Recurring Event Philosophical Breakfast Club

Philosophical Breakfast Club

Join philosopher Arkadiusz Synowczyk for a free, members-only, weekly series of casual philosophical discussions over coffee!  Inspired by the historic Philosophical Breakfast Club, each Wednesday, 12 PM ET, we gather to hang out to explore philosophical questions of our choice in a casual atmosphere. Whether you want to jump in just for a short or…

What AI Teaches Us about Being Human

In this salon, Chad Woodford will explore the utopian and dystopian narratives coming out of Silicon Valley, including the presumption that some sort of superintelligence is immanent, using that as an invitation to explore exactly what it is to be human. Chad is an embodied philosopher, technology attorney, and AI researcher interested in a deeply…

Emma by Jane Austen: Invention of the Modern Novel

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Writer Henry Oliver continues the Western Canon Book Club series with a salon about one of the greatest ever novels. Jane Austen is often seen as a writer of romantic comedies and social manners. But she was also a great innovator. Emma is her most important novel and shows her at her most experimental. Her development of narrative technique…

Mario Vargas Llosa on Latin American Politics

Join Romina Sarmiento, a distinguished political scientist, and Eloy Fisher, an economist and sociologist, for a FREE salon on leadership and policy inspired by Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America's most influential thinkers. This salon, part of the Georgetown LALP series, offers a deep dive into Vargas Llosa's provocative memoir, The Call of the…