An intentionally small weekly gathering of philosophical investigators, unreliable witnesses and amateur detectives of reality. Each week, we open a new case: 1–3 philosophical questions suggested by attendees or chosen by the host. We’ll examine the evidence, interrogate assumptions, test suspicious intuitions and occasionally accuse an innocent thought of something it didn’t do. The case […]
Where political convictions are questioned, ideologies interrogated, and certainty is treated with considerable suspicion. An intentionally small weekly gathering of political philosophers, ideological misfits, constitutional sceptics and amateur architects of utopia. The idea of the event is to examine 1–3 questions exploring politics, power and the peculiar ways humans attempt to govern themselves; From liberalism, […]
Why do you love that chair, that song, that slightly impractical pair of shoes, or that particular café — while someone else looks at the very same thing and wonders what on earth you see in it? Our preferences can feel intensely personal, almost instinctive, yet they emerge from a curious mixture of experience, memory, […]