Please join us for our philosophy walk on Saturday, November 2nd from 10am-1pm. Topic: Nature & the Humanities. Special guest speakers/philosophers-on-trail -- Ed Glowienka (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Carroll College) & Henry Kramer (2019 Merlin Student Fellow, University of Montana Missoula). Some of the things we'll be exploring along the…
WHO SAYS THERE'S NO HALLOWEEN IN NOVEMBER? Not us! With a "not so gentle nudge" from Mother Nature, we extended Halloween into the first weekend of November! Due to unpalatable weather conditions for our regularly scheduled walk date, our free Merlin Meandering has been RESCHEDULED and will now take place…
In continued response to COVID-19, our Helena Philosophy Walk has been cancelled for this month. Please join our VIRTUAL/ZOOM Philosophy Workshop on Sunday, May 10th from 10am-12:30pm where we’ll be covering similar terrain. Learn more here!
Our society has a complicated relationship with leisure, idleness, and rest. On this walk, we'll explore some of the differences between these things, the historical contexts that have helped to shape our values about work and leisure, and much more! Please join us for our free Philosophy Walk on Sunday, June 7th from 10am - 1pm. Learn more here!
*NOTE: In order to practice safe social distancing measures, we will limit our walk to 10 people max and require registration.*
Please join us for our free July Merlin Meandering on Sunday, July 19th from 9am - 12pm. Featuring guest speaker and author John Clayton, this philosophy walk takes us into the wild with John Muir & Gifford Pinchot through a combination of storytelling, biography, and philosophy. Learn more & RSVP here!
This Humanities Montana Conversations program explores the lives of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot and the questions their contrasting philosophies raise about “the wild” and our place in it. Co-lead by Humanities Montana scholars, John Clayton and Marisa Diaz-Waian, and hosted by North Valley Public Library, the walk and talk will take place at Bitterroot River Park, 100 Stevensville Cutoff Rd, Stevensville, MT 59870. Learn more here!
We are pumped to be teaming up with Johnson's Nursery & Gardens, Forestvale Cemetery, and author-historian Ellen Baumler for pumpkin picking, corn mazes, and hayride ghost story cemetery tours...and a dash of philosophy for good measure (I mean....really...one can't talk about ghosts without unearthing some deeply philosophical matter!). Learn more here!
We are pumped to be teaming up with Johnson's Nursery & Gardens, Forestvale Cemetery, and author-historian Ellen Baumler for pumpkin picking, corn mazes, and hayride ghost story cemetery tours...and a dash of philosophy for good measure (I mean....really...one can't talk about ghosts without unearthing some deeply philosophical matter!). Learn more here!
In this walk led by philosopher David Nowakowski, we'll explore how the ways that ecologists study and learn about wild nature, can also be used to study and learn about ourselves, as human beings in human communities. We’ll look at four ecological principles: whole systems, dynamic balance, resource flows, and limits. And we’ll explore together in dialogue, how we can apply them in our own lives. This is philosophy—the life of wisdom—in a raw, applied, down-to-earth form: Take a method of knowledge and exploration, use it to describe the key elements in the wider world (or in our own inner, private worlds), and then use that clear understanding to respond in the most effective ways, through our choices and actions. Learn more and RSVP here!
In this walk we'll be exploring the the idea of justice through the lens of equity and fairness -- two critical features of the late John Rawls' theory of justice. While a summary of Rawls' views, including the dynamics of his arguments and its implications will be discussed at the outset, the bulk of this walk will be spent exploring, working out, expanding upon, and applying Rawls' views in a "hands-on" way to past and contemporary issues. Learn more and RSVP here!
In this walk led by philosopher David Nowakowski, we'll explore the wonderful world of virtues...and how quirky or not they can be. More & RSVP here!
In this walk featuring Dennis McCahon and Patrick Judge, we’ll explore the connections between Helena’s “sense of place,” climate change, and urban design. Learn more & RSVP here!
