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  • Philosophy Book Club: Timaeus

    There's a new book club in town. In Philosophy Book Club, our aim is to examine the nature of thought itself. We'll investigate both classic and contemporary philosophical and essayistic…

  • Public Philosophy Week: The Ethics of Housing

    Public Philosophy Week is upon us once again, a time for lively discussions that encourage collective reflection on life's most pressing questions throughout Chittenden County. This year, the Pierson Library…

  • Public Philosophy Week: The Tao of Ethics

    We will explore the "easy" Taoist approach to natural ethics—an elegant morality without supernatural authority. Taoist “worship of nature” is really veneration of the natural way of things and emphasizes…

  • Philosophy Book Club: S.S.O.T.B.M.E.

    From Plato to Ta-Nehisi Coates, and now a foundational text of chaos magick whose intellectual (and perhaps cosmic) depth is matched only by its accessibility. S.S.O.T.B.M.E. by Ramsey Dukes, AKA…

  • Philosophy Book Club: The Analects

    This month, Philosophy Book Club is going old school with a classic text of ancient Chinese philosophy The Analects. Composed during the Warring States period (475–221 BC) and finalized during…

  • Philosophy Book Club: Plato’s Apology

    By popular demand, the next book that our coterie of armchair philosophers is set to read is an oldie and a goodie. It's Plato's Apology! And we may forgive him.…

  • Philosophy Book Club: Cyclonopedia

    Philosophy Book Club is back and have we got a doozy for you this month! The seminal text of theory-fiction by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials.…