January 13 “Eros, Tragedy and the Void in Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy” Kate Petroff, PhD Candidate, Philosophy Respondent: Erik Giard-Chase, MAPH student January 20 “From Erotics to Perspicacity to Depth: Sontag…
Published January 7, 2022 by clewis7
TUESDAY, October 5 “Systematic Platonism and the Literary Character of Plato’s Dialogues” Will Altman, Independent Scholar Respondent: Antoine Pageau-St-Hilaire, PhD candidate, Committee on Social Thought *Note unusual date* October 21…
Published September 26, 2021 by clewis7
Literature & Philosophy Workshop The University of Chicago Spring 2021 Schedule April 8 “The Theaetetus as Philosophical Fiction” By Prof. James Redfield, Classics, Social Thought, and the College Respondent:…
Published September 26, 2021 by clewis7
Autumn 2019 Schedule October 10. Luke Foster, Ph.D. Candidate, Social Thought, University of Chicago “Separated Powers in Hamlet’s Soul: The Tragedy of Denmark” October 17. Andrei Pop, Professor of Social Thought and…
Published March 20, 2019 by aeray
January 10th: Susan McWilliams (Professor of Politics, Pomona College), “American Road Trip Stories and American Political Thought” (Foster 505) Since long before the age of the automobile, Americans have been…
Published December 21, 2018 by aeray
October 2nd: James Kreines (Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College), “Absolute Idealism and the Metaphysical Definitions of God: Hegel on Aristotle and Spinoza” (Foster 505) October 18th: Lindsay Atnip…
Published July 27, 2018 by aeray
March 29th: Michael Rutherglen (PhD student, Committee on Social Thought), “Intermittency, Transparency, & Parody: On Eliot’s Rhymes” (Foster 305) Although T.S. Eliot is most often thought of as helping to…
Published March 26, 2018 by nbellinson
January 11th: Danielle Charette (PhD student, Social Thought), “Shakespearean Monarchs in Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death: Royal Case-Studies in Despair” (Foster 305) Throughout The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard draws upon Shakespeare to illustrate the theatrics of…
Published December 8, 2017 by nbellinson
September 28th: Parysa Mostajir (PhD candidate, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science), “Experience and Literature”This paper provides a pragmatist argument for the importance of literature in a healthy and progressive human…
Published September 19, 2017 by nbellinson
The Literature & Philosophy Workshop Spring Schedule is now up on our website and included below. All workshops take place in Foster 305 unless otherwise noted; documents are generally available…