Philosophy
Eros: The Geometry of Desire
Moon Rise Studio 614 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesThis Olio event - with professor Jamie Warren of BMCC-CUNY - will explore this mercurial creature, the Devil-God Desire. Through a close reading of Anne Carson’s work Eros: The Bittersweet, we will question how we have come to believe that love requires the number two, when logic demonstrates that the answer is three. Triangles, not […]
Olio Breakfast Club | Frankenstein: Who is the Monster?
Threes Brewing 113 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFor this Olio Breakfast Club with Baruch College Professor Patricia Kim, we'll meet for brunch at Three's Brewing and take a deep dive into Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to discuss the human compulsion for scientific knowledge and some of its cultural consequences. Some questions to think about: Who is the monster? In what ways are you, […]
Philosophy Workshop on Joel Whitebook’s Freud: An Intellectual Biography
The New School 63 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesDr. Joel Whitebook, Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, will discuss his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography. Cutting through the tired clichés of the “Freud Wars,” the author presents us with a radically new portrait of the founder of psychoanalysis. Because Whitebook is a philosopher as well as a psychoanalyst, he has been able to integrate many of […]
Stoicism or Epicureanism? Let the Discussion Begin
New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 W 64th St, New York, NY, United StatesStoicism and Epicureanism have been around for more than two millennia. Surprisingly, they are being proposed in the 21st century as philosophies to adopt in order to live a life worth living (a eudaimonic life, as the ancient Greeks called it). Join us for a conversation between Prof. Catherine Wilson, author of How to Be an Epicurean, […]
Simons Foundation Presents: The Math Puzzle That Spawned 100 Philosophy Papers
Simons Foundation 160 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesAt first glance, the Sleeping Beauty problem appears to be a simple question about probability. But since being proposed 19 years ago by philosopher Adam Elga, the problem has incited passionate debate in the philosophy community. In this talk, Peter Winkler will describe the famous thought problem about a dozy princess being awoken once or […]