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Past Events
Multiple DatesMon, Apr 20Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
Multiple DatesTue, Apr 14A monthly philosophy gathering for high school students, led by Dr. Molly Oshatz (Zephyr Institute)
Tue, Apr 14Join Zephyr for this evening salon with Stephen Haber (Hoover Institution, Stanford University) on the ecological foundations of the wealth of nations.
Wed, Apr 08Join Zephyr as we read Plato's powerful account of Socrates' last day, spent in discourse on the immortality of the soul.
Wed, Apr 01Join Zephyr for this evening salon with Alison McQueen (Stanford University, Political Science) on the role of religion in the thought of Thomas Hobbes.- Multiple DatesMon, Mar 02Join Zephyr to read and discuss works exploring the nature of law and justice.
Wed, Feb 25In this seminar, Prof. Rowan Dorin (Stanford, History) will guide us through a key text in English history for the debate over the relationship between the monarch and the law.
Wed, Jan 28Join Zephyr to read and discuss this classic work on the nature of rhetoric, persuasion, philosophy, and the good life.
Wed, Nov 05Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of courage.
Wed, Oct 29Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of piety and the relation between morality and the divine.
Wed, Oct 22Join Zephyr for this evening salon with Barry Strauss (Stanford, Hoover Institution) about the ancient conflict between the Jewish people and the Roman Empire and its lessons for us today.
Wed, Oct 15Join Zephyr for this evening salon with Prof. Jared Warren (Stanford, Philosophy) about the puzzling relation between natural rights and risk—a puzzle with potential implications both for theoretical justifications of the state and for how we should evaluate real life situations and cases.
Sat, Oct 11Join us as we celebrate a decade of recovering the humanities in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Wed, Oct 08Join Zephyr for this evening salon with Walter Scheidel (Stanford, Classics and History) about what ancient history is and why it should matter to all of us.
Wed, Oct 01Join Zephyr to read and discuss together this classic work exploring the nature of our obligations to the state.
Mon, Jul 28A week-long philosophy summer day camp on "Mind and Machine" for rising junior and senior high school students and incoming college freshmen with Dr. Molly Oshatz.
Mon, Jun 23A week-long philosophy summer day camp on "Mind and Machine" for rising junior and senior high school students and incoming college freshmen with Dr. Molly Oshatz.
Multiple DatesTue, May 13A monthly philosophy gathering for high school students, led by Dr. Molly Oshatz (Zephyr Institute)
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