Schedule
Here are all the up and coming enquiry topics and events.
| Topic | Venue | Presenter | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chosen on the evening! | Paris Philo Cafe (Online English) | Michael M | 06/11/2025 | 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! …... | ||||
| A I part 2 - The Social Consequences | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Open forum | 10/11/2025 | 13:00 |
| Hi everyone, we looked at AI and Consciousness last week, today we're looking into the consequences of AI on society. The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. 69 Dale Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 2HJ | ||||
| Chosen on the day! | Talking Allowed in Leeds (Online) | TAiL | 10/11/2025 | 14:00 |
| The next TAiL meeting via Zoom is on the 10th of November. Talking Allowed in Leeds, Join Zoom Meeting - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86855184032?pwd=hwMsiypT3Hsd2PEZf9e8YtBiLgCNk7.1 | ||||
| Solitude | Lock & Quay (Bootle) | Mike Nidoo | 10/11/2025 | 19:00 |
| The Lock & Quay: 2 Irlam Road, Bootle, L20 4AH …. Bootle’s boss little boozer, owned and managed by the community – All welcome! | ||||
| Is Life a Dream? | Flanagan's Irish Pub | Tommy | 11/11/2025 | 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 the Church Road on your left. Walk down Church Road and the pub is on your right about half way down. All welcome! | ||||
| Paradoxes: Part 2 | The Victoria (Birmingham) | Chris B | 12/11/2025 | 19:15 |
| When Logic Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson - The Victoria , 48 John Bright St, Birmingham B1 1BN, Back by popular demand — we’re returning to the wonderfully twisted world of paradoxes: those mind-bending puzzles where logic turns on itself, reason ties itself in knots, and every answer just leads to more questions. | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| 4 women bring philosophy back to life! | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Evan | 17/11/2025 | 13:00 |
| Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Elizabeth Anscombe—challenged the dominant philosophical trend of logical positivism to revive the field of moral philosophy. The Vernon Arms: 69 Dale Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 2HJ | ||||
| The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass) | The Vernon (LIPs) | LIPS | 17/11/2025 | 18:30 |
| Literature in Pubs at The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. 69 Dale Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 2HJ | ||||
| Chosen on the evening! | The Cross Keys (Leeds) | TAiL | 17/11/2025 | 19:00 |
| The next TAiL meeting via Zoom is on the 10th of November. Talking Allowed in Leeds, Join Zoom Meeting - On the 17th of November we will meet in person at the Cross Keys. | ||||
| Hegel the Inconsistent | Flanagan's Irish Pub | Tom L | 18/11/2025 | 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 the Church Road on your left. Walk down Church Road and the pub is on your right about half way down. All welcome! | ||||
| Alienation + Hyper Consumerism | Marx Study Group (Online) | Peter | 19/11/2025 | 18:00 |
| At the meeting, we will continue with Part 3 of our programme of study on alienation and look at Manifestations of Alienation. The session will deal with Alienation manifest in hyper-consumerism... Marx study group: 6 to 8pm on jitsi (Copy + Paste) https://meet.guifi.net/NewJitsiLpoolSocialistStudyGroup | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| Mindfullness? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Joanne | 24/11/2025 | 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 | ||||
| Idenity | Lock & Quay (Bootle) | Bernadette | 24/11/2025 | 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 | 25/11/2025 | 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 the Church Road on your left. Walk down Church Road and the pub is on your right about half way down. All welcome! | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| Moral Relativism + Authoritarianism | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Alan | 01/12/2025 | 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 | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| Cowardice? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Dom | 08/12/2025 | 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 | ||||
| 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 Utopianism always lead to Distopianism? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Martin S | 15/12/2025 | 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 | ||||
| The Archtect's Apprentice. (Elif Shafak) | The Vernon (LIPs) | LIPS | 15/12/2025 | 18:30 |
| Literature in Pubs at The Vernon Arms: Laid-back traditional alehouse featuring a selection of beers & plentiful comfort food plates. 69 Dale Street, City Centre, Liverpool, L2 2HJ | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| TV Traitors? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Rob | 05/01/2026 | 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 | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| Democracy and Populism? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Robert | 12/01/2026 | 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 | ||||
| Materialism v Idealism | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Evan | 19/01/2026 | 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 | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| The Ethics of Surrogacy ... | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Alan | 26/01/2026 | 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 | ||||
| World War 3 | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Sean | 02/02/2026 | 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 | ||||
| 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! | ||||
| The Rise of Collective stupidity V Critical Thinking | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Alan + Paul | 09/02/2026 | 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 | ||||
| What is Culture? | The Vernon Arms (City Group) | Robert | 19/02/2026 | 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 | ||||