Institute for American Thought

Events

Past Events and Lectures 

Peircean Arguments for God and Current Theological Strategies
John Shook
Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y.,
and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo

Public Democracy is not Disloyalty: Social Intelligence for Real Americans
John Shook
Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y.,
and Research Associate in Philosophy at the University at Buffalo  

Economics, Christianity, and Creative Evolution: Peirce, Newcomb, and Ely
and the Issues Surrounding the Creation of the American Economic Association in the 1880s
Jim Wible
Professor of Economics, University of New Hampshire
April, 2010

Constructing George Herbert Mead’s book Mind, Self, and Society
Daniel Huebner
Sociology Department, University of Chicago
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Pragmatism, Then and Now
Susan Haack
University of Miami, professor of philosophy and law
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mental Action and the Pre-Gnosiological Basis for the Proto-Diagram Concept
Ana Maria Guimaraes Jorge
Faap-Sp And Puc-Sp, Brasil
Thursday, January 21, 2010 

Charting Peirce’s 66 Classes of Signs with the SignTree Model
Priscila Borges
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil 
Thursday, April 2, 2009    

The Value of Psyche as an Amphibious Concept
Michael Brodrick
Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Monday 29 March 2009

Peirce’s concept of continuity: a philosophical approach
Hélio Rebello
São Paulo State University (UNESP)/Center for Pragmatism Studies (PUC, São Paulo)
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Solving Wigner’s Mystery: The Reasonable (Though Perhaps Limited) Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Middlesex University, London
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Jumping Over the Moon: Anthropomorphism in Peirce’s Pragmatism
Mats Bergman
University of Helsinki / Arcada University of Applied Sciences
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Peirce and James on Experience
Henrik Rydenfelt
University of Helsinki
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Semiotic’s Significance
Tom Short
Chairman PEP Board of Advisors
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Varieties of Naturalism: The Nature of Faith and Naturalist Responses to Atheism
Matthew C. Flamm (Rockford College)
Bethel P. Eddy (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
John Shook (Center for Free Inquiry)
Susan O’Banion (IUPUI)
Thursday April 10, 2008

The Impious Naturalism of the New Atheists
Matthew C. Flamm (Rockford College)
Bethel P. Eddy (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Thursday April 10, 2008

Aging and Spirtuality
Michael Brodrick
Vanderbilt University
Thursday, March 20, 2008

SAAP 35th Annual Conference
March 13-15, 2008 at Michigan State University

Evasions & Erasures: Recollecting the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Vincent Colapietro
Friday February 29, 2008

The Tyranny of Method: A Pragmatic Defense of Philosophical Pluralism
Vincent Colapietro
Pennsylvania State University
Thursday February 28, 2008

The Philosopher’s Place: William James, Hugo Münsterberg, and the Geography of Knowledge
Francesca Bordogna
Northwestern University
Thursday February 7, 2008