Book Club

Free monthly Zoom events for the public,
featuring APPA authors.
Hosted by Rick Repetti.
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Schedule:
All events run from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EDT/EST (New York time zone)

Next event: May 18, 2025. Featured author: Skye Cleary


Skye C. Cleary PhD MBA is a philosopher and author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (SMP | Ebury | Ten Have), Existentialism and the Authentic Life, Existentialism and Romantic Love, and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life. Skye teaches at Columbia University and previously at the City College of New York, Barnard College, the New York Public Library, and with incarcerated students. She is also a Thinking Partner with Philosophy at Work, former Editor-in-Chief of the American Philosophical Association’s Blog and a certified fellow with the American Philosophical Practitioners Association. Before philosophy, she was an international equity arbitrageur, management consultant, and officer in the Australian Army. Her work has been published with The Wall Street JournalThe Paris Review, Aeon, The Times Literary Supplement, TED-EdLos Angeles Review of Books, The IndependentThe ConversationBusiness Insider, New Republicand others.

APPA Book Club #6. Featured Guest: Ashwini Mokashi

I am currently a Lecturer of Hindi and Marathi at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University. I am a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. I teach Literary Hindi practice, Elementary Hindi practice and Marathi practice courses. My academic focus is…

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APPA Book Club #5. Featured Guest: Samir Chopra

Samir Chopra, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His academic interests include pragmatism, Nietzsche, the philosophical and legal foundations of artificial intelligence, philosophy of law, and the politics and ethics of technology. His latest work is Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton…

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APPA Book Club #4: Featured Guest Henri Colt

Henri Colt is an American/French physician, Emeritus Professor of Pulmonary/Critical Care-University of California, and a medical ethicist, published author, and APPA Certified Affiliate. He specializes in short-term work to help clients manage their perspective on life-altering events, moral decision-making, conflict resolution, and quest for authenticity. He does NOT in any way, shape, or form provide…

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APPA Book Club #3: Featured Guest Massimo Pugliucci

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His books include How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books), A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control (The Experiment, with Greg Lopez), and…

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APPA Book Club #2: Featured Guest Michael Picard

Links: Cafe Conversations: Participatory Philosophy in Public Space. Ed. by M. Picard. https://rocksmillspress.com/shop/ols/products/cafe-conversations-picard Philosophical Praxis: Origins, Relations, and Legacy . By Gerd B. Achenbach. Trans. by M. Picard. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793651136/Philosophical-Praxis-Origin-Relations-and-Legacy How to Play Philosophy. By M. Picard: https://tinyurl.com/play-philo Book Trailer, How to Play Philosophy: https://youtu.be/NVTP2YMsHyo Two Readings from How to Play Philosophy: https://youtu.be/pxcqEws6gyE Tug of Logic:…

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APPA Book Club #1: Featured Guest Aleksandar Fatic

Aleksandar Fatić is Research Professor at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1996, and has taught, in various capacities ranging from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor, at the University of South Australia in…

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