Moral Failure and Improvement Recap
Plus our upcoming café on gaslighting.
Being and Becoming Community Newsletter
A newsletter for members of Being and Becoming: A Community for the Curious, in Toronto and online.
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Our Upcoming Café on Moral Improvement
Missing this café would be a moral failure.
Power in Social Relations Recap
Plus our upcoming REVISITED café on grief
Meaning in the Mundane Recap
Plus details on our upcoming café on power in social relations.
Censorship Recap + Our REVISITED Café on Work and Identity
Plus our upcoming café on meaning in the mundane.
Reasons and Justification Recap + Our Upcoming Café on Censorship
Plus details on our revisited café on work and identity.
Family Recap
Plus details on our upcoming café on reasons and justification.
Free Will Recap + Our Upcoming Café on the Ethics of the Family
Plus details on our upcoming REVISITED café on hope, despair, and climate action.
Pain Recap + Our Upcoming Café on Free Will
Plus “Time Heals Some Wounds,” a poem by co-moderator Chris Norris.
Home: Place and Feeling Recap + Our Upcoming Café on Pain
Plus details on our upcoming REVISITED café on humour, and Philosophers for Humanity’s Annual Benefit for Change.
Unrequited Love Recap + A Panel Discussion on Justice
Plus our upcoming café on the idea of home, and more.
Gossip Recap + Our First Sunday Café!
Our upcoming café on unrequited love, our REVISITED café on paying attention, a collaboration with Philosophers of Humanity, and more.
Imagination
Plus: last call to get tickets for our upcoming public philosophy social, details on our upcoming Curiosity Café on gossip, recommended readings and resources, and more.
Imagination, and Our Annual Public Philosophy Social
Can you imagine missing our first two events of 2026?
Regret, and an End-of-Year Thank You
Plus a recap of our recent Curiosity Café on regret, a contribution by Tony D’Amato Stortz, and details on our upcoming Annual Public Philosophy Social.
Coincidence
Plus details on our upcoming café on regret, a save-the-date teaser for our upcoming public philosophy social, and more.
The Value of Democracy
Plus details on our upcoming café on coincidence, our REVISITED café on the point of art, and more.
Shame
Plus details on our upcoming café on the value of democracy, a save-the-date teaser for our upcoming REVISITED café, and more.
Other Animal Minds
Plus details on our REVISITED café on personal identity and transformation and our upcoming café on shame, contributions from David M. Peña-Guzmán and Beatrice Turner, and more!
Meaning in Music
Plus details on our upcoming café on other animal minds, our REVISITED café on personal identity and transformation, and more.