
(Glasgow, UK: Reaktion Books, 2014)

Winter/Spring 2015:
Antoine Panaioti, Nietzsche and Buddhist Philosophy
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Contact:
Charlotte Moore cmoore@wcupa.edu.

Epistemology Discussion Group - Work in Progress
Check main page for meeting times.
Papazian, Room 325
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081

Contact:
Peter Bauman, Department of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, pbauman1@swarthmore.edu or phone: 610.328.8433.

Email or call for confirmation, more information and directions to the meeting place and information for subsequent discussion meetings.

Philosophy of Religion Discussion Group
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Greaton Room
Barbelin-Lonergan Building, 116
Saint Joseph’s University

Dates:
9/10, 10/8, 11/12, 12/10, 1/14, 2/11, 3/11, 4/8

Book Details:
Fall 2014:
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014)

Winter/Spring 2015:
Adriaan Peperzak, Trust: Who or What Might Support Us?
(New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)

Contact:
Joseph Godfrey, Saint Joseph’s University, jgodfrey@sju.edu

Philadelphia Philosophy of Psychiatry Working Group
Meets about once a month to discuss publications in philosophy of psychiatry and works in progress by group members.

Saturdays, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Dates: Oct 18 and Nov 8, future dates TBD
Location: Drexel Library, St. Joseph's University, Room 214

Contact:
Ginger Hoffman, St. Joseph's University, ginger.hoffman@sju.edu.

Philosophy of Science Discussion Group
Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the month to discuss a colleague’s work in progress or to discuss readings that are of particular interest to participants.

6:15pm - 7:45pm
Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science
431 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Contact:
Miriam Solomon, Temple University, msolomon@temple.edu or Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania, hatfield@sas.upenn.edu.

For more information visit History and Philosophy of Science.