On Philosophical Disagreement — Being and Becoming’s Philosophy Festival

Philosophers love to disagree. Through conversations, letters, books, articles, and more, they disagree among themselves and with non-philosophers. What does this tell us about the power of disagreement? In this presentation, Overthink podcast co-hosts Ellie Anderson and David M. Peña-Guzmán explore various approaches to disagreement in philosophical discourse, such as testing intuitions and immanent critique. They suggest that philosophers work with disagreement in illuminating ways, looking at concrete examples of how philosophers have gone about staging intellectual disagreements for the sake of expressing a novel view, critiquing an existing reality, or both.

This is an online event, we’ll send out the Zoom link to all registered attendees one week before the seminar, so keep an eye on your inbox as the date approaches. Space is limited! Please also obtain a ticket here if you're attending this event.

Being and Becoming’s Philosophy Festival

This is the first event of Being and Becoming's week-long philosophy festival in Toronto with in-person workshops and socials from November 19th-23rd, organized by yours truly in celebration of World Philosophy Day.

Throughout the festival week, evening seminars and workshops on different methods of inquiry and dialogue will be on offer. The final evening of the festival, on Saturday, November 23rd, will be a social with interactive programming centred on collaborative exploration and curiosity. Click on the events below for more details and tickets.

• Wednesday, November 20: Virtuosity with Christopher Mastropietro and Taylor Barratt
• Thursday, November 21: The Phenomenological Method with David Suarez
• Friday, November 22: The Meaning of Race/Culture with William Paris
• Saturday, November 23: Festival Social and Workshop on Philosophical Exploration with Others

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This event is brought to you by Being and Becoming, a Toronto based non-profit. We aim to create community around exploring everyday concepts and experiences so that we may live more intentional, thoughtful, and meaningful lives. We use philosophy as a tool with which we can come to a richer understanding of the world around us.

By offering activities, spaces, and other opportunities for conversation and co-exploration, we hope to enable the meeting and fusion of individuals and their ideas. Everyone is welcome, regardless of background: indeed, we believe the journey is best undertaken alongside explorers from a variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.

Find out more about Being and Becoming here.

About the Curiosity Café Series:

For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to join us at our Curiosity Cafés and are wondering what they’re all about: every two weeks, we invite members of our community to come out to the Madison Avenue Pub to engage in a collaborative exploration of our chosen topic. Through these events, we aim to build our community of people who like to think deeply about life’s big questions, and provide each other with some philosophical tools to dig deeper into whatever it is we are most curious about.