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PUBLIC
PHILOSOPHY
WEEK 2024
APRIL 14-20

Each year, we host a lively series of discussions, talks, tastings, and screenings, aimed at fostering thoughtful reflections on life's most meaningful questions. We continually update our lineup with new events as they take shape, so be sure to revisit this space for the latest updates.

EXPLORE THE EVENTS

Su

APRIL 14

Featured
Onyx Tonics
What Is Faith?
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
The Outer Spice Cafe
Possibilitarianism, Aesthetics & Ethics, & the Utopia of the Next Step: The Philosophy of Robert Musil
The Outer Spice Cafe
The Outer Spice Cafe

Mo

APRIL 15

Featured
Venetian Soda Lounge
How Should We Punish?
Venetian Soda Lounge
Venetian Soda Lounge
UVM Philosophy Department
Ethics of Survivor
UVM Philosophy Department
UVM Philosophy Department
Onyx Tonics
AI Is Happening, and There's Some Unsolved Philosophy We Should Probably Solve
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
Brown Public Library, Community Room
Epistemic Injustice: A Chat About Miranda Fricker's Work
Brown Public Library, Community Room
Brown Public Library, Community Room
ONE Community Center, CORE Room 218
The Soft Power of Water in Dao De Jing
ONE Community Center, CORE Room 218
ONE Community Center, CORE Room 218
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
Making Time: Calendars, Social Justice, and Religious Literacy
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
Burlington City Arts, Lorraine B. Good Room
Colonized Restorative Justice: Still Worth Pursuing?
Burlington City Arts, Lorraine B. Good Room
Burlington City Arts, Lorraine B. Good Room
Billings Library, Marsh Room
Jumpstart Your Career in Professional Media
Billings Library, Marsh Room
Billings Library, Marsh Room

Tu

APRIL 16

Featured
Perkins Pier
Multispecies Relating: Talk, Meditate, and Make Art With the More-Than-Human World
Perkins Pier
Perkins Pier
Green State Dispensary
High Time for a Phenomenology of Cannabis & Chronos
Green State Dispensary
Green State Dispensary
Third Place Pizzeria, Back Tables
A Philosopher on Psychedelics: From Transformation to Legalization
Third Place Pizzeria, Back Tables
Third Place Pizzeria, Back Tables
Onyx Tonics
Ethics of True Crime
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
Adamant Community Club
Three Books That (maybe, potentially, hopefully) Made Me a Better Person
Adamant Community Club
Adamant Community Club
Pierson Library
Philosophical Considerations Amidst Climate Chaos
Pierson Library
Pierson Library
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
Poetry Games Workshop
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
South Burlington Public Library, Community Room
Queen City Brewery
Philosophy Trivia Night at Queen City Brewery
Queen City Brewery
Queen City Brewery

We

APRIL 17

Featured
Migrant Justice
Worker Power and Grassroots Organizing on Vermont Dairy Farms
Migrant Justice
Migrant Justice
Ilsley Public Library
The Missing Piece of the Good Life
Ilsley Public Library
Ilsley Public Library
College Street Congregational Church
We Are Going There: Hospice Singing with the Noyana Singers
College Street Congregational Church
College Street Congregational Church
Onyx Tonics
The Thinker We Should Have Listened To: Reading Spinoza in an Age of Crisis
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
Venetian Soda Lounge
The Hidden Consequences of Incarceration: The Children Left Behind
Venetian Soda Lounge
Venetian Soda Lounge
South Burlington Public Library, Board Room
What Are Mental Illnesses?
South Burlington Public Library, Board Room
South Burlington Public Library, Board Room
UVM Philosophy Department
Unpacking Special Education: Exploring Its Role and Effects on Signing Deaf Students
UVM Philosophy Department
UVM Philosophy Department
Democracy Creative
Child Poverty is a Policy Choice
Democracy Creative
Democracy Creative
Marsh Life Sciences Building, UVM Food Lab, Rm 231
What Happens in a Climate Kitchen?
Marsh Life Sciences Building, UVM Food Lab, Rm 231
Marsh Life Sciences Building, UVM Food Lab, Rm 231

Th

APRIL 18

Featured
Ilsley Public Library, Community Meeting Room
Should We Geoengineer the Planet in Response to Climate Change?
Ilsley Public Library, Community Meeting Room
Ilsley Public Library, Community Meeting Room
Onyx Tonics
The Purpose, Power and Promise of Public Education
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
Autumn Records
Hanging Out: The Politics of Free Time
Autumn Records
Autumn Records
Hartford Community Restorative Justice Center
Restorative Justice & Forgiveness
Hartford Community Restorative Justice Center
Hartford Community Restorative Justice Center
Waterman 413
Why You Should Not Believe the Conclusion of this Talk
Waterman 413
Waterman 413

Fr

APRIL 19

Featured
Venetian Soda Lounge
The Promise and Pitfalls of Lab-Grown Meat: Ethical and Practical Perspectives from a Farmer and a Chef
Venetian Soda Lounge
Venetian Soda Lounge
Onyx Tonics
Why Does Restoring Nature Make Us Feel So Good?
Onyx Tonics
Onyx Tonics
Uncommon Coffee
Are You Sick of Caring? Communal Compassion Fatigue and the Erosion of Social Connection.
Uncommon Coffee
Uncommon Coffee
UVM Philosophy Department
Cannabis and Philosophy: Breaking the Grass Ceiling
UVM Philosophy Department
UVM Philosophy Department

Sa

APRIL 20

Featured
Pierson Library
Confucius Says: Abortion? Chatting with Confucius about the Abortion Debate
Pierson Library
Pierson Library
Venetian Soda Lounge
Doomscrolling & Democracy: Making and Getting the News in (What Feels Like) the Apocalypse
Venetian Soda Lounge
Venetian Soda Lounge
Brooks Memorial Library, Room A - Community Meeting Room
Everywhere Philosophy Presents: The Twilight Zone Examined
Brooks Memorial Library, Room A - Community Meeting Room
Brooks Memorial Library, Room A - Community Meeting Room
Little Seed Café (lower-level room)
Aristotle on Friendship and Justice: Contemporary Lessons from Ancient Greece
Little Seed Café (lower-level room)
Little Seed Café (lower-level room)
Works and Days Farm
Philosophy of Work
Works and Days Farm
Works and Days Farm
Despacito
Philosophy in/as Translation
Despacito
Despacito
Fletcher Free Library, Fletcher Room
See This! Touch That! Molyneux's Perplexing Problem
Fletcher Free Library, Fletcher Room
Fletcher Free Library, Fletcher Room

Special thanks to this year’s sponsors