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  • Signs and Obfuscations: Can the Weather Lie?

    The forecast calls for rain, but it remains dry.  Someone smiles cheerfully at you, while plotting your downfall.  You’ve got a fever—but the only cure is more cowbell.  Our Philosophical Happy Hour takes up the question of signs, obfuscation, obscurity, and the signs by which truth and falsity are known. Nobody—or almost nobody—expects a career…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, III.5

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on the art of questioning. A unique fifth installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2026. In this installment, we ask: do you have a serious question—any serious question whatsoever—which troubles your mind? What is that question? Do we really know what it is what we are seeking? The Lyceum’s…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, III.4

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The fourth installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2026, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, III.3

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The third installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2026, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Quodlibet de Disciplina, III.2

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… anything pertaining to learning (disciplina)! The second installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2026, with a specific topic but an open field of questioning. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have any question whatsoever, or any idea of weight, so long as it pertains to learning that…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, III.1

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The first installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2026, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, II.4

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The fourth installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2025, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, II.3

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The third installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2025, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, II.2

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! The second installment in our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2025, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to…

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  • Felicitates de Quodlibet, II.1

    A Philosophical Happy Hour on… whatever! Renewing our Felictates de Quodlibet series for 2025, in which we talk about whatever we want, so long as it is interesting, and for as long as we are interested. Or, to put this otherwise: do you have a philosophical question—any question whatsoever—you want seriously to discuss with other…

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