This is a place holder event for the 2025 Pub Philosophy series A Crisis of Thinking: Reflections on a Fractured World
6PM at Clancy's Fish Pub, Fremantle.
Lecture starts at 6:30, 45-60 minutes followed by Q&A.
Third Monday of every month.
As always, lectures are Free to attend! Please invite anyone who is interested. No experience with philosophy is required, nor with our previous series'.
Series Description:
The present is full of crises: political, economic and climatic to name only a few. In the face of these overwhelming challenges it has been suggested that we are prone to “crisis thinking”, in which panic leads us to act rashly, or in the worst case to not act at all, and instead avoid the tasks before us. Some symptoms of this avoidance are the rabbit holes, echo chambers and filter bubbles that we discussed in the previous series.
In this series, we will reflect upon our present thinking about our troubled world, not as the psychological notion of “crisis thinking” but instead as a crisis of thinking. We draw upon the meaning of crisis as a crossroads at which change is possible in order to consider the crisis of thinking as an opportunity to think differently. We seek to approach the problems that confront us in a different way; from a perspective of considered reflection rather than panic.
