The philosophy society is back with a brand new project: The Hatfield Circle!
What is the Hatfield Circle?
The Hatfield Circle is a bi-weekly philosophy club. It is a dedicated space every alternate Monday 15 to 17pm where anyone from Herts with a love for philosophy can come and engage in philosophy oriented activities in a relaxed semi-informal environment.
Why are we creating the Hatfield Circle?
We feel that Herts is lacking a space that transcends particular modules and lectures where those interested in philosophy could meet up. Our goal is first and foremost to provide this space and let the community itself decide what to do with it while our society committee oversees that these ideas manifest in a smooth, organised way.
What activities might we possibly engage in?
While the particular content of the meetings is up for the members to decide, here is an idea where the agenda might lean:
Debates and discussions, the bread and butter of Philosophy! Some form of organised debate is surely to be expected. In fact, we will be starting our first meeting with one on the topic "From Value to Morality", where we will discuss the difference between these two terms and how do we get from the personal to the social in eg. virtue theory.
Member presentations, guest speakers...and some more debating and discussing afterwards:)
Book readings and film viewing are also an option (with some discussion and debating around them).
Philosophy games! Anything from fun quizzes, to – drum roll – debates. But debates with a fun twist!
The possibilities are endless! Come to our meetings and help us decide.
PS: We want to keep the last 30min of each meeting as a space for free socialisation where people can finish up interesting debates or simply get to know each other.
Who is welcome?
Anyone interested. No prior experience is required, after all, philosophy is the queen of pub science, so come and be a philosophy expert yourself! And if you do not feel like coming in and proclaiming everyone in the field wrong, ie. the phenomenology style, then those who just wish to sit in, listen and take inspiration are most welcome as well.
Just come, don't sweat it:)