Schedule
Here are all the up and coming enquiry topics and events.
| Topic | Venue | Presenter | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Is there such a thing as human nature? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Robert | 29/06/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Trillionaires ... | Talking Allowed in Leeds (Online) | Derrick | 29/06/2026 | 14:00 |
| Introduced by Derrick. Join Zoom Meeting (Copy + Paste) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88426771632?pwd=YL9rhHWHEBwYuczUE5fkAnaM8cBoPp.1 ... Meeting chat link https://us02web.zoom.us/launch/jc/88426771632 ... Meeting ID: 884 2677 1632 ... Passcode: 367826 | ||||
| Fear ? | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Martin | 29/06/2026 | 19:00 |
| Keith's Wine Bar, 107 Lark Lane, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 8UR | ||||
| OPEN FORUM | Flanagan's Irish Pub | The group | 30/06/2026 | 18:30 |
| Flanagan's Irish Pub, Church Road, off South Road, Waterloo. Turn left out of Waterloo railway station and walk down in the direction of river, Church Road is on your left. All welcome! | ||||
| What do we mean by 'Behave Yourself'? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Jack | 01/07/2026 | 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 | 01/07/2026 | 18:00 |
| What happens at a Café Philo? We choose a topic from among those that the participants propose and we discuss it in an orderly fashion: Reserve and go to the Online Zoom address just before 6pm. Link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6928143463?pwd=L2JsWlJnbmNEc2EraTdjQnJXVkx6... All welcome, Michael. | ||||
| PIP's Summer Festival | Brain Charity (Liverpool) | Merseyside committee | 04/07/2026 | 09:30 |
| PIP's Summer Festival will take place at The Brain Charity on Norton Street, Liverpool City centre. Members attending the festival, after hearing short talks, will take part in table discussions. It is a day long event starting at 9.30 ending around 4.30/5pm. There will be a buffet lunch of sandwiches various. Morning tea and coffee, and through the day. | ||||
| What is the good life? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Sean | 06/07/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Choosing future topics! | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Open forum | 06/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| Keith's Wine Bar, 107 Lark Lane, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 8UR | ||||
| Post-Humanism | The Dee View Inn (Heswall) | Open forum | 07/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| (7pm) At The Dee View Inn, 2 Dee View Road, Heswall, Wirral. CH60 0DH ... All Welcome! | ||||
| Dangerous Pursuits | Hightown Hotel | Jan | 07/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| Can JS Mill’s ‘On Liberty’ help us determine the ethical balance between liberty and recklessness? Stimulus: https://trillian.tv/pips/dangerous.pdf .... The Hightown Hotel (L38 0BA) is right next to Hightown station. For any enquiries please join the WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Il203LsqbTm9zy5qcFE8Wr?mode=gi_t | ||||
| Foucault's Panopticon | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Szepan | 07/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| Michel Foucault used the 18th century Panopticon style prison as a metaphor for modern social control. Keith's Wine Bar, 107 Lark Lane, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 8UR | ||||
| What is Justice? | The Cock Hotel (Wellington) | The group | 08/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| The Cock Hotel PIP group will now be meeting on the second Wednesday of the month, with just the odd change of date when we can't book the room | ||||
| Othering? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Dom | 13/07/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Is Love, of all Types, the Meaning of Life?’ | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | THINK Huddersfield | 13/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| Is Love, of all Types, the Meaning of Life? To help us think about this topic in advance the videos on YouTube about C. S. Lewis’s The Four Loves radio broadcasts and book would be a good starter. Some YouTube videos are recordings of Lewis’s radio broadcasts; some are in other people’s voices, and some have live cartoon doodles! There is also a free audiobook of The Four Loves. Enjoy! THINK Huddersfield at The Sportsman pub, Monday 13th July (7pm) | ||||
| Why vote in a post-truth society? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Open forum | 15/07/2026 | 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! | ||||
| How far is behaviour over pathologised? | The Park Hotel (Eccles) | Tom | 15/07/2026 | 19:30 |
| The Park Hotel, 142 Monton Rd, Eccles, Manchester M30 9QD – All welcome! | ||||
| Moral Outrage: Justice or Aggression? | **Saturday@Seven** | Dulcie | 18/07/2026 | 19:00 |
| EVERYONE WELCOME TO SATURDAY AT SEVEN. BRING A FRIEND. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85456891475?pwd=NBGoEglNGbwowKKUy660FZQ8b9w9_N.1 Meeting ID: 854 5689 1475 Passcode: Pips2223! | ||||
| Can broadmindedness be a problem? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Vince | 19/07/2026 | 19:30 |
| A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost) - Oats & Honey Coffee Shop, 205 Monton Road, Eccles, Salford, M30 9PN | ||||
| Do utopias lead to dystopias? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Martin | 20/07/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Society of the Spectacle ... | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Alan H | 27/07/2026 | 13:00 |
| Society of the Spectacle: is what you see what you get? The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Is limiting knowledge to merely language based propositions or arguments a profound mistake ? | **Saturday@Seven** | Gordon | 01/08/2026 | 19:00 |
| 'Some people think that language goes all the way down, but I think that language barely scratches the surface, and furthermore those scratches distort the reality of what we experience'. EVERYONE WELCOME TO SATURDAY AT SEVEN. BRING A FRIEND. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85456891475?pwd=NBGoEglNGbwowKKUy660FZQ8b9w9_N.1 Meeting ID: 854 5689 1475 Passcode: Pips2223! | ||||
| The Anxious Generation ... | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Bob | 03/08/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Anxious Generation (by Jonathan Haight) The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| What parts of humanity are still natural? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Open forum | 05/08/2026 | 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! | ||||
| Is revolution acceptable in modern society? | Oats & Honey Coffee shop (Monton) | Trish | 05/08/2026 | 19:30 |
| Oats & Honey Coffee Shop, 205 Monton Road, Eccles, Salford, M30 9PN | ||||
| Why do we punish people? | The Cock Hotel (Wellington) | Open forum | 12/08/2026 | 19:00 |
| The Cock Hotel PIP group will now be meeting on the second Wednesday of the month, with just the odd change of date when we can't book the room | ||||
| Is Belief or Judgement a better guide to life? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Sean | 17/08/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Is it healthy how we engage with celebrity? | The Park Hotel (Eccles) | James | 19/08/2026 | 19:30 |
| The Park Hotel, 142 Monton Rd, Eccles, Manchester M30 9QD – All welcome! | ||||
| Universal Basic Income? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Open forum | 24/08/2026 | 13:00 |
| Can we survive on universal basic income? The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| How do we spend our 4000 weeks? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Open forum | 31/08/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| Has progress on AI stalled? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Sean | 07/09/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||
| You only live once! | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Open forum | 14/09/2026 | 13:00 |
| The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. Dale Street, Liverpool City centre | ||||