Ask The Philosopher: A Philosophical Chat – Bring your biggest questions!

About this event

Why am I here? Am I free? Do I have a soul? What is the difference between "right" and "wrong"? How do I know things about myself and the world around me? What is a question? Does my dog love me? Should we ban billionaires? Is ignorance bliss? ..... Join us on Zoom for a fun, informal philosophical chat with members of The Philosopher's Editorial Team (https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/editorial-team). Bring your philosophical questions\*, and we will try our best to offer some engaging responses. For our May session, we will be joined by Michael Bavidge (https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/product-page/philosophy-in-the-borders-and-other-essays-by-michael-bavidge) and Michael Spicher (https://michaelrspicher.com/) and other guests. If you are attending, you are invited and encouraged to submit a question in advance to [email protected] with the subject line "Ask The Philosopher". This will be a fun, informal conversation. No experience of philosophy is required! The guests: • James Andow (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-andow/) is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Manchester. His interests include value theory, epistemology, environmental ethics and experimental philosophy. He is a Managing Editor at The Philosopher and leads the team that produce our print journal. • Noemi Magnani (https://philpeople.org/profiles/noemi-magnani) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a Managing Editor at The Philosopher. Her interests encompass political philosophy, ethics, gender, and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on the relationship between liberalism, multiculturalism, autonomy, and vulnerability. • Michael Bavidge is the president of The Philosophical Society of England (https://philsoceng.uk/) (PSE), the charity which sponsors The Philosopher. A former lecturer at Newcastle University, he worked at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and then the university's Philosophical Studies Programme. He wrote on psychopathy and the law, pain and suffering, and animal minds. Note that this event is free to attend but the Zoom registration page has, by default, an optional donation amount that you can change to $0 (or whatever you wish). Donations go to The Philosopher magazine to cover our costs and expand the scope of our series. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* \* About The Philosopher (https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/): The Philosopher is the longest-running public philosophy journal in the UK (founded in 1923). It is published by the The Philosophical Society of England (http://www.philsoceng.uk/), a registered charity founded ten years earlier than the journal in 1913, and still running regular groups, workshops, and conferences around the UK. As of 2018, The Philosopher is edited by Newcastle-based philosopher Anthony Morgan and is published quarterly, both in print and digitally. The journal aims to represent contemporary philosophy in all its many and constantly evolving forms, both within academia and beyond. Contributors over the years have ranged from John Dewey and G.K. Chesterton to contemporary thinkers like Christine Korsgaard, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Elizabeth Anderson, Martin Hägglund, Cary Wolfe, Avital Ronell, and Adam Kotsko.