 Philosophy Under the Olives |
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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
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| Date | Duration |
Theme | Venue | Principal Language |
Status |
| 23-25 May 2008 | Weekend | Parmenides: Why is there something rather than nothing? | Elea | Italian | Completed |
| 23-25 May 2008 | Weekend | Parmenides: Why is there something rather than nothing? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 7 February 2010 | 1 Day | Parmenides | Elea | English | Completed |
| 26/27-29 May 2011 | Weekend | "Better to be an unhappy human than a happy pig". Was Mill right? | Elea | English | Completed |
| 2-3 June 2012 | Weekend | On Lying | Elea | English | Completed |
| October 2013 | Weekend | Justice is the Interest of the Stronger. Thus spoke Thrasymachus. | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Weekend | "Ancient rationalism & modern mysticism: the former as antidote to the latter". | Elea | English | Planned |
| TBA | Weekend | Consciousness: What is it, and is it a good thing? | Elea | English | Planned |
| 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 | Italian | Planned | |
| TBA | Nicola Abbanagno: Salerno's existentialist philosopher of the first order. Venue: Salerno | Salerno | Italian | 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 | |
| TBA | Free Will: Epiphenomenalism's greatest trick? | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Kant: he had to limit reason to make room for faith. Fool or wise man? | Elea | English | Planned | |
| TBA | Protagoras & Nietzsche: from hominus mensura to self governing will to power. | Elea | English | Planned |
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