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November 2022Submission Deadline: TBAThe title and theme of this workshop are TBD. But keep an eye out for announcements with details and official date!
Sat, Apr 23via Zoom and YouTube livestreamPhilosophy can equip us with the tools to manage dark times. This workshop aims to highlight how philosophy can brighten our lives.
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Thu, Apr 28Johnathan FlowersI draw on John Dewey to understand hope as the felt sense of possibility in the world. To be hopeful, therefore, is to have a sense of positive possibility; hoplessness is a sense of restricted possibility or restricted capacity to make the possible actual.
Sat, Apr 23Thomas BonnIn some of Plato's myths, incurable people suffer endless torment. In others, they don't. The Neoplatonists rightly rejected the notion that Plato held anyone to be incurable. Plato's actual sketch of the soul's endless journey (given e.g. in the Myth of Er) is oddly comforting.
Sat, Apr 23Blakely PhillipsWhat is believing in yourself? Using Evans's theory of pretense I argue that believing in oneself is a pretense that when successful undergoes a 'game-to-reality shift': the belief held as a pretense becomes true in the real world.
Sat, Apr 23Jonathan McKinneyAs the global ecological, psychological, and economic crises worsen by the day, it would seem that hope for life on our planet is dimming. Luckily for us, human beings (& philosophers) are profoundly stupid. In this coffee hour, we will sacrifice our brains for a glimmer of hope?
Sat, Apr 23Bella-Rose Kelly | comments by Joe GloverMicroaggression causes epistemic harm to marginalized subjects. They have cumulative effects that diminish the epistemic confidence of the subject. Communities, I argue, can help mitigate such harms by fostering the subject's epistemic confidence and providing her with hope.
Sat, Apr 23Philip Schwarz | comments by Laura NelsonI outline a reading of Alasdair MacIntyre to show how relationships of dependence shape our lives. Under the right conditions, these relationships are transformative experiences. They become meaningful and therefore valuable to us. This constitutes special moral demands.
Sat, Apr 23Trevor AdamsHope theorists say that if S’s hope is to be rational, it is a necessary condition on hope that their subsequent belief and desire be justified. I want argue that the belief component can sometimes be unjustified, and yet the hope will remain justified.
Sat, Apr 23Michael R. SpicherAesthetic experience is a basic motivation for human action, which in part leads to flourishing. It is still necessary (possibly more so) during dark times, as illustrated by people, like Primo Levi.
Sat, Apr 23Leo LepianoFacing multiple global crises, what room is there, if any, for optimism? Is it ontologically correct? Is it psychologically possible? Can we make room for happiness without relinquishing responsibility? And does philosophy harm or help our efforts to answer these questions?- Sat, Apr 23via Zoom and YouTube livestreamPhilosophy can equip us with the tools to manage dark times. This workshop aims to highlight how philosophy can brighten our lives.
- Sat, Apr 23via Zoom and YouTube livestreamPhilosophy can equip us with the tools to manage dark times. This workshop aims to highlight how philosophy can brighten our lives.
Sat, Oct 30October 30-31, 2021In this spooky, special edition of Cogtweeto, we dove into the inky philosophical depths of horror, sci fi, fantasy, magic and witchcraft, and all things weird!
Sat, Aug 21August 21, 2021In this second installment of hot takes, folks from Philosophy Twitter made their best case for even more unpopular and (too-)easily dismissed philosophical views.
Sat, Jul 17July 17, 2021In the first of two workshops in this series, folks from Philosophy Twitter made their best case for some unpopular and (too-)easily dismissed philosophical views.
Sat, Mar 20March 20, 2021In this workshop, folks from Philosophy Twitter explored whether, and how, ancient philosophy can help us address contemporary problems.
Sat, Jan 30January 30, 2021In our debut workshop, folks from Philosophy Twitter taught us about philosophers or philosophical traditions that most of us (probably) didn't know –– but should have.
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