Schedule
Here are all the up and coming enquiry topics and events.
| Topic | Venue | Presenter | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Fluidity? | The City PIP group (Vernon Arms) | Open forum | 27/01/2020 | 14:00 |
| David Hume (Course) | The Ship & Mitre (upstairs) | Sean Timmins | 27/01/2020 | 19:00 |
| Town Planning or Social Control? | Bluecoat Art Centre (Liverpool) | Siobhan | 28/01/2020 | 13:00 |
| OPEN FORUM | The Victoria (Waterloo) | All Members | 28/01/2020 | 18:30 |
| Carpe Diem! (?) | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Open forum | 28/01/2020 | 19:15 |
| Open Forum | The Dog & Partridge (Sheffield) | Rosie | 02/02/2020 | 19:45 |
| Philosophy of History | The City PIP group (Vernon Arms) | Peter | 03/02/2020 | 14:00 |
| The Waste Land | Lime Kiln (Concert Square) | LIPS Group | 03/02/2020 | 18:15 |
| Looking at Eliot's 'heap of broken images' in two parts. | ||||
| Gender Identity? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Ron | 03/02/2020 | 19:00 |
| Gender identity - myth or reality? | ||||
| TBA | Ramsbottom (Rose & Crown) | Rob | 03/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Soul: Have we got one - what is it? | Ramsbottom (Rose & Crown) | All | 03/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Artifical Idiot | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Tommy | 04/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| The Dunning-Kruger Effect! | Keith's Wine Bar (L'pool South) | Ross | 04/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. | ||||
| The 9 Truths... | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Richard | 05/02/2020 | 13:00 |
| Do the needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the one? | The Cock Hotel (Wellington) | 05/02/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Restrict speech? See note. | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 05/02/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Lordable attempts to restrict speech can quickly become a tool to silence critics and oppress minorities" Obama 2012. Discuss. | ||||
| Political Economy and Spirituality | Lime Kiln (Concert Square) | Russell | 10/02/2020 | 18:15 |
| Paganism | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Karen | 11/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| A discussion on pragmatism | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 11/02/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Is genuine democracy possible? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Open forum | 13/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| Winter Symposium! | The Vernon (Arms) | Merseyside PIPs | 16/02/2020 | 12:00 |
| The Vernon, Rigby's, Shenanigans! | ||||
| Embers | The Vernon (Arms) | Jose | 17/02/2020 | 18:15 |
| Sandor Marai novel. | ||||
| All Change | The Victoria (Waterloo) | Paul T | 18/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| How Technology affects Philosophy | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Martin | 19/02/2020 | 13:00 |
| How do we prioritise conflicting rights? (Who's rights are more right?) | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Morality and Marketing | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| Veganism? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | open forum | 19/02/2020 | 19:30 |
| This is the Young Philosophy group meeting. Not to be confused with the group that meet every second Thursday of the month. | ||||
| Modern Monetary Theory | Jack Jones House | Grazia | 20/02/2020 | 18:00 |
| As per our programme, we will have a discussion on “Modern Monetary Theory”. I have found some readings from different perspectives on the topic.......................... .......study4socialism@outlook.com | ||||
| OPEN FORUM | The Victoria (Waterloo) | ALL | 25/02/2020 | 18:30 |
| Sloth the unacknowleged virtue! | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Edna | 27/02/2020 | 19:15 |
| The Environmental Crisis | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Howard | 02/03/2020 | 19:00 |
| The Environmental Crisis - what should be done? | ||||
| Counselling? | The Rose & Crown (Bebington) | Open forum | 04/03/2020 | 13:00 |
| Are we big or small? | The Cock Hotel (Wellington) | 04/03/2020 | 19:00 | |
| When is it appropriate to keep secrets? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 04/03/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Can racism cease to exist? | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 10/03/2020 | 19:00 | |
| The ideas of Yuval Noah Harari? | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Francis | 12/03/2020 | 19:15 |
| How do we stay human in a digital landscape? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 18/03/2020 | 19:30 | |
| What is the point of a university degree? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 18/03/2020 | 19:30 |
| Plato's Republic | The Coffee House (Wavertree) | Paul D | 26/03/2020 | 19:15 |
| Neurodiversity | The Cock Hotel (Wellington) | 01/04/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Should animals have rights? | The Blue Bell (Eccles) | 01/04/2020 | 19:30 | |
| Conspiracy? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 06/04/2020 | 19:00 |
| Which conspiracy narratives are true? | ||||
| Do guns protect or kill people? | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 14/04/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Mind and Matter – Is matter all there is? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 15/04/2020 | 19:30 |
| What motivates us to be moral? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 11/05/2020 | 19:00 |
| What can motivate virtuous conduct once the fear of punishment in hell, or in rebirth, or by physical or capital punishment has gone? | ||||
| Does hardship make a person stronger? If so, under what conditions and at what point is too much hardship? If no, what makes a person stronger? | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 12/05/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Is lying a prerequisite of modern social living? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 20/05/2020 | 19:30 |
| What's good/bad about Huddersfield? | The Sportsman (Huddersfield) | Open forum | 01/06/2020 | 19:00 |
| What is good and what is bad about Huddersfield, the Colne Valley and Calderdale? What could be done to make them better? | ||||
| What is evil? | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 09/06/2020 | 19:00 | |
| Information as property and the possibility of privacy | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 17/06/2020 | 19:30 |
| Information as property and the possibility of privacy | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 17/06/2020 | 19:30 |
| What are the essential fundamentals of language? | The Black Horse (Heswall) | 14/07/2020 | 19:00 | |
| When does a machine obtain moral recognition? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 15/07/2020 | 19:30 |
| Transhumanism: Can body modification ever go too far? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 19/08/2020 | 19:30 |
| Is all work prostitution? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 16/09/2020 | 19:30 |
| Is democracy even possible? | The Greyhound (Newcastle-under-Lyme) | the group | 21/11/2020 | 19:30 |