APPA Agora #1: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Pierre Grimes APPA Channel 2023-03-03 | This free monthly public event is presented by the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). This inaugural APPA Agora is hosted by Lou Marinoff, and features special guest Pierre Grimes, founder of the Noetic Society and the first philosophical counselor of the 20th century. Pierre talks about WWII, counseling alcoholics, his friendship with Alan Watts, LSD, Homer, Plato, Socrates, Parmenides, Socratic Midwifery, the meaning of dreams, and more ... followed by a Q&A with an array of philosophical practitioners.
APPA Book Club, #1: Hosted by Rick Repetti. Featured Guest: Aleksandar Fatic APPA Channel 2024-09-18 | 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 Adelaide, Charles University in Prague, Anglo-American Colleege in Prague, and other institutions until his return to Serbia. Upon return he had a lengthy employment stint at the Institute for International Politics and Economics, where he performed all institute functions, ranging from researcher to the Institute’ s Director, Head of the Research Board, and member of the Governing Board. Over the past years he has held numerous guest lectures and visiting positions, at institutions including University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), King’s College in London, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Helsinki, EBS University in Wiesbaden, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and numerous other universities. He specializes in integrative philosophy with an emphasis on philosophy of psychology and psychiatry, philosophical practice and political philosophy. He has been a Certified Counselor and Fellow of the American Philosopher Practitioners’ Association (APPA) since 2011. His personal website is http://aleksandarfatic.net.
APPA Agora #13: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Peter Raabe APPA Channel 2024-06-02 | Born in 1949, Peter B. Raabe received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada for his research in Philosophical Counseling. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy from the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. For twenty-five years he taught a variety of philosophy courses including philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and reasoning. He developed and taught a specialized course in philosophy for counsellors and psychotherapists. He facilitated a public philosophy café in North Vancouver for eight years, and established three mental health discussion groups.He is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, international conference presentations, and workshops on the theme of philosophy’s role in mental healthcare; and he’s on the editorial boards of several international publications. He is the author of three books: Philosophy’s Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy (Jason Aronson); Issues in Philosophical Counseling (Praeger); and Philosophical Counseling: Theory and Practice, (Praeger). The Korean National Academy of Sciences (NAS) selected the translation of this book as one of the outstanding books of 2011. They allocated 15,000,000 won (approx. $15,000 CDN) to purchase it and distribute it to universities, public libraries, and research centres throughout the nation. It is available in Complex Chinese, Italian, and Japanese translations. He is co-editor of the book Women in Philosophical Counseling (Lexington); and is a contributing author and editor of Philosophical Counseling and the Unconscious (Trivium). He is a certified philosophical counselor, and lives in North Vancouver on the Pacific coast of Canada.Web site: http://www.peterraabe.ca e-mail: peter.raabe@ufv.ca
APPA Agora #12: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Anders Lindseth APPA Channel 2024-04-24 | Anders Lindseth (1946) is in Norway Professor Emeritus for practical philosophy at the Centre for Practical Knowledge, Nord University. He has been teacher of philosophy at the Universities of Oslo and Tromsø, and professor at the Department for Health Care Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tromsø. He has been guest professor for practical knowledge at the School of Design and Crafts, Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University. After retirement he moved to Munich where he is living with his German wife; two sons have left home. In Munich he has been teaching ethics and philosophy of education at Hochschule für Philosophie. Since 1971 Lindseth is a meditation teacher of the Norwegian Acem-School of Meditation, and now he is teaching meditation at Münchner Volkshochschule. 1989 Lindseth opened a Philosophical Practice in Tromsø and he is now offering such practice/counselling in Munich. He has been a member of the board of the International Society for Philosophical Practice (ISPP) and he is now a member of the scientific board of ISPP. Since 2017 he is teaching philosophical practice at Vienna University. Since 1997 he has been participating as practical philosopher at the annual International Meetings on the Treatment of Psychosis. In March 2019 he became honorary member of the Cuban Psychiatric Society.
APPA Agora #11: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Bill Irwin APPA Channel 2024-04-05 | William Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and professor of philosophy at King’s College in Pennsylvania. He originated the philosophy and popular culture genre of books with Seinfeld and Philosophy (Open Court, 2000). Many other volumes followed. Currently he is the general editor of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Irwin is the author of The Free Market Existentialist: Capitalism without Consumerism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and God Is a Question, Not an Answer (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). He has also published two novels and two collections of poetry. Irwin has been interviewed by CNN, NPR, MSNBC, and the BBC. He blogs for PsychologyToday.com and his essays have been published by The New York Times.
APPA Agora #10: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Ida Jongsma APPA Channel 2024-02-25 | Ida Jongsma: was in 1983 the co-founder of the Dutch Philosophical Counseling movement in the Netherlands. After her M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam she started in 1989 the Dutch Association for Philosophical Practice with colleagues. In 1988 Hotel de Filosoof (The Philosopher Hotel) was opened in Amsterdam with Ida Jongsma as co-owner. The hotel was the venue for many philosophical group activities for nearly twenty years. Among which courses for beginning philosophical counselors, training workshops,and lectures in the weekly Philo Cafe. Ida Jongsma worked with students, health care groups, in profit and nonprofit organizations.Post doc course in business ethics ‘the seven step program’ at Nijenrode University was used for trainings at Banks, Tax organization, Police academy etc. After 2007 Ida Jongsma worked as a volunteer for PUM, which is a non profit organization of the Ministry of Finance. They send professionals to undeveloped countries to advice and set up small businesses. She worked for instance in Bhutan, Mongolië, Bangladesh, Burkino Faso and other countries.
APPA Agora #9: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Tom Morris APPA Channel 2024-02-01 | Tom Morris is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, the recipient of a double PhD from Yale University, and holds honorary doctorates in recognition for his public work. After a first career at Notre Dame, he went on to become a public philosopher, authoring so far over 32 published books, including national bestsellers, while bringing philosophy to many of the best known companies in the world. Tom’s the author of books like True Success, If Aristotle Ran General Motors, Philosophy for Dummies, The Stoic Art of Living, If Harry Potter Ran General Electric, the highly praised short novel, The Oasis Within, a book about Steve Jobs called Socrates in Silicon Valley, and a book about dealing with difficult and disruptive change called Plato’s Lemonade Stand. His work has been covered by most American television networks like ABC, NBC, and CNN, CNBC, and in most major newspapers and magazines around the world, including the New York Times and the Economist. He’s also been described as the world’s happiest philosopher.
APPA Agora #8: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Greg Sadler APPA Channel 2023-12-13 | Greg Sadler is the president of ReasonIO, adjunct professor of philosophy and humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and the co-host of the Wisdom for Life radio show. His popular YouTube channel has nearly 3,000 videos, and has drawn 14 million total views. He is a member of the Modern Stoicism team, and edited Stoicism Today from 2016-2022. He recently finished the Half Hour Hegel project, providing line-by-line commentary on the Phenomenology of Spirit.After serving in the US Army as a combat engineer, Greg earned a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Lakeland University, then his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has been a faculty fellow at Notre Dame University’ Erasmus Institute, a visiting scholar at the European Graduate School, a Charles Chesnutt Library fellow, and recently completed the LEAP Institute for non-profit leaders at the Kacmarcik Center for Human Performance.His publications include one book, two edited volumes, dozens of academic articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, and numerous pieces written for popular audiences.His philosophical counseling and consulting work focuses on the emotions, ethics, leadership, and specifically on anger management. His past and present clients include corporate executives and leaders, CEOs of smaller and start-up companies, psychotherapists, psychologists, medical professionals, professors, lifelong learners, and students.
APPA Agora #7: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Vaughana Feary APPA Channel 2023-10-12 | Vaughana Feary PhD received her doctorate from the University of Arizona. Her original AOS was Ethics, Social/ Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. She often spent extended periods in Europe, Asia, and Africa, with New Orleans as home base, where she taught Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Southern University during the turbulent early seventies when all Louisiana state universities were all under Court Order to integrate. After her move to New Jersey, she taught Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.Vaughana is a former President of the American Society for Philosophy Counseling and Psychotherapy and is Vice President and a founding Board member of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). She is Program Director and a founding Board member of Excalibur: A Center for Applied Ethics.Vaughana’s practice and research interests have often centered on the application of philosophical practice to resolving social problems: crime and recidivism, substance abuse, deficiencies in our mental health system, homelessness etc. She has designed and delivered numerous programs for corporations, correctional facilities, hospitals, and homeless shelters. She is always interested in pioneering new areas of philosophical practice. She was the first to do philosophical group counseling in prisons and with cancer patients, and the first in the US to teach a university course in philosophical counseling, Other long term interests are crisis, refugee, and multicultural counseling, as well as the use of art and literature in philosophical counseling.She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters including recently: “Philosophical Practice from Feminist Perspectives” in Practicing Philosophy ed. Alexandar Fatic and Lydia Amir, “Philosophical Interventions with Psychiatric Patients” in Philosophical Practice . Vol.3, November 2018), and “ Philosophical Counseling in the Renaissance and Its Use in Shakespeare’s Othello” Philosophical Practice, Bol.17 March 2022Vaughana is currently taking a leave of absence from group counseling and organizational consulting to pursue other interests (poetry, painting and photography) as well as to explore the creation of a new non-profit structure which will support in-person pilot programs (which can be replicated elsewhere) integrating philosophical practice with various therapies and social objectives.
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Carol Goulds presentation APPA Channel 2023-10-01 | "Philosophical Counseling as a Tool for Addressing Body Dysmorphia"
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Carol Gould, Q&A APPA Channel 2023-10-01 | "Philosophical Counseling as a Tool for Addressing Body Dysmorphia", questions & answers
APPA Agora #6: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with George Hole APPA Channel 2023-08-11 | George Hole is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at Buffalo State College and Chair of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department. His poems have been published in Cimmaron Review, Rapport, Stone Drum, Earth’s Daughters, and Sugar Mule, as well as the Buffalo News. He is the author of Thinking Well about What Matters (out of print) and a member of the Buffalo State Rooftop Poets. Dr. Hole graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in physics and a Ph.D. in philosophy, and is also in the U. of R.’s Sports Hall of Fame for records in football and track. His courses in Zen Buddhism, Existentialism, the philosophy of love and sex, moral issues, and the history of the Greek philosophers help inform his philosophical practice. He has advanced training from the Ellis Institute in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and runs a philosophical counseling practice. He was the keynote speaker at Critical Thinking, the first conference of the New York State College English Association.
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Jörn W. Kroll, Q&A APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | Jaspers’ Philosophy of Existenz and Its Manifold Value for Philosophical Practice, questions & answers
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Jörn W. Krolls presentation APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "Jaspers’ Philosophy of Existenz and Its Manifold Value for Philosophical Practice"
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Shanti Jones, Q&A APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "The Pragmatics of Eudaimonia: Lessons from Aristotle and Jane", questions and answers
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Shanti Joness presentation APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "The Pragmatics of Eudaimonia: Lessons from Aristotle and Jane"
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Greg Sadler, Q&A APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "Philosophical Resources for Understanding and Managing Anger", questions and answers
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Greg Sadlers presentation APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "Philosophical Resources for Understanding and Managing Anger"
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Kevin Cales, Q&A APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "When the Client Does Not Know: Regressive Abstraction and Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue in Client Counseling", questions and answers
APPA Annual Meeting 2023: Kevin Cales presentation APPA Channel 2023-07-04 | "When the Client Does Not Know: Regressive Abstraction and Nelsonian Socratic Dialogue in Client Counseling"
APPA Agora #5: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Ibrahim Ozdemir APPA Channel 2023-07-01 | I am a professor of philosophy at Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. I was the Founding President of Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep (2010-2014). Presently, I am a visiting professor at Clark University, Worcester, MA.I was a member of the drafting team of the Islamic Declaration for Global Climate Change (2015), Environment, Religion, and Culture in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2016), published by UNEP. Presently, I am a core member of the draft team of al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth document will be presented to the UN.My research interests include normative ethics, value theory, environmental ethics, environment and religion, interfaith dialogue, practical ethics, philosophical counseling, critical thinking, and Islamic philosophy.I have taught philosophical counseling since 2016 at Uskudar University at undergrad and graduate levels.I gave lectures and thought courses as visiting professor at Harvard University (1998), Hartford University, Hartford Seminary (2001-2003), and Abo Akademi University, Turku-Finland (2018-2020).My books include Care ofr Creation. An Islamic Perspective, UK (2022), Rumî and Confucius on Meaning of Life, Amazon: New Jersey, 2020; The Ethical Dimension of Human Attitude Towards Nature, 2nd edition, Insan Publications: Istanbul, 2008, and Globalization, Ethics and Islam, editors: Ian Markham and Ibrahim Ozdemir, Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005.I have published many articles. I also translated many texts on philosophical counseling into Turkish.
APPA Agora #4: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Rick Repetti APPA Channel 2023-06-03 | Rick Repetti is Professor of Philosophy at CUNY/Kingsborough, a VP of APPA, an APPA-certified Philosopher Counselor, trained as a Gestalt therapist, a certified life coach and CBT practitioner, and a multiple-decades practitioner and instructor of yoga and meditation. His most recent publication is the edited collection, The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022). His other publications include three books, the monograph, Buddhism, Meditation, and Free Will: A Buddhist Theory of Mental Freedom (Routledge 2019), the edited collection, Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency? (Routledge 2017), and the monograph, The Counterfactual Theory of Free Will: A Genuinely Deterministic Form of Soft Determinism (Lambert Academic Press 2010), and dozens of peer reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections. He is also Chief Philosophy Officer for a tech start-up company named Knowledgecoin.io, developing a decentralized truth-validation platform on the blockchain. Former Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he leads weekly meditations for CUNY and for the Vervaeke Foundation, and is a founding member of the CUNY Mindfulness and Contemplative Studies initiative. Rick has appeared on dozens of podcasts, including Voices with Vervaeke. He’s also a 4th degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a former marathoner.
APPA Agora #3: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Lydia Amir APPA Channel 2023-05-08 | Lydia Amir is a French-Israeli professor of philosophy, currently teaching in the department of Philosophy at Tufts University and at graduate programs of Philosophy in Romania and Mexico. She also serves as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, China. Amir has worked as a philosophical practitioner for the last 30 years. She is President of the Israeli Association for Philosophical Practice, a Director of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, founding President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor, and member of various academic boards and committees. In addition to many articles and essays, Amir has published seven books, and is working under contract on several additional manuscripts. A board member of various journals, she serves as editor of two journals, one of which she founded, along with three book series; notably, the Lexington Series in Philosophical Practice.
APPA Agora #2: Philosophy for Everyday Life, with Massimo Pigliucci APPA Channel 2023-04-03 | This free monthly public event is presented by the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (APPA). APPA Agora #2 is hosted by Lou Marinoff, and features special guest Massimo Pigliucci. Massimo 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 How to Live a Good Life (Vintage, co-edited with Skye Cleary and Dan Kaufman). Massimo will talk about his life and work, and will dialogue with participants during a Q&A.
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Shanti APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminating discussion of Shanti's Presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Shanti Jones (USA) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #6: Shanti Jones, "Complex Moral Narratives in Philosophical Counseling – Insights from Henry James"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Massimo APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminating discusssion of Massimo's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Massimo Pigliucci (USA) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #5: Massimo Pigliucci, "The Quest for Character — What the Greco-Romans Can Teach Us about Leadership and Everyday Life"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Skye APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminating discusssion of Skye's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Skye Cleary (USA) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #4: Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir & the Quest for Fulfillment"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Simon APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminatibng discusssion of Simon's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Simon Kenion (Spain) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #3: Simon Kenion, "Working [it] Out: What Actually Makes us Exercise?"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Jeremy APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminating disucsssion of Jeremy's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Jeremy Gallegos (USA) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #2: Jeremy Gallegos, "Hume's Descriptive Psychology and the Artificial Virtues as Applied to the Philosophical Practice of Consulting"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Q&A with Carolina APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Illuminating discussion of Carolina's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 16, 2022: Carolina Beaini (Canada) APPA Channel 2022-08-16 | Presentation #1: Carolina Beaini, "Aesthetic Tools for Freeing the Mind in Philosophical Practice"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Q&A with Shanti Jones APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Illuminating disucssion of Shanti's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Shanti Jones (USA) APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Presentation #5, Shanti Jones, "Measure for Mis-measure"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Q&A with John Tambornino APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Illuminating discussion of John Tambornino's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: John Tambornino (USA) APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Presentation #4, John Tambornino, "Finding Our Way About: Philosophical Practice in Religious Community"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Q&A with Carolina APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Illuminating disucsssion of Carolina's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021, Carolina Beaini (Canada) APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Presentation #3, Carolina Beaini, "Expressions, Equations and Functions: Strategies in Clinical Philosophy"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 2021: Q&A with Alexander APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Illuminating discussion of Alexander Gooch's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Alexander Gooch (UK) APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Presentation #2, Alexander Gooch, "Philosophy in the Two Halves of Life"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Q&A with Lydia APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Illuminating discussion of Lydia's presentation
APPA Annual Meeting, July 17, 2021: Lydia Amir (Israel & USA) APPA Channel 2021-08-07 | Presentation #1, Lydia Amir, "Between Truth and Falsehood: The Special Case of Illusion as a Challenge for the Wise."
APPA Annual Meeting, July 11, 2020: Shanti Jones APPA Channel 2020-09-20 | Presentation #6: Shanti Jones (USA), "Literature: a Useful Tool for the Philosophical Counselor During a Pandemic:"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 11, 2020: André de Almeida APPA Channel 2020-09-20 | Presentation #5: André de Almeida (Brazil), "Philosophical Practice as a Way of Supporting Business Executives During the Global Pandemic"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 11, 2020: Ashwini Mokashi APPA Channel 2020-09-20 | Presentation #4: Ashwini Mokashi (USA), "Wisdom Leads to Happiness"
APPA Annual Meeting, July 11, 2020: Massimo Pigliucci & Skye Cleary APPA Channel 2020-09-20 | Presentation #3: Massimo Pigliucci (USA) & Skye Cleary (USA), "How to Live a Good Life"
