Sat 12 Sep 26
Price from: £0.00. Start time: 11:00
Blackness Community Library, 225 Perth Road, Dundee DD2 1EJ
MEET THE AUTHORS HEAR THE STORIES EXPLORE THE IDEAS PHILOSOPHY BOOKCLUB transforms ‘meet the author’ into a novel philosophical conversation through storytelling. It offers you a unique opportunity to directly discuss philosophical ideas with the authors of books you might be already reading, might be interested in reading but not sure how to approach, might even think are not for you, or might never otherwise know about. It is made to be equally enjoyed by those who have read the book or have not, those who know about the philosophy or do not, those who are interested in books or those who are interested in philosophy (or both). All curious minds welcome.MEET Sophie Grace Chappell, who is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, and Executive Editor of The Philosophical Quarterly. Her books include Reading Plato’s Theaetetus (2005), Ethics and Experience (2011), Knowing What To Do (2014), Epiphanies: An Eithics of Experience (2022), and A Philosopher Looks at Friendship (2024). She is a published poet (Songs for Winter Rain, 2021) and an enthusiastic, though not necessarily gifted, mountaineer and pianist. She lives in Dundee, Scotland, with her family.HEAR about her life in Trans Figured: On being a transgender person in a cisgender world, Polity Press, 2024. It combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender.EXPLORE your sense of gender. Prompted by Sophie Grace’s stories about, and philosophical insight into, what it is like to be transgender, together we shall reflect on our own gender experiences to better understand ourselves, our current cisgender culture, and imagine a world where we—trans, non-binary, cis people—all might thrive.In collaboration with Arts Library Dundee (ALD), the event will be recorded live, then lightly edited for continuity, and shared online by ALD.You can order your copy of the book from our Philosophy Bookclub friends at Book Attic, 93...
