Hello everyone and happy autumn! I’m Tom and I am facilitating the former Waterloo Philosophy Book Club.
Depending on feedback from attendees, I will try some different approaches to how the meetup might be most enjoyable and attractive to participants who want to have an additional opportunity in their schedules to meet and discuss ‘big ideas’. To start, I want to keep things simple for the first meetups of the Kitchener/Waterloo (Faux) Philosophy Book Club, but still engaging. (You will need to come to our meetup to get the explanation as to why Faux…?)
We will therefore aim to explore readily accessible, thought-provoking articles, videos and podcasts that offer some combination of content, context, perspectives and further questions. While we want to use the designated items to focus the session, the discussions will be minimally facilitated and mostly unstructured.
Please note that there is a change of venue from the previous one. We will meet monthly on a Saturday morning at The Catalyst, 137 Glasgow St., specifically in the space around the Stockyards coffee shop that greets you at the primary entrance. It is a large facility however the front entrance is not too hard to spot in case you have not visited before.
So that’s the story for the moment. Happy to have any feedback or questions. Please share with anyone who you think might like to engage in a friendly exploration of ideas.
