We are so grateful to Humanities MT & the National Endowment for the Humanities for their support of our organization through this SHARP operating support grant & their belief in the importance of our work in the community!
Please join us every third Thursday of the month at 7pm MT via ZOOM for a casual, moderated film discussion hosted by Missoula Public Library and Humanities Montana. Learn more and register for this free monthly gathering here!
Please join us every third Thursday of the month at 7pm MT via ZOOM for a casual, moderated film discussion hosted by Missoula Public Library and Humanities Montana. Learn more and register for this free monthly gathering here!
Please join us every third Thursday of the month at 7pm MT via ZOOM for a casual, moderated film discussion hosted by Missoula Public Library and Humanities Montana. Learn more and register for this free monthly gathering 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!
Our “Thinking as a Community” public philosophy project stems from our belief in the importance of staying connected as a people, the richness and power of thinking together, the value of philosophy and philosophically driven dialogue across disciplines, the importance of cultivating of our personal and civic selves, and the vital role the humanities plays in this process. Our project will offer opportunities for communities to think together (on-line/digitally and in-person) via philosophy workshops and philosophy “walk”shops over the course of 2020 into 2021. We are tremendously grateful to Humanities MT and the National Endowment for the Humanities for their support of our project and for all of the amazing work they are doing in Montana!
Understanding ourselves and the world we live in is critical to our well-being – as individuals and communities. The questions (and answers) that arise from this sort of seeking — why we do the things we do, how we make meaning of our experiences in the world, what things we ought to strive for and how to best go navigate life – fall largely within the domain of the humanities. It is for these reasons alone (though certainly many more arguments in favor of the humanities can be made), that funding for the humanities is imperative. We are deeply grateful for organizations like Humanities MT and for their efforts to help keep the humanities alive and thriving in Montana.
We are pumped to have been asked & selected by Humanities Montana to create two programs about philosophy — both of which speak to the relevance and import of philosophical thinking in our everyday lives.
By investing in philosophy, you are investing in community.
Please don your toga by making a tax-deductible donation today. Learn more here!
Congratulations to our 2021-2022 Merlin Student Scholar Fellow, Julianna Breit! Learn more about this spectacular human being here!
In this philosophy walk led by Ed Glowienka we explored justice as fairness — a position advanced by the late philosopher John Rawls — and how his theory might apply to environmental and international justice. Access audio recordings of our discussion and view pictures here!
An American Philosophical Association special series by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer and the “Into Philosophy” Team. This interview with Merlin CCC Founder & Director, Marisa Diaz-Waian, is part of a collection of collaborative essays/mini-series called “Philosophy as a Way of Life.” Read the interview here!
A 2021 Vernon Press anthology series edited by Stephen Kekoa Miller featuring eight chapters about doing philosophy in innovative ways, both in the schools and the community at large. Read about our chapter, “Philosophy In & By the Community,” here!
“Real wisdom does not merely cause us to know; it makes us ‘be’ in a different way.” (Pierre Hadot) Learn more about philosophy as a way of life.
Think philosophy is impractical, pointless, out-of-reach, or irrelevant? Think again! Want to know more about what philosophy involves
(or what it doesn't) and how it can help you find your way?
