What we’re about
Two Hands Philosophy (formerly San Francisco Philosophy) is a social club devoted to academic philosophy, liberated from the university and rehoused at the wine bar, or the walk in the park. We meet weekly for open discussion and gather our sources to learn from each other.
Upcoming events
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Why exactly is it wrong to kill my brother?
Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA, USWe recently discussed Aquinas’s synthesis of divine law and natural reason; revelation and religious experience as sources of authority; experiment as the paradigm of empirical inquiry; the historical structure of meaning; animal cognition as a limit case for moral standing; utilitarian, sentimentalist, consequentialist, and Chinese ethical traditions; reasoning, normativity, and metaethics; naturalism and its moral and anti-naturalist counterparts; and Darwinian explanations of moral sense. Williams’s challenge to ethical theory, Dretske’s account of mind as a natural system, and Weil’s call for rooted obligation together trace the tension between natural explanation and moral transcendence.
Each of us has his or her own philosophical history and journey, and during these walks, we introduce each other to our recent questions and reflections. There is no assigned reading, no required text. Bring your own recommendations, or see what has been recommended by others before. In this dropbox folder you'll find texts and videos that have been discussed on previous occasions. You'll also find a list of recommended texts, if you are new to philosophy.
We gather at Flywheel Coffee, near Stanyan and Page. At exactly 11:15am, we'll be just outside the front door, and begin a hike through Golden Gate Park, returning to Flywheel by 1:00pm. During the walk, we'll discuss your philosophical topics, whatever they may be. If it looks like it'll rain, we'll dip into a restaurant instead.
16 attendeesCan I know what colors look like to me?
Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA, USWe recently discussed topics addressing how reasons carry weight in moral and epistemic deliberation (as in “weighing reasons”), how perception and colour fit into theories of knowledge and experience, how memory and its epistemological problems ground identity and knowledge of the past, how introspection and self-knowledge raise questions about first-person authority and mental state awareness, how film theory and the philosophy of film explore representation and our relation to art, how the analysis of knowledge (especially in light of the Edmund Gettier problem) probes the structure of belief and justification, and how thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Derrida challenge the vehicles of reason, meaning and language. Common themes include normativity (what we ought to believe or do), access (how we know or introspect), representation (how the world or mind appears), and critique of foundational assumptions.
Each of us has his or her own philosophical history and journey, and during these walks, we introduce each other to our recent questions and reflections. There is no assigned reading, no required text. Bring your own recommendations, or see what has been recommended by others before. In this dropbox folder you'll find texts and videos that have been discussed on previous occasions. You'll also find a list of recommended texts, if you are new to philosophy.
We gather at Flywheel Coffee, near Stanyan and Page. At exactly 11:15am, we'll be just outside the front door, and begin a hike through Golden Gate Park, returning to Flywheel by 1:00pm. During the walk, we'll discuss your philosophical topics, whatever they may be. If it looks like it'll rain, we'll dip into a restaurant instead.
7 attendeesPeripatetic Philosophy
Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA, USEach of us has his or her own philosophical history and journey, and during these walks, we introduce each other to our recent questions and reflections. There is no assigned reading, no required text. Bring your own recommendations, or see what has been recommended by others before. In this dropbox folder you'll find texts and videos that have been discussed on previous occasions. You'll also find a list of recommended texts, if you are new to philosophy.
We gather at Flywheel Coffee, near Stanyan and Page. At exactly 11:15am, we'll be just outside the front door, and begin a hike through Golden Gate Park, returning to Flywheel by 1:00pm. During the walk, we'll discuss your philosophical topics, whatever they may be. If it looks like it'll rain, we'll dip into a restaurant instead.
1 attendeePeripatetic Philosophy
Flywheel Coffee Roasters, 672 Stanyan Street, San Francisco, CA, USEach of us has his or her own philosophical history and journey, and during these walks, we introduce each other to our recent questions and reflections. There is no assigned reading, no required text. Bring your own recommendations, or see what has been recommended by others before. In this dropbox folder you'll find texts and videos that have been discussed on previous occasions. You'll also find a list of recommended texts, if you are new to philosophy.
We gather at Flywheel Coffee, near Stanyan and Page. At exactly 11:15am, we'll be just outside the front door, and begin a hike through Golden Gate Park, returning to Flywheel by 1:00pm. During the walk, we'll discuss your philosophical topics, whatever they may be. If it looks like it'll rain, we'll dip into a restaurant instead.
1 attendee
Past events
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