Article: Food for thought; Doubt, religion, truth, politics, conformity. No topic is too provocative for participants in Socrates Cafe, who gather to debate some of society's most perplexing issues.(VARIETY)

Article: SOCRATES CAFE: WHAT DOES IT ALL REALLY MEAN?
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  April 11, 2002 ;     636 words ... ... inquiry, will lead a discussion, or Socrates Cafe, at 4 p.m. Saturday at Arabica ... Longfellow Books, which sponsors the Socrates Cafe. Phillips is the author of Socrates ... September, Phillips led the first Socrates Cafe in Portland, at Arabica Coffee. For ...

Article: SOCRATES CAFE MEETS AT LAFAYETTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 14, 2009 ;     455 words ... ... dialog with others. Based on the book Socrates Cafe, by Christopher Phillips, this gathering ... perspectives, then the downtown library's Socrates Cafe is the place to be when Socrates Cafe continues on Thursday evenings into March ...

Article: Find the deeper meaning at 'Socrates ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  March 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... their minds. It's all part of the Socrates Cafe - not the latest franchised coffee ... philosophy groups. He eventually wrote "Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Look at Philosophy," which ... 11 question posed by a woman at a Socrates Cafe: Why is there so much violence in ...

Article: Socrates Cafe at Waterford Library
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  December 9, 2008 ;     313 words ...WATERFORD - A Socrates Cafe gathering will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan ... The theme for the first meeting is "What is good government?" Socrates Cafe are gatherings around the world where people from different backgrounds ...

Article: SHOWDOWN AT THE SOCRATES CAFE
The Boston Globe;  March 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS'S 2001 book "Socrates Cafe" helped launch scores of regular philosophical salons ... as humanism, naturalism, or Hegelianism. Is there a Socrates cafe here? PHILLIPS: Not yet, and I can't figure out why ...

Article: Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy.(Review) ...
Book;  March 1, 2001 ;     490 words ...Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy Christopher Phillips W.W. Norton 224 pages In an era in which writers haul out tales of the extreme ...

Article: BOOK REVIEW: 'Socrates Cafe' serves up a weak brew
University Wire;  May 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Christopher Phillips in his attempted romp through the philosophical canon. Phillips has taken on an ambitious project with Socrates Cafe. He wants to steal philosophy back from the ivory tower. To anyone who has ever fallen asleep while a professor expounds ...