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Meetings, discourse, debates and exchange in the spirit of free and public enquiry...under the olives.
Week and weekend encounters are listed below
Lunch, dinner and good wine are never far away, excellent ways to compensate the body while the mind indulges itself. |
| Date | Duration |
Theme | Venue | Principal Language |
Status |
| 23-25 May 2008 | Weekend | Parmenides: Why is there something rather than nothing? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 24-27 Sept 2009 | Weekend | Parmenides: Why is there something rather than nothing? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 1-4 October 2009 | Weekend | Free Will: Epiphenomenalism's greatest trick? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 8-11 October 2009 | Weekend | Kant: he had to limit reason to make room for faith. Fool or wise man? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 15-18 October 2009 | Weekend | Protagoras & Nietzsche: from hominus mensura to self governing will to power. | Elea | English | Completed |
| TBA | Weekend | Socrates: better to be an unhappy man than a happy pig. Really? | Elea | English | Completed |
| TBA | Weekend | Consciousness: What is it, and is it a good thing? | Elea | English | Completed |
| TBA | Weekend | Memetics: a good proto-theory of consciousness? | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Weekend | Friendship & Money: Like water & oil | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Weekend | 2 + 2 = 4, Do they really and why do they? | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Weekend | Quantum physics and strings : can either or both provide an answer as to why anything exists at all? | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Selfish Genes rule forever. Like it or lump it | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Zeno's Paradoxes | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Pythagorean Numerology as a foundation to Reality | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Soren Kiekergaard: A father of existentialism | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | La Fisica moderna e le sue implicazioni filosofiche rivoluzionarie. Venue: Elea | Salerno | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Nicola Abbanagno: Salerno's existentialist philosopher of the first order. Venue: Salerno | Salerno | English | Planned | |
| TBA Nov/Dec | Olive picking and some talks on Thales. Venue: under some olive trees near Elea | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Thales to the Close of the Academy | Elea | English | Planned |
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