About CPR
The Carolina Philosophy Retreat (CPR) is the annual summer symposium for graduate students, faculty, and alumni of the philosophy department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
It is held each
year in
Cranberry
Lake, NY. Here is a Map.
PHOTOS:
CPR 2003: August 4-10. Featured
speaker: Professor Thomas Holden (UNC PhD, now
at UC Santa Barbara)
CPR 2004: August 2-8. Featured: UNC Professor John Roberts
CPR 2005: August 3-10. Featured: UNC Professor Joshua Knobe
CPR 2006: August 7-13. Featured: UNC Professor C.D.C. Reeve
CPR 2007: July 2-8. Featured Dr. Matthew Chrisman (UNC PhD, Lecturer at University of
Edinburgh)
CPR 2008: August 11-17. Features UNC Prof. Matt Kotzen [No photos yet]
CPR 2009: July 18 -24. Special retreat in honor of UNC Prof. Gerald Postema [No photos yet]
| William James Stillman. The Philosophers' Camp in the Adirondacks, 1858. Reproduced by permission of the Concord Free Public Library. Emerson is in the center between two trees. |
The retreat house and a view down Cranberry Lake
Adirondack Philosophy
"Wise and polite, - and if I
drew
Their several portraits,
you would own
Chaucer had no such
worthy crew,
Nor Boccace in Decameron."
-Ralph Waldo
Emerson,
The Adirondacs
(sic): A Journal Dedicated to my Fellow Travellers in August,
1858
"There are some
nooks and summits in that Adirondack region where one can really 'recline
on one's divine composure,' and as long as one stays up there, seem for a
while to enjoy one's birthright of freedom and relief from every fever and
falsity."
- William James, 1895
The Adirondacks have long been home to American philosophy and intellectual life:
Both William James and John Dewey owned camps in the park and took part in summer schools there.
Emerson wrote a poem about his time as a member of the 'Adirondack Club,' exploring the park's wilderness.
Sigmund Freud, upon visiting the Adirondacks in 1909, declared, "Of all the things that I have experienced in America, this is by far the most amazing."
CPR tries to capture a bit of the magic that so inspired past philosophers.
CPR Painting: Nick Prapopoulos - a good
friend and welcome guest - has
sent us this painting
of the retreat house at Cranberry Lake.