Dear friend of GPS, As 2018 draws to a close, I want to share highlights from the year as well as some of the initiatives Gotham Philosophical Society has planned for 2019,and to ask for your generous support to help us achieve them. The past year saw GPS launch a...
Those looking for an updated treatment of the topics of this post are invited to go to The Democracy Amendments webpage. I. The Grave Dangers We Face Across the nation, voters are furious with “gridlock” in Washington, D.C. One of the few things...
More than two years ago, the Gotham Philosophical Society was established with the aim of helping New Yorkers to become “members of a thriving community rather than a mere collection of individuals,” and to ensure that they “reap the rewards of...
Last Thursday evening, when I realized that I had approximately twenty-four hours before I would be locked out of my office, my email account, my Blackboard courseware account, and the webservers at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, I started emailing the...
“What do you do with an institution [police] whose core function is the control and elimination of black people specifically, and people of color and the poor more broadly? You abolish it.” Thus writes Mychal Denzel Smith, echoing James Baldwin’s anguish some 50 years...
Please read this important white paper from PLATO on the need for philosophy in pre-college classrooms. Click to access plato-white-paper-why-philosophy-why-now.pdf Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in...