What makes a question worth asking?
Not every question opens something up. Some clarify, some distract, some unsettle, and some reshape how we see the world. This week at Scoundrels, we’ll consider what gives a question its force and why certain questions stay with us longer than others.
What is a hallucination?
A hallucination can seem immediate, vivid, and real, which makes it philosophically slippery. This week’s Scoundrels discussion turns toward perception, experience, and the uneasy line between what is there, what is imagined, and what the mind can generate on its own.
What is “the State” for?
We talk about “the State” constantly, usually with strong feelings and blurry definitions. This Scoundrels conversation asks what the state is supposed to be for in the first place: protection, order, freedom, welfare, power, or something else entirely.
April Board Meeting
April Board Meeting
Philosofarian’s monthly board meeting is where we review organizational updates, discuss priorities, and make decisions that support our public programs and long-term direction. Board meetings help keep the practical side of Philosofarian aligned with its mission, values, and growing work in the community. The agenda for April is here.
What is Home?
What is home, really? Join philosopher Seth Tichenor at Fort George for an evening of reflection on belonging, memory, identity, and the strange human pull of home. Free and open to all.
Why do people hold on to zombie ideas?
Some ideas should have collapsed by now, yet they keep shambling through public life, private belief, and everyday habit. This week at Scoundrels, we’ll explore why certain notions refuse to die, even after they’ve been challenged, disproven, or outgrown.
What is community?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
How accurate can language be?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Last class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the (post) Modern Era
Is there a heirarchy to morality?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Seventh class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the Romantic Era
What is the Point of Nonviolence?
Nonviolence gets invoked constantly. Sometimes as moral high ground, other times as strategy, as identity, even as an accusation. Philosofarian's Seth Tichenor brings the question to Fort George: what does nonviolence actually mean, what does it demand, and does the concept hold up under scrutiny?
Can music express truth?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Sixth class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Aesthetics in the European Enlightenment.
What exactly is death?
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Fifth class of the Second Series.
Today’s focus is on Ancient and Medieval Indian Aesthetic Thought
Scoundrels
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics?
Ancient and Medieval Japanese Aesthetic Thought
Scoundrels
Scoundrels is a weekly group philosophy conversations. Each week a new topic. Every week a chance to wonder together.
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? Ancient and Medieval Chinese Aesthetics
Towards a More Perfect Union: Can a Society Outgrow the Ideas that Founded it?
The day after What the Constitution Means to Me closes, join Philosofarian and members of the cast for a 30-minute primer and a facilitated conversation. When the play asks “abolish or amend?”, we’ll open a third door: widening the frame, testing the assumptions, and asking what a “more perfect union” could require now.
What is the relationship between comedy and philosophy?
What’s the relationship between comedy and philosophy?
Aesthetics Part 2: Let's talk Traditions
How do Different Cultures and Traditions Think about Art and Aesthetics? First Class of the Second Series.
The Story of Buddhism in China
How did China Make Sense of Buddhism?
(Class 3 of 11)
Today will focus on the rise of Mahayana Buddhism and Prajñaparimita.
This course is taught through Encore Learn - Exploring new concepts of retirement education.
Where is the healthy balance between openness and restriction of information in society?
Where is the healthy balance between openness and restriction of information in society?
Can Latin America Teach us how Power Hides?
Power doesn’t always announce itself. Kenny Knowlton explores how it hides in ordinary life, shaping what feels normal, inevitable, or hard to change.
Aesthetics: Philosophy for People Who Art
What does it mean to be creative?
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