Schedule
Here are all the up and coming enquiry topics and events.
| Topic | Venue | Presenter | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town Planning or Social Control? | The City PIP group (L'pool) | Siobhan | 20/01/2020 | 14:00 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | The Vernon (LIPs) | Derek | 20/01/2020 | 18:15 |
| David Hume (Course) | The Ship & Mitre (upstairs) | Sean Timmins | 20/01/2020 | 19:00 |
| Transgenderism in Sports – Does it confer undue advantage? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 20/01/2020 | 19:30 |
| An Introduction to David Hume | Frodsham Community Centre | Derek Meakin | 21/01/2020 | 10:30 |
| Born and educated in Edinburgh, David Hume (1711-76) was a brilliant product of the Scottish Enlightenment and an influential figure in European philosophy. Kant, for instance,claimed that Hume had awakened him from his "dogmatic slumber." Like all Enlightenment thinkers, Hume recognized the importance in our lives of reason. But he argued that reason has serious limitations, not least that it is the slave of the passions - meaning that our conduct is driven by emotions and that reason is a mere instrument in that process. Hume also argued that there are serious limits to human knowledge. Turning to ethics, be rejected the idea that all moral values derive from reason and claimed that most of them arise form such human sentiments as sympathy and compassion (though he admitted there are "artificial" values such as social justice). Hume's philosophy was profoundly challenging and remains so today. Enquiries:johnsonvlntn@aol.com | ||||
| Safety | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Tom L | 21/01/2020 | 18:30 |
| Thought versus Intuition... | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Open forum | 21/01/2020 | 19:15 |
| Are the products of thought better than those of intuition? | ||||
| Architecture, and how it affects us. | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Martin | 22/01/2020 | 13:00 |
| Animal Rights? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Open forum | 23/01/2020 | 19:15 |
| Human impact on Ecosphere | Piazza Cafe Bar (Liverpool) | Peter McNaughton Friday forum | 24/01/2020 | 14:00 |
| Gender Fluidity? | The City PIP group (L'pool) | Open forum | 27/01/2020 | 14:00 |
| David Hume (Course) | The Ship & Mitre (upstairs) | Sean Timmins | 27/01/2020 | 19:00 |
| OPEN FORUM | The Victoria (Waterloo) | All Members | 28/01/2020 | 18:30 |
| Carpe Diem! (?) | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Open forum | 28/01/2020 | 19:15 |
| Open Forum | The Dog & Partridge (Sheffield) | Rosie | 02/02/2020 | 19:45 |
| Philosophy of History | The City PIP group (L'pool) | Peter | 03/02/2020 | 14:00 |
| Gender Identity? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Ron | 03/02/2020 | 19:00 |
| Gender identity - myth or reality? | ||||
| TBA | Ramsbottom (Rose & Crown) | Rob | 03/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Soul: Have we got one - what is it? | Ramsbottom (Rose & Crown) | All | 03/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Artifical Idiot | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Tommy | 04/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| The Dunning-Kruger Effect! | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Ross | 04/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. | ||||
| The 9 Truths... | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Richard | 05/02/2020 | 13:00 |
| Restrict speech? See note. | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 05/02/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Lordable attempts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities" Obama 2012. Discuss. | ||||
| Political Economy and Spirituality | Lime Kiln (Concert Square) | Russell | 10/02/2020 | 18:15 |
| Paganism | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Karen | 11/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| Is genuine democracy possible? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Open forum | 13/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| Winter Symposium! | The Vernon (Arms) | Merseyside PIPs | 16/02/2020 | 12:00 |
| The Vernon, Rigby's, Shenanigans! | ||||
| Embers | The Vernon (Arms) | Jose | 17/02/2020 | 18:15 |
| Sandor Marai novel. | ||||
| All Change | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Paul T | 18/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| How Technology affects Philosophy | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Martin | 19/02/2020 | 13:00 |
| How do we prioritise conflicting rights? (Who's rights are more right?) | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Morality and Marketing | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Veganism? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | open forum | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| This is the Young Philosophy group meeting. Not to be confused with the group that meet every second Thursday of the month. | ||||
| OPEN FORUM | The Victoria (Waterloo) | ALL | 25/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| Sloth the unacknowleged virtue! | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Edna | 27/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| The Environmental Crisis | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Howard | 02/03/2020 | 19:00 |
| The Environmental Crisis - what should be done? | ||||
| Counselling? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Open forum | 04/03/2020 | 13:00 |
| When is it appropriate to keep secrets? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 04/03/2020 | 19:30 | |
| The ideas of Yuval Noah Harari? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Francis | 12/03/2020 | 19:15 |
| How do we stay human in a digital landscape? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 18/03/2020 | 19:30 | |
| What is the point of a university degree? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 18/03/2020 | 19:30 |
| Plato's Republic | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Paul D | 26/03/2020 | 19:15 |
| Should animals have rights? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 01/04/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Conspiracy? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 06/04/2020 | 19:00 |
| Which conspiracy narratives are true? | ||||
| Mind and Matter – Is matter all there is? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 15/04/2020 | 19:30 |
| What motivates us to be moral? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 11/05/2020 | 19:00 |
| What can motivate virtuous conduct once the fear of punishment in hell, or in rebirth, or by physical or capital punishment has gone? | ||||
| Is lying a prerequisite of modern social living? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 20/05/2020 | 19:30 |
| What's good/bad about Huddersfield? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 01/06/2020 | 19:00 |
| What is good and what is bad about Huddersfield, the Colne Valley and Calderdale? What could be done to make them better? | ||||
| Information as property and the possibility of privacy | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 17/06/2020 | 19:30 |
| Information as property and the possibility of privacy | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 17/06/2020 | 19:30 |
| When does a machine obtain moral recognition? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 15/07/2020 | 19:30 |
| Transhumanism: Can body modification ever go too far? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 19/08/2020 | 19:30 |
| Is all work prostitution? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 16/09/2020 | 19:30 |
| Is democracy even possible? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 21/11/2020 | 19:30 |