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Night of Ideas 5:00 pm
Night of Ideas @ Brooklyn Public Library
May 21 @ 5:00 pm – 11:45 pm
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NIGHT OF IDEAS is A FREE LATE-NIGHT EVENT featuring top public intellectuals and performers from the U.S., France and around the world, Night of Ideas is co-presented by Villa Albertine and Brooklyn Public Library. New this year: Start your Night of Ideas with a bus journey from Villa Albertine headquarters in Manhattan to Brooklyn Public Library where you’ll enjoy a private 1:1 discussion with a Night of Ideas artist or speaker sitting next to you.[...]
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Olufemi Taiwo: On climate colonialism 7:30 pm
Olufemi Taiwo: On climate colonialism @ Info Commons Lab, Brookly Public Library
May 27 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
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Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions that matter to them. If you’re interested in finding out more, or if you’d like to[...]
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The life of the mind in fiction and philosophy 7:00 pm
The life of the mind in fiction and philosophy @ Black Spring Books
May 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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We have a fun (and free, as always) event tonight at 7:00 PM at Black Spring Books in Williamsburg! It’s a discussion of the life of the mind in fiction and philosophy with the philosopher Skye Cleary (How to Be Authentic), the novelist Christine Smallwood (The Life of the Mind), and the novelist-physician-neurologist Melodie Winawer (Anticipation). If you’re interested in what intellectual life means, the drama of ideas, and the relationship between philosophy and literature, this one’s for you. If you can’t make it in[...]
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The Case against Death: Ingemar Patrick Linden 7:00 pm
The Case against Death: Ingemar Patrick Linden @ Unameable Books
May 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension. Author Ingemar Patrick Linden will talk with film director Miguel Drake McLaughlin about his new book. Ingemar Patrick Linden’s central claim is that death is evil. In this first comprehensive refutation of the most common arguments in favor of human mortality, he writes passionately in favor of antiaging science and radical life extension. We[...]
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