What do new pharmacological and technological developments mean for women's liberation? Join Genomics PhD student Ruxandra Teslo to discuss the value of progress from a feminist perspective. Contemporary feminism often…
Join Phil Filippak for his series on critical rationalism and major ideas from David Deutsch’s book The Beginning of Infinity. Newcomers welcome! What makes us creative? How do we boost our creativity? And why the so-called AI models haven’t succeeded in building good “maps of the territory”? While we certainly cannot answer these questions (otherwise… Continue reading The Beginning of Infinity: (Artificial) Creativity
Join game master Lukas Rosenstock for an evening of virtual boardgames with fellow community members. Let's bring, show and try our favorite digital boardgame adaptions and online casual games together…
Join Topi Heikkerö to explore how to think more independently. In this salon, we get together to take the next step in liberating our own thinking. We’ll read Schopenhauer’s short…
Interested in cultivating your inner poet? Join us for Poems for Our Time where we'll slow down, explore contemporary poetry, and connect with our creativity. Hosted by writer, workshop facilitator, and meditation teacher, Grace Bialecki. Poetry is a place of solace, a place of mystery, a place where we can delve deeper into live’s questions and…
Join Peter Isztin and Bronwyn Williams in exploring the economics of the changing gender landscape in work, dating, marriage, and more. The past half century has seen huge changes in…
Join host Joseline Yu for a discussion on Ovid's Metamorphoses to unravel the threads of chaos, love and lust weaved throughout the narrative poem's mythical tales, as part of the Western Canon Book Club series. Ovid's Metamorphoses stitches together various myths to create an all-encompassing story of the changes in history since the creation of the…
Have you wondered how you'll navigate a world after AI has fully taken root? Join Oliver King to discuss how we might expect to see larger economic and technological forces play out in our own lives. The ability to create and carry out good works is fundamental to our humanity, and a necessary ingredient to…
Join theology professor and author Matthew Bowman (The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill) in conversation with novelist and theologian Tara Isabella Burton (Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians) for a wide-ranging salon about alien abduction, the New Age, and the countercultural roots of contemporary American spirituality. Today fewer and fewer…
Join Alex Criddle for the sixth salon in the Breakthroughs series and explore the evolution and development of human valuation and moral systems. After exploring the role political structures play in human progress, we'll look at the moral dimension of human progress. Do political systems facilitate breakthroughs in morality? We'll trace the moral trajectories of…
Entrepreneur, death doula, and adventure-seeker. Driven by her curiosities and inquisitive nature, Maura McInerney-Rowley founded Death Archetypes, Hello, Mortal, and Mauri (an end-of-life consultancy) to transform the denial of death into a celebration of life. Are you ready to embrace the reality of your mortality? Honoring our shared mortality can bring us together and awaken…
Join John T. Maier, a philosopher and psychotherapist (PhD/LICSW) based in Boston, and the author of a forthcoming book on the theory of addiction. This is the first episode in…
