Writing For (a) First Cause (Anthology Launch Event)

This is the home page for the first ever Philosophy Portal Anthology Launch Event inspired by the release of Writing For (a) First Cause. The live event will take place this Wednesday August 13th (TODAY!). Below you will find more information as well as register for the event.

  • 1400-1430: Opening

    1430-1500: Cadell Last

    1500-1530: Dimitri Crooijmans

    1530-1600: Daniel L. Garner

    1600-1630: Edie Hitchcock

    1630-1700: Davide Pasti

    1700-1730: Lukasz Silski

    1730-1800: Phillip Shinn

    1800-1830: Matthew Stanley

    1830-1900: Thomas Hamelryck

    1900-1930: Sinziana Ravini

    1930-2000: Cleo Kearns

    2000-2030: Samuel McCormick

    2030-2100: Joris de Kelver

    2100-2200: Closing

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Anthology Authors

  • Cadell Last

    Creator/founder of Philosophy Portal, author of Real Speculations

  • Dimitri Crooijmans

    Creator of Actual Spirit and objet lil a

  • Daniel L. Garner

    Philosopher and co-author as O.G. Rose of Belonging Again

  • Edie Hitchcock

    Psychotherapist in private practice and advanced candidate at Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

  • Davide Pasti

    Doctoral candidate, Machine Learning Specialist at GCAS College Dublin

  • Łukasz Silski

    Underground theorist, Lacanian psychoanalysis

  • Phillip Shinn

    Actor, poet, and philosopher

  • Matthew Stanley

    Writer, educator, creator/founder of Samara Diagnostics

  • Thomas Hamelryck

    Specialist in Bayesian modelling and probabilistic machine learning, renegade Girardian

  • Sinziana Ravini

    Psychoanalyst, journalist, magazine editor (Paletten), writer, and curator

  • Cleo Kearns

    Anthropology, continental philosophy, and religious studies

  • Samuel McCormick

    Teacher, scholar, lecturer on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Communication Studies

  • Joris de Kelver

    Creator/founder of Multiversity, Zarathustrian steward of the commons (Wooncoop)

  • Mark Gerard Murphy

    Psychoanalytic theology, author of The Direction of Desire

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