Let's Learn Philosophy Collaboration

Let’s Learn is a weekly, in-person collaborative philosophy group that discusses a pre-planned topic as a team. Our goal is to learn about each other, ourselves, and how we construct our worldviews. No topic is off-limit, but Mike does bring his 15+ plus years of teaching experience to the group, acting as a moderator, to ensure that all attendees feel respected and safe as we discuss the issue of the day.

The session runs from 12:30pm to 2:00 pm every Saturday. The building opens at noon, so please don't arrive any earlier. We start promptly at 12:30. Please be on time.

Here’s a list of some of the topics we’ve discussed in our weekly 90-minute sessions:

• Data privacy, advice, courtesy, childhood goals, marriage & divorce, conflict, fears, and isolation.
• Truth, mistakes, public speaking, revenge, morality, humor, success and failure.
• Anger, murder, coincidences, continuity of self-identity, addiction, compulsion and habits.
• Opinions, memory, sacredness, self-esteem, the social contract, and animism.
• We’ve even split the hair between presumptions & assumptions (Yes, they’re different!)

But the topic doesn’t matter. We could discuss dog-poop and our ridiculously amicable clan would still run out of time, with people dying to share more opinions.

Why join? Because in our modern society, spending quality, in-person time with others is just what the doctor ordered. Like a frog in slowly-boiling water, we’ve become conditioned to a post-COVID, isolated, digital existence that is wreaking havoc on our mental health and community is the only cure.

This event is hosted by Mike Oppenheim, an English, grammar, language, and creative writing professor with a 15+ year career teaching students from High School through College. He holds an M.F.A. from Mills College, an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from The University of California at Berkeley, a Master's Level Certificate in Copyediting from The University of California at San Diego, and a B.A. in Film Studies, English & Philosophy from The University of Pittsburgh, summa cum laude.But as his art (and photos) indicate, he’s silly and embraces humor!