The Sportsman (Huddersfield)
Address: 1 St Johns Road, Huddersfield, HD1 5AY
Phone: 07528 879 715
Times: 7pm - 9pm first Monday of the month
Notes: THINK HUDDERSFIELD - Email - huddersfieldpips1@gmail.com
Link: http://greatyorkshirepubs.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/great-yorkshire-pubs-28-sportsman.html
Upcoming Topics/Events
| Topic | Proposed | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight and Crooked Thinking | Robert Thouless | 04/03/2019 | 19:00 |
| How can we protect ourselves from crooked thinking and learn to think straight? | |||
| How can you practice philosophy as a way of life? | The group | 01/04/2019 | 19:00 |
| Can socialism succeed in the 21st century? | The group | 13/05/2019 | 19:00 |
| What are our - selves? | The group | 03/06/2019 | 19:00 |
| What are our 'selves' - brains? regenerating bodies? social constructions? or something else? | |||
| Priests, Politicians and Virtue. | The group | 01/07/2019 | 19:00 |
| Priest and politicians claim to be virtuous - are they? How should they be virtuous? | |||
| Bullshit Jobs? | The Sportsmen | 05/08/2019 | 19:00 |
| What kind of jobs are the bullshit jobs? Which could be removed or replaced by a computer system, with little negative impact? (David Graeber book 2018) | |||
| How can we achieve happiness? | The Sportsmen | 02/09/2019 | 19:00 |
| Today's Fictions and Fallacies | The Sportsmen | 04/11/2019 | 19:00 |
| Jeremy Bentham (1824) wrote wittily about fictions and fallacies based on what he learned when studying the House of Commons. What are the most entertaining (or possibly insidious) fictions and fallacies today? | |||
| What is good literature? | The Sportsmen | 02/12/2019 | 19:00 |
| What is good literature? Should Bob Dylan have been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature? | |||