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- What is the potential value of loneliness as a means of self-knowledge? How is loneliness an opportunity to identify a meaningful life? Can it be an impetus for positive transformation? Join us for Kaitlyn Creasy Mon. Feb. 9, 2pm ET / 7pm UK #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- #loneliness #connection #relationships #autobiography Read Kaitlyn Creasy's article "Lessons in Loneliness" in the current issue of The Philosopher: Crossing the Floods: www.thephilosopher1923.org/current-issue
- TODAY! Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK "Ask the Philosopher" Have any burning philosophical questions you'd like discussed?? Share them with us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- Coming up: Mon. Feb. 9 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "On Loneliness" Kaitlyn Creasy with Kate Warlow-Corcoran It's a painful feeling from an unfulfilled desire for recognition or connection. As the needs vary, so do the conditions for alleviation. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-lo...
- Have any burning philosophical questions you'd like discussed?? Share them with us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com, then join Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Emelye Needham for "Ask the Philosopher" Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- ICYMI: "#Love In Time" Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi on defining love, focusing on the temporal aspects of love, evaluating love, and vulnerability, death and the end of love. #Philosophy Please like, subscribe & comment on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9N...
- TODAY! Mon. Feb. 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "What is We?" Join Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan in conversation with Tara Emelye Needham discussing the concept "we," which is central to the humanities and social sciences, yet undertheorized. #Philosophy Register: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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- #Philosophy Reading Group coming!! 90 min/week with host, Kate Warlow-Corcoran "Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way" by Kieran Setiya (joining us Apr. 15th!) Wed. Feb. 25 to Apr. 15 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK $82usd/£60 (half price for members) www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- Sunday read: "On Being and Appearing: Social Reproduction and the Family Form" Tatiana Llaguno advances a Marxist feminist claim that the family is the capitalist form of appearance of unwaged reproductive labour. #Philosophy #Marxism www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-bein...
- Coming up: Thurs. Feb. 5 ~ I pm ET / 6 pm UK Ask the Philosopher Join us for an informal chat with Michael Bavidge, Michael Spicher, and Tara Needham. Send your question ahead of time to thephilosopher1923@gmail.com #Philosophy Register by donation: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- "What is We?" What does the concept "we" mean? Is it a collective or a method? How does our understanding of "we" affect how we understand the world? Join us for Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan with Tara Emelye Needham 1/2 Mon. Feb. 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- ICYMI from July: "When Liberation Becomes Subjugation: The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" Dabbagh & Hassan argue that external efforts to bring about regime change risk reanimating the imperialist dynamics that the Islamic Republic long exploited to justify its rule. #Philosophy #Iran
- Coming up: Mon. Feb 2 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "What Is We?" If "we" is a method for enacting, apprehending, contesting, and instrumentalizing boundaries, then we can confront failure, impossibility, and the hallucinatory nature of the universe. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- TODAY! Mon. Jan 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Love in Time" Join Fannie Bialek talking with Isabelle Laurenzi about love that embraces its susceptibility to change in contrast to a religious attempt to secure love against finitude. Free! #philosophy #relationship #love www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- ICYMI: "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?" Linda Kinstler talks with Alexis Papazoglou about the origins of realism, the Monroe Doctrine, applied realism and international law, legal legitimacy, and if Trump's strategy is realist or Machtpolitik. #Philosophy #Politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIP...
- Sunday read: "Towards an Art of Punishment" Benjamin George Coles argues that we would benefit from thinking of punishment in more aesthetic terms, incorporating artistic means into sentencing, with education as the primary objective. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/towards...
- We sometimes change in different directions from those we love, but how can braving the unknown together endear us to our lovers? How do we cope with love being an endeavour fraught with uncertainty? Join us Mon. Jan. 25 for ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK #Philosophy #Love www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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- The team at The Philosopher picked our favourite books that we read in 2025! We'd love to hear your favourites of the year as well! See the full write-up at our substack or scroll down for an in-brief version. 1/12 🧵 #Philosophy #Booksky thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/editors-pi...
- Coming up Mon. Jan. 26 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Love in Time" Fannie Bialek with Isabelle Laurenzi will explore a view of love that embraces the vagaries of life with a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- "Plato's Republic on Flourishing" a short with Angie Hobbs If you haven't seen it yet, check out the full video: "Why Plato Matters Now" (like and subscribe!) #Philosophy #Plato #politicalphilosophy youtube.com/shorts/uDpVl...
- "Plato's Republic on Social Harmony" a 26 second short with Angie Hobbs If you haven't seen it yet, check out the full video: "Why Plato Matters Now" (like and subscribe!) #Philosophy #Plato #politicalphilosophy youtube.com/shorts/UYJO3...
- The Philosopher is looking for volunteers to produce podcasts from videos and manage our instagram account. Email us at thephilosopher1923@gmail.com with Instagram Manager or Podcast Producer in the subject line by Feb. 8th. #philosophy #volunteer thephilosopher1923.substack.com/p/sunday-rea...
- TODAY: Mon. Jan. 19 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?" Linda Kinstler with Alexis Papazoglou Was international law always just a thin veil of justification for the exercise of brute force? Or are Trump's action a departure? #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- Sunday read: "What's Wrong with Anthropocentrism?" Christopher Belshaw weighs our moral duties to other creatures and the natural world, and argues that our unique moral agency brings special responsibilities as custodians. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/what-s-...
- ICYMI: " #Indigenous Redirections in #Political Thought" Yann Allard-Tremblay and Leila Ben Abdallah on politics of #reconciliation in settler colonial states, disruptive conservatism, political rightness, and a shared future. #Philosophy Like, subscribe & comment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdNX...
- Coming Mon. Jan. 19 ~ 2pm ET/7pm UK "Has Trump Proved Realists Right?" Linda Kinstler with Alexis Papazoglou Having little regard for "international niceties" echoes a philosophy of "realism," in operation for decades, just more overtly now. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- ICYMI: "Why Plato Matters Now" @profangiehobbs.bsky.social with Jon Hawkings and @peterwest23.bsky.social Why Plato's approach to writing is important; his model for respectful debate; the ethics of flourishing and justice, and his tripartite psyche and social classes #Philosophy
- TODAY! Mon. Jan. 12 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "#Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought" Yann Allard-Tremblay with Leila Ben Abdallah to discuss irreconcilable political options and argue that reconciliation must be transformative for both sides. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- Sunday read: "The Philosophy of Fascism" Jason Stanley argues that fascism abstracts from local history and reappears unders diverse conditions, organized around exclusionary nationalism, status grievance, and authoritarian leadership. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-phi...
- What are consequences for #reconciliation when we acknowledge the irreconcilable political stances of Euro-modern and #Indigenous governance? How can we transform both #political structures? #Philosophy Join Yann Allard-Tremblay Mon. Jan. 12 ~ 2pm ET/7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
- Coming up: Mon, Jan. 12 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Indigenous Redirections in Political Thought" Yann Allard-Tremblay, with Leila Ben Abdallah, on irreconcilable differences between NA Indigenous and Euro-modern political traditions. Register free or by donation: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
