Check this out; Casey Kolodin has planned a refreshing two summer evening event. But no worries if you can only make one day.

First, MOCA is doing an Arshile Gorky retrospectve. It would make for an interesting discussion, as Gorky’s work is in many ways typically modern, and therefore, somewhat inaccessible to a lot [...]

“But then, what is philosophy today – philosophical activity, I mean – if it is not the critical work of thought on itself? And if it does not consist in the endeavour of knowing how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, rather than legitimating what is already [...]

In my existentialism class, we kept coming up against this idea: is it possible to ever get outside of das Man ? … so eventually Mr. G G Allin was mentioned, as someone who perhaps chooses for himself the norms and values he lives by, a modern day Diogenes. Here is a [...]

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Time: 6:10pm – 10:00pm
Location: On Campus, Room: KH B3018

I know, I know, it is bad form to preview the ending of a film. But do not worry, I did not give away any surprise ending, … so without any further delay, please join us this Wednesday @ 6:10 pm [...]

Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger

Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Time: 6:10pm – 10:00pm
Location: On Campus, Room: KH B3017

Come and check out our next philosophy in film discussion where we will talk about the flick, Fight Club directed by David Fincher. See you there.

And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I [...]

Here is an audio recorded rehearsal of a play that friends and I put on about three years back, just for fun.

It’s based on “Is GOD a Taoist?” from The Tao is silent by Raymond M. Smullyan. (C) 1977 by Raymond M. Smullyan.

Manuel de Landa speaking about the importance of Gilles Deleuze in the 21st century and the fundamentals of materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Questioning the role of structuralism and the post-modern position in philosophy, de Landa argues for a view of a materialist [...]

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 3:15pm – 5:00pm*
Location: University Student Union 307 (Pasadena Room)
Topic: Whitehead’s Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology
Please join us Tuesday, March 2 as Leemon McHenry (CSUN) offers a lecture/PowerPoint presentation on process philosophy and, particularly, Whitehead’s cosmology. …To read an introductory essay on metaphyics written by Dr. McHenry, click here. [...]

Date: Wednesday, February 17. 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: L.A. Central Library, 630 W. 5TH ST.
Topic: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Come join us for a free Q&A at the L.A. Central Library [ALOUD]
Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate [...]

Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 6:10pm – 9:30pm
Location: On Campus, Room King Hall B1013
Next in our series of open discussions about philosophy in film is the classic, The Seventh Seal directed by Ingmar Bergman.

“Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one’s senses? Why does He hide in a cloud of half-promises [...]