Open Philosophy Reading Group

Since 2017 I have been running a monthly reading group that is open to the public. You can see a list of our readings below. More information is available at the group's Meetup page.

Readings

• Nehamas’ “Postulated Author” (Dec 5, 2020)

• Arendt’s “On Violence” (Oct 24, 2020)

• Suits’ “The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia”, Chapters 11–13 (Aug 29, 2020)

• Suits’ “The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia”, Chapters 8–10 (Jul 25, 2020)

• Suits’ “The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia”, Chapters 6 & 7 (Jun 27, 2020)

• Suits’ “The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia”, Chapters 4 & 5 (May 30, 2020)

• Suits’ “The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia”, Chapters 1–3 (May 2, 2020)

• Nusbaum’s “‘Finely Aware and Richly Responsible’: Moral Attention and the Moral Task of Literature” (Feb 29, 2020)

• Lycan and Pappas’ “What is Eliminative Materialism” Continued (Jan 25, 2020)

• Lycan and Pappas’ “What is Eliminative Materialism” (Dec 21, 2019)

• Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” (November 23, 2019)

• Rorty's "Relativism: Finding and Making" (October 19, 2019)

• Four Views on Free Will: Vargas’ Revisionism (September 29, 2019)

• Four Views on Free Will: Pereboom’s Hard Incompatibilism (August 17, 2019)

• Four Views on Free Will: Fischer’s Compatibilism (July 27, 2019)

• Four Views on Free Will: Kane’s Libertarianism (June 29, 2019)

• Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Postscript (May 25, 2019)

• Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters XI–XIII (April 27, 2019)

• Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters VII–X (March 30, 2019)

• Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters V–VII (February 23, 2019)

• Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapters I–IV (January 26, 2019)

• McTaggart’s “The Unreality of Time” (December 15, 2018)

• Garfield and Priest’s “Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought” (November 17, 2018)

• Kivy’s “Platonism in Music: Another Kind of Defense” (October 27, 2018)

• Spinoza in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (August 4, 2018)

• Goodman’s “The New Riddle of Induction” (July 7, 2018)

• Hume on Induction: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 4 (June 9, 2018)

• Hájek’s "‘Mises Redux’–Redux: Fifteen Arguments Against Finite Frequentism” (May 12, 2018)

• Plato's Crito and Phaedo (April 21, 2018)

• Wolf’s “Moral Saints” (March 17, 2018)

• Plato's Apology (February 17, 2018)

• Gettier’s “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” (January 27, 2018)

• Descartes’ Meditations I and II (December 9, 2017)

• Korsmeyer’s “Touch and the Experience of the Genuine” (November 18, 2017)