The logo for Common Grounds Coffee in Lexington, KY, featuring a coffee bean.What: Talk about Euthanasia & a LexSOPHIA Chapter

When: Friday, March 30th from 5 – 6:30 pm

Where: Common Grounds Coffeeshop (back room reserved for us)

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At this first meeting of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter, LexSOPHIA, we’ll be talking about a controversial 1-page piece that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, called “It’s Over Debbie.” It’s about euthanasia and is very useful for getting people talking about some important philosophical ideas about life, death, ethics, medical procedure, the law, and more. It’s really fun to talk about. Don’t worry, there’s no homework!

After an hour or so, we’ll talk about a next meeting and the future of the LexSOPHIA chapter. Join us if you can!

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For those who can’t attend, send us your thoughts about:

a) Whether you’d like to be part of such a chapter;
b) What you’d enjoy talking about;
c) What days and times work for you, if this first meeting didn’t.Dr. Eric Thomas Weber.

Email SOPHIA Executive Director Eric Thomas Weber if you have any thoughts, comments, or questions regarding this event or accessibility needs.

Date: March 30, 2018
Time: 05:00-6:30 p.m.
Event: Talk about Euthanasia & Found LexSOPHIA Chapter!
Sponsor: The Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA)
859.257.1849
Venue: Common Grounds Coffee Shop (room reserved for us)
859.233.9761
Location: 343 E High St
Lexington, KY 40507
USA
Public: Public
Registration: Click here to register.

There's no requirement to join SOPHIA to participate, but if you're interested, you can JOIN HERE!

SOPHIA’s Milwauke Chapter is meeting on Saturday, March 17th, 2018 at 1:30 pm at the MKE Public Library’s Community Room, in Milwauke, WI, to talk about “Where Do Justice and Kindness Meet?” 

Details:

Poster for the MKE SOPHIA chapter event - all text is included in the body of the event post about this event, whose topic is "Where Do Justice and Kindness Meet?"What we’ll do

Join us for the first public event of the Milwaukee chapter of SOPHIA (Society of Philosophers In America) – a public discussion of how Justice and Kindness meet up (and whether they are in conflict with each other). And consider joining this new SOPHIA chapter while you’re there!

We will be holding this event in the COMMUNITY ROOM of the Milwaukee Public Library, starting at 1:30 PM, and running until about 4:00 PM on March 17.

The first hour of the session will be a facilitated discussion – led by Andi Sciacca, Kreigh Knerr, and Greg Sadler – engaging the community on issues of justice, community, kindness or beneficence. What do people think justice is? Why are there so many conflicts about justice? What is needed beyond justice? These are just the starting points for our discussion. We’ll also look very briefly at one moral perspective that construes kindness as a part of justice.

Cicero.After a short break, we will have a second discussion, led by Greg Sadler, and focused on some key ideas from Cicero’s work of Stoic Ethics, On Duties. We will go further into the interplay between kindness and justice, discuss what we owe those outside our community, and look at justice’s connections with the other three main virtues recognized by the Stoics – wisdom, courage, and moderation. No previous background , study, or reading in philosophy is required for the first hour – just an interest in participating in these discussions vital to our Milwaukee community. For the second hour, it is recommended that participants read book 1 of Cicero’s work, On Duties. We’ll be using the Miller translation. You can read it for free at these sites:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Cic.%20Off.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cicero/de_Officiis/1A*.html

If you’d like to purchase the Loeb edition of the text, you can do so here – http://amzn.to/2CZZrh1

Given the focus on Stoic ethics, this event is also co-sponsored by the MKE Stoic Fellowship – a local meetup for people interested in Stoic philosophy and practice

What to bring

Interest in participating in the discussions! (and if you’re taking part in the second, it would be helpful to have read Cicero’s On Duties, book 1)

Date: March 17, 2018
Time: 01:30-04:00 p.m.
Event: Where Do Justice and Kindness Meet?
Sponsor: MKE SOPHIA Chapter
Venue: The Milwauke Public Library
414.286.3000
Location: 814 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53233
USA
Public: Public

You don't have to be a member to attend, but consider joining SOPHIA!

Disagreement: Strategies for Talking Across Divides

A meeting of the South Puget Sound Chapter of SOPHIA, from October 2017.

How can we have productive discussions when there is disagreement?

Can tools from philosophy help in these discussions?

Are there strategies to use (or avoid) in these discussions?

Dr. Sergia Hay.

Dr. Sergia Hay.

Please join us for conversation about disagreement!

If you have questions, contact Dr. Sergia Hay.

Date: March 5, 2018
Time: 7:00 pm
Event: March Meeting - South Puget Sound SOPHIA Chapter
Topic: Disagreement: Strategies for Talking Across Divides
Sponsor: Pacific Lutheran University
Venue: Anderson University Center, Room 213
Location: Anderson University Center 213
Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
USA
Public: Public

Come enjoy the conversation! If you are interested, consider the benefits of SOPHIA membership and consider joining SOPHIA!

“Opportunities and Challenges for Building Local Communities of Philosophical Conversation”

A SOPHIA panel organized for the 2018 meeting of the Public Philosophy Network, featuring:
Cashio.

“Liberating the Liberal Arts: Encouraging Philosophical Engagement Outside of the Classroom”
Anthony Cashio

Dr. Sergia Hay.Dr. Michael RingsMatthew Salzano“Building Philosophical Community in the South Puget Sound chapter of SOPHIA”
Matthew Salzano, Michael Rings, and Sergia Hay

Dr. Eric Thomas Weber.“Communities Take Roots: Challenges for Locally Grown Communities of Philosophical Conversation”
Eric Thomas Weber

Date: February 9, 2018
Time: 01:15-02:45 p.m.
Event: SOPHIA Panel at the 2018 Public Philosophy Network Conference
Topic: Philosophy Impact
Sponsor: The Public Philosophy Network
Venue: Embassy Suites and Hilton Garden Inn Hotels
303.443.2600
Location: 2601 Canyon Boulevard
Boulder, CO 80302
USA
Public: Public
Registration: Click here to register.
More Info: Click here for more information.

A group of SOPHIA members will meet and lead a discussion about Episode 1 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on The Molemen and Plato’s Cave Today, with the University of Kentucky Philosophy Club!

A group meeting for a SOPHIA conversation.

If you can listen to the episode in advance, great! If not, no worries, as we have the handout about it so that we’re all on the same page.

Here’s the episode: https://www.philosophersinamerica.com/2017/01/19/ep1-the-molemen-and-platos-cave-today/

The meeting is meant to be genuinely conversational, and to introduce people to what SOPHIA is all about.

Join us!

Date: November 29, 2017
Time: 04:00-05:00 p.m.
Event: Lexington SOPHIA Group Chat about Plato's Cave Today
Topic: Plato's Cave Today
Sponsor: The University of Kentucky Philosophy Club
Venue: White Hall, room 231
Location: 140 Patterson Drive
Lexington, KY 40506
USA
Public: Public

Not a member of SOPHIA yet? Consider joining!