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  • Cartoon showing Kant teaching "Critique of Pure Reason" to a classroom of sleeping students, with a starry cosmic sky visible through the window.

    Waking Up: Kant's Dogmatic Slumber and You

    By Caroline Black

    We discuss what Immanuel Kant called his "dogmatic slumber," how he woke from it to write his essential works in philosophy, sparking a revolution in thought that would shake the Western world.
  • A bearded philosopher with his hands lifted in a shrug as a crowd of people in a darkened room point their fingers at him.

    Cancel This!: Cancel Culture and When to Reject a Thinker

    By Caroline Black

    Let's discuss the idea of cancel culture and its relation to problematic philosophers and public figures in general. We will try to see if and when cancel culture can be useful, and when we should cancel a thinker.
  • Wake Up! You're Being Visited by the First Spirit of Philosophy

    Wake Up! You're Being Visited by the First Spirit of Philosophy

    By Caroline Black

    The second part of the "Philosophy Carol" series in which you are visited by the Spirit of Philosophy Past, glimpsing the history of philosophy while receiving bonks on the head from an ancient tome.