Announcing: On Philosophy, Fall 2025!! All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except Oct. 27th at 3pm ET) featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Quill Kukla, James Bridle, Louise Amoore, Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, Jennifer Park, Dan McQuillan, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

When is political violence justified, if ever? What alternatives are there when democratic politics and non-violent resistance fail? Is the appeal to violence restricting the left's political vision? #Philosophy Join us Mon. Sept. 22, 2pm ET / 7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Tonight! Does the left have a political violence problem? Register below, as always in partnership with the philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/the-p...

Sunday read: "On Housecraft" Emma Wilkins reviews "Home Work" by Helen Hayward. Society dismisses domestic work as trivial, bt it can be deeply meaningful. Wilkins explores why some jobs are elevated and others overlooked. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-hous...

Machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Audrey Borowski in conversation with @amoorelouise.bsky.social from @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Register now 👉 www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

Join us Wed. Sept. 24 - 1pm ET / 6pm UK for Ask the Philosopher with James Andow, Maryam Aghdami, and Michael Bavidge Submit your questions in advance, and we'll try our best to offer some engaging responses! #Philosophy More info and regristration here: www.thephilosopher1923.org/groups-class...

Announcing: On Philosophy, Fall 2025!! All events are free, Mondays at 2pm ET / 7pm UK (except Oct. 27th at 3pm ET) featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Quill Kukla, James Bridle, Louise Amoore, Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, Jennifer Park, Dan McQuillan, and so many more! #Philosophy #PhilEvents

Sign up for an event I'm chairing with The Philosopher, On the Marginalisation of Women in Philosophy and Science, here: www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/on-th... Speakers include Dame Athene Donald, Francesca Peacock, and Jennifer Park.

Join us tomorrow, Mon. Sep. 15, (2pm ET / 7pm UK), as Alyssa Battistoni kicks off our fall "On Philosophy" event series with "On Nature's Free Gifts" Why do some things have value under capitalism and others do not?? How can we live freely while valuing nature? #Philosophy Register here:

Your Sunday read: "Bergson and Intuitive Knowledge" Alan Shepherd examines Henri Bergson's view of intuition as a key to metaphysical knowledge, revealing a creative, loving force behind life and offering deep, spiritual truths. #Philosophy

Looking forward to discussing this next week with @alybatt.bsky.social ! Mon 15 Sep 2025 7PM BST / 2PM ET / 11AM PT Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

The first Fall session of Ask the Philosopher is coming up on Tuesday, September 24th at 1pm ET/6pm UK Public registration opens on Sept. 16th, but if you support our Patreon, you can register in advance right now! #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

Join us Mon. Sept. 15, 7pm UK / 2pm ET "On Nature's Free Gifts" Alyssa Battistoni in conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia explores capitalism's persistent failure to value nature and invites us to imagine how we might live freely valuing nature's gifts. #Philosophy

Sunday Sounds "The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" Listen to Patrick Hassan and Hossein Dabbagh discuss if a country can ever really be freed from an oppressive government through violent intervention from an external power. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/podcast/epis...

Ask the Philosopher returns for the fall schedule!! Join us on these Wednesdays: September 24 October 22 November 19, and December 17 Get some answers to your most pressing philosophical questions! #philosophy

TP&TN podcast: "The Moral Paradox of Regime Change in Iran" Alexis Papazoglou with Hossein Dabbagh and Patrick Hassan: Can a country ever really be freed from an oppressive government through the violent intervention of an external power? #Philosophy

TP&TN podcast: "Trump vs Musk: A rift in the MAGA alliance" Alexis Papazoglou talks with Yascha Mounk about the two galaxy-sized egos who tried to work together as well as a deeper ideological tension between Silicon Valley and Steve Bannon. #Philosophy #Politics

Sunday read: "Peter Singer and 50 Years of Animal Liberation" Daan Stoop explores the WWII origin of veganism to stop "that other holocaust" and the influence of Peter Singer, who asked "Can animals suffer?" instead of 'Can they think?' to argue speciesism is as indefensible as racism. #Philosophy

ICYMI: "Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?" Sasha Mudd & Alexis Papazoglou on how universities struggle under authoritarian regimes, classism, and the role of values, government, and politics in academic research. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKcu...

Special Thursday read: "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

ICYMI: "How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" Shannon Vallor with Audrey Borowski On the Turing test, self-knowledge, the good life in the digital age, uses for AI, regulating AI, and post-humanism. #Philosophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oJ3...

Sunday read: "What was Marx's Concept of Ideology?" Sandro Brito Rojas contrasts neutral and negative interpretations of the word, takes us through Napoleon's pejorative use, then to Marx urging us to remain on the "real ground of history." #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/what-wa...

If you've enjoyed our Spring 2025 series and the "AI and the Digital" talks, please considering donating to help support The Philosopher's ongoing content! #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/donate

TODAY - Tues. July 1 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?" Sasha Mudd in conversation with Alexis Papazoglou Did universities allow political ideology to contaminate their project of open inquiry in the pursuit of knowledge and truth? #Philosophy

TODAY - Mon. June 30 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" Shannon Vallor in conversation with Audrey Borowski How can we rethink AI to help us repair a broken world? #Philosophy Join us - registration is FREE: www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/how-t...

Shannon Vallor, author of "The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" will join us to discuss AI as a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, calling us to rethink what AI can be. Mon. June 30th - 2pm ET / 7pm UK #Philosophy

Sunday read: "It Takes All Kinds: On Friendship" John Lysaker argues for diversity in friendship, that even imperfect or partial bonds enrich our lives and shape who we become as they "check our limits and metabolise our varied potentials". #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/it-take...

Sasha Mudd, Philosopher-at-Large for Prospect Magazine, will join us to discuss Trump's ban on foreign students, cut to federal funding, and use of other authoritarian tactics to undermine universities. Join us Tues. July 1 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK #philosophy #education #universities

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Join us Tues. July 1 - 2pm ET/ 7pm UK for "Are Progressives to Blame for Trump's Attack on Universities?" Richard Rorty warned of resentment towards higher ed. Are unis too removed from society to engage? Sasha Mudd with Alexis Papazoglou #Philosophy #education

Join us Mon. June 30 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK for the finale to our "AI and the Digital" series: "How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" Shannon Vallor with Audrey Borowski Can AI be a way to relaim our human potential for growth? #Philosophy #technology #philtech

Sunday read: Roddy Brent explores the psychological and societal impacts of disappearance as a tool of political violence, delving into daily rituals of hope and despair, and calls for critical engagement with this crime against humanity. #philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/rituals...

ICYMI: "Black Stories of Freedom" James B. Haile III with Alessandro Raengo On Black speculative fiction, freedom as a practice, constructing origin stories, freedom, knowledge and peace, and temporality and time travel. #philosophy #juneteenth2025 Please like and subscribe on YouTube!

ICYMI: "AI and Human Creativity" Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski on AI's impact on the brain, how human creativity differs from AI, creativity as a core human need, and creativity as a process or product. Like & subscribe on YouTube! #Philosophy #philtech #technology

Registration is open for this month's "Ask the Philosopher" on Tues. June 24, 1pm ET / 6pm UK with Anthony Morgan (his final appearance), Johanna Fisher, Michael Bavidge, and Tara Needham. Submit questions to [email protected], and register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

TODAY! Tues. June 17 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "AI and Human Creativity" Join us for a discussion on the the effects of AI on artistic creation and on what it means to be an author. Where do we go from here with our newest technologies?? #Philosophy #technology www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

The Following video is a special presentation of @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social ‘s Book series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. Leibniz in His World: The Making Of A Savant, with Dr. Audrey Borowski (Oxford). youtu.be/2WutcgbYe2k?... #Leibniz #philosophy #PhilSky

TODAY! Mon. June 16 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "Black Stories of Freedom" James B. Haile III offers new ways to grasp the implications of Black freedom, and invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and and space, our identities and ourselves. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/black...

Sunday read: "Violence and Disappearance: Knowing and Seeing" Terrell Carver examines how violence communicates through visibility and how disappearance as a strategy upends this logic. How can we relate to violence created through erasure? #Philosophy #moralphil

Join Pireeni Sundaralingam, Nicholas Halmi, and Audrey Borowski discussing the impacts and ramifications of AI on human creativity. Tues. June 17 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK Should we revisit the concept of author? Resist, capitulate, or cooperate? #Philosophy #philtech #PhilEvent

Meet James B. Haile III, author of "The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom" on Mon. June 16 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK Looking at Black life through the lens of speculative fiction to help explore alternative worlds and spaces. #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/black...

ICYMI - "The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois" Robert Gooding-William with Brandon Terry on what beauty means to Du Bois and why it matters in the struggle against white supremacy. Beauty can ward off despair by showing the oppressed they can alter their social world. #Philosophy #philhist

Join us Tues. June 17, 2pm ET / 7pm UK for "AI and Human Creativity" Pireeni Sundaralingam and Nicholas Halmi with Audrey Borowski Is AI opening up new avenues of perception and exploration or diminishing them? Is co-creation the future? #Philosophy #philtech #aesthetics

Join us Mon. June 16, 2pm ET / 7pm UK for "Black Stories of Freedom" James B. Haile III will be in conversation with Alessandra Raengo to explore how Black speculative fiction responds to enslavement, racism, colonialism, and capitalism. #Philosophy #philhist

TODAY! Mon. June 9 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK Robert Gooding-Williams, Yale philosophy professor, will reconstruct WEB Du Bois' defence of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy. #Philosophy #PhilEvent #PhilHist Register:

Sunday read: "The Abolitionism-Reformism Spectrum" Criminologist Jason Warr, in conversation with Andy West, offers an even-handed assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of both positions regarding prisons, along with some reflections on the morality of punishment. #Philosophy #moralphil

Robert Gooding-Williams, author of "Democracy and Beauty," will shine a light on W.E.B Du Bois' attempts to answer questions around the political function of beauty during the decade surrounding WWI. Join us! Mon. June 9 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK Register FREE: www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/the-p...

ICYMI: "A Social History of Analytic Philosophy" Christoph Schuringa, with Tzuchien Tho, discusses analytic philosophers' political activism, how the social context influenced them, and how analytic philosophy de-radicalises other discourses. #Philosophy #philhist www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xKz...

Join us Mon. June 9 - 2pm EG / 7pm UK for "The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois" Robert Gooding-Williams in conversation with Brandon Terry Beauty has a distinctive role to play in the struggle against white supremacy. #Philosophy Register here to watch the discussion and ask questions:

TODAY: Mon. June 2 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK "A Social History of Analytic Philosophy" Hear Christoph Schuringa in conversation with Tzuchien Tho on how to understand analytic philosophy's enduring power as the ideology of the status quo. #Philosophy #philevent #philhist Register: