Schedule
Here are all the up and coming enquiry topics and events.
| Topic | Venue | Presenter | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethics of Genetic Engineering? | The Black Toad (Hoylake) | Bernadette | 23/10/2025 | 14:00 |
| The Black Toad, Micro-pub and bottle-shop in Hoylake specialising in craft beer and cask ale: 32 Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 2AF. Every 2nd + 4th Thursday of month (2pm start!) - All welcome! | ||||
| Choosing future topics party | Pocket Cafe/Bar (City centre) | The group | 23/10/2025 | 18:00 |
| The Pocket Cafe/Bar. A swanky cafe bar in town. Come along to PIP's newest early evening group ... 98 Paradise Street (by Bus terminus) City Centre, Liverpool, L1 4AA. | ||||
| Choosing future topics | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | The group | 27/10/2025 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. 69 Dale Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 2HJ | ||||
| Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way | Lock & Quay (Bootle) | Mike Naidoo | 27/10/2025 | 19:00 |
| The Lock & Quay: 2 Irlam Road, Bootle, L20 4AH …. Bootle’s first community pub, owned and managed by the community – All welcome! | ||||
| OPEN FORUM | Flanagan's Irish Pub | Everyone | 28/10/2025 | 18:30 |
| Flanagan's Irish Pub is in Church Road, Waterloo. Turn left out of Waterloo railway station and walk down in the direction of river until you come to Church Road on your left, pub is on your right about half way down. All welcome! | ||||
| Your Philosophic Positions? | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Open | 28/10/2025 | 19:00 |
| What Philosophic positions do you take - do you know? Are you a Materialist or an Idealist? A Moral Relativist or Absolutist (hold to a fixed value)? An Aesthetic Objectivist or Subjectivist? On Freewill: a Libertarian or a Compatibilist? .... Keith's Wine Bar: 107 Lark Lane, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 8UR | ||||
| Chosen on the evening! | Paris Philo Cafe (Online English) | Michael M | 29/10/2025 | 18:00 |
| To join tonight's session (6pm) Copy + Paste join zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6928143463?pwd=L2JsWlJnbmNEc2EraTdjQnJXVkx6Zz09 … Every Wednesday of the month – all welcome! …... | ||||
| What is Consciousness? | Friends Meeting House | Liverpool Humanists | 31/10/2025 | 19:00 |
| Voltaire Lecture 2025, in which Professor Anil Seth will set out an approach to understanding consciousness, and whether AI could have it. See link here for details (copy + paste) https://humanists.uk/local-group/liverpool/ | ||||
| Hannah Arendt and Evil | Saturday at Seven (international) | Dulcie - The Group | 01/11/2025 | 19:00 |
| Part ONE a discussion of a brief biography of Hannah Arendt , commenting on the Contemporary Relevance of her work, her early life and education, Political Awareness and Exile , her Life in America and Intellectual Work , Jewish Identity and Experience of the Holocaust, Statelessness,homelessness Eichman and the Banality of Evil and her legacy. Part TWO Using Pips philosophical methodology we will enter into an enquiry focussing on the following question :- “When people cause harm by simply ‘doing their job’ or following social norms, does this reflect Hannah Arendt’s notion of the ‘banality of evil,’ and does this suggest that evil today is more ordinary than monstrous?” Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85456891475?pwd=NBGoEglNGbwowKKUy660FZQ8b9w9_N.1 Meeting ID: 854 5689 1475 Passcode: Pips2223! | ||||
| Reality? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Open forum | 05/11/2025 | 13:00 |
| The Rose & Crown, a popular community pub: 57 The Village, Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, CH63 7PL ..... Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month ... All welcome! | ||||
| Chosen on the evening! | Paris Philo Cafe (Online English) | Michael M | 05/11/2025 | 18:00 |
| To join tonight's session (6pm) Copy + Paste join zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6928143463?pwd=L2JsWlJnbmNEc2EraTdjQnJXVkx6Zz09 … Every Wednesday of the month – all welcome! …... | ||||
| Is AI a blessing or a curse? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Open forum | 05/11/2025 | 19:30 |
| Oats & Honey, 205 Monton Road, Monton, Eccles, Salford, Manchester, M30 9PN. We meet every 1st Wednesday of the month. All welcome! | ||||
| Justice as Fairness | The Black Toad (Hoylake) | Mark | 13/11/2025 | 14:00 |
| The Black Toad, Micro-pub and bottle-shop in Hoylake specialising in craft beer and cask ale: 32 Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 2AF. Every 2nd + 4th Thursday of month (2pm start!) - All welcome! | ||||
| Do we need a reason to be in life? | The Park (Eccles) | Open forum | 19/11/2025 | 19:30 |
| The Park, Monton Road, Eccles, Manchester, M30 9QD. We meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month (&.30pm) All welcome! | ||||
| Intersectionality | The Greyhound (Ormskirk) | Geraldine | 20/11/2025 | 19:30 |
| To what extent is one group’s fight everyone’s fight? | ||||
| Dignity | Saturday at Seven (international) | Dorothy / The Group | 22/11/2025 | 19:00 |
| ALL WELCOME “Is dignity an essential part of living a good human life, and can our attempts to ‘help’ others sometimes undermine it?” Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85456891475?pwd=NBGoEglNGbwowKKUy660FZQ8b9w9_N.1 Meeting ID: 854 5689 1475 Passcode: Pips2223! | ||||
| The Imagination: what is it? | The Black Toad (Hoylake) | Open forum | 27/11/2025 | 14:00 |
| Imagination: is it a faculty, or just the effects of something else? The Black Toad, Micro-pub and bottle-shop in Hoylake specialising in craft beer and cask ale: 32 Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 2AF. Every 2nd + 4th Thursday of month (2pm start!) - All welcome! | ||||
| What harsh truths do we ignore as individuals? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Open forum | 03/12/2025 | 19:30 |
| Oats & Honey, 205 Monton Road, Monton, Eccles, Salford, Manchester, M30 9PN. We meet every 1st Wednesday of the month. All welcome! | ||||
| To be arranged | The Black Toad (Hoylake) | The group | 11/12/2025 | 14:00 |
| The Black Toad, Micro-pub and bottle-shop in Hoylake specialising in craft beer and cask ale: 32 Market Street, Hoylake, Wirral, CH47 2AF. Every 2nd + 4th Thursday of month (2pm start!) - All welcome! | ||||
| Does the law make people unjust? | The Park (Eccles) | Open forum | 17/12/2025 | 19:30 |
| The Park, Monton Road, Eccles, Manchester, M30 9QD. We meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month (&.30pm) All welcome! | ||||
| Can we ever truly know ourselves? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Open forum | 07/01/2026 | 18:30 |
| How can we ever be truly certain of who we are, as individuals? Oats & Honey, 205 Monton Road, Monton, Eccles, Salford, Manchester, M30 9PN. We meet every 1st Wednesday of the month. All welcome! | ||||
| When is a crime not a crime? | The Park (Eccles) | Open forum | 21/01/2026 | 19:30 |
| The Park, Monton Road, Eccles, Manchester, M30 9QD. We meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month (&.30pm) All welcome! | ||||
| Can you trust the word of a drunk person? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Open forum | 04/02/2026 | 19:30 |
| Oats & Honey, 205 Monton Road, Monton, Eccles, Salford, Manchester, M30 9PN. We meet every 1st Wednesday of the month. All welcome! | ||||