Past history: Anti-thesis began in Paris in the 1960's
when a small group of students from different
backgrounds and nationalities, who frequented the
cheapest coffeehouses, started meeting on a regular
basis,
to engage in all kinds of philosophical
discussions.
In later years, some of these individuals continued
pursuing their interest and passion for philosophy,
by
organizing "philosophy salons" in different cities of
Europe and the United States.
In the Washington
area, Anti-thesis has been active
since 1994. Anti-thesis meetings continue to take
place to this day.
And What We Did
2009
Nov: Aquinas on Greed
Oct: Bare Particulars - Theodore Sider
Sep:
The Meaning of Life - Jeffery Gordon
Aug: The Possibility of Altruism - Thomas Nagel
Jul: The Myth of Passage - Donald
Cary Williams
May: Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction
Apr & Jun: Dewey's Aesthetics
Mar: Spinoza's Treatise
on the Emendation of the Understanding
Jan & Feb: Ernest Gellner vs. Ordinary Language Philosophy
2008
Dec: Living Right and Living Well
Nov: Regret II
Sep & Oct: DesCartes's The Meditations
Aug: On Regret
Jun & July: Wittgenstein's Aesthetics
May: Popper's Demarcation Problem
Apr: Thagard on The Development of Knowledge
Mar: Gerald Holton on
Modern Science
and the Intellectual Tradition
Feb: Thagard's Theory of Scientific Explanation
Jan: The Nicomachean Ethics
2007
Dec: Pessimism as Philosophy
Nov: Deconstruction Revisited
Oct: Definitions of Deconstruction
Sep: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Aug: Intuitionistic Logic
Jul: Varieties of Anti-Realism
Jun: The Best Counter-Intuitive Philosophical Arguements
May: Peirce and Skepticism: The Fixation of Belief
Apr: Heraclitus
Mar: The Scope of Negation
Feb: Self-Deception
Jan: Counterfactuals per Nelson Goodman
2006
Dec: Aspects of Causality
Nov: Awareness II - And Free For All
Oct: Hempel's Raven Paradox
Sep: Awareness, Sentience
Aug: Consistent Theology (Philosophy of Religion)
Jul: Making a Judgement vs. Having an Opinion
Jun: Godel's Theorem and Gregory Chaitin
May: Universals and Nominalism
Apr: The Problem of Universals
Mar: The Biological Basis of Consciousness
Feb: Paradoxes
Jan: Kripke's Rigid Designators
2005
Realism and Anti-Realism: Alston
Selfhood: Paul Ricoeur
Subjective vs. Objective: Thomas Nagel
Evolutionary Epistemology
The Sorites Paradox: William Bronner
Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus
2004
Theories of Truth
Aesthetics: Santayana, Croce, and Wittgenstein
Following a Rule: Wittgenstein and Kripke
The Copernican Revolution
Realism and Anti-Realism: Hilary Putnam, John Searle
2003
Critchley's A Very Short Introduction to Continental Philosophy
The Principle of Insufficient Reason: Liebniz and Others
Freedom of the Will
The List of Unanswerables: Dave Thomas
2002
Ethics -- Utilitarian and Other
Bernard Williams's Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Robert Nozick's Philosophical Explanations
Thomas Nagel's The View From Nowhere
Craig's A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
2001
Free Will / Freedom
Kolakowski's Metaphysical Horror
The Golden Rule
2000
Authenticity: Charles Taylor
Aristotle: Jonathan Lear
Alistair MacIntyre's After Virtue
Skepticism
Freedom
1999
Ethics, Duty, Kant
Carneades's Distinction Between Assent and Approval
Hume on Causality
1998
Definitions: Truth, Reason, Certainty
Is It Good To Make Others Do Something Good?
1997
Friedrich Nietzsche's Human, All Too Human
Walter Kauffman's Critique of Religion and Philosophy and
Without Guilt or
Justice
Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Albert Camus's The Fall
Thelma Levine's From Socrates To Sartre
1996
On Referring: Norman Malcolm
Bertrand Russell's Philosophy (1927)
Skepticism
1995
Forms of sensible intuition: Immanuel Kant
Consciousness: Daniel Dennett
Damasio's DesCartes's Error
1994
Existentialism: Necessity, Anachronisms, and Worldwide Impact
a. Sartre
b. Camus
c. Gide
