This meetup consists of different groups of people reading certain material to different degrees of depth and intensity. Books we've read in the past include Descartes' 'Meditations', Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding', Kant's '1st Critique', Kant's 'Prolegomena', Heidegger's 'Being and Time', Husserl's 'Logical Investigations', Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit', Marx's 'Capital', and many others. From time to time new groups are formed and remain open for awhile to newcomers. If yo …

  Writing Hemingway/Fitzgerald   We are a group of serious minded writers focused on publishing our work;  socializing takes place outside the meetup time. Members rarely miss a meetup.   We keep in small groups where everyone knows your name and you are an integral part of the discussions.  Nobody is meant to feel like they are a beginner or an outsider. We are one of the few groups that meet at an urban writers colony in Manhattan.  This gives us exposure to many successful writers who publish …

"To philosophize, we may now say, is an extraordinary questioning into the extraordinary." -- Martin Heidegger, 1935 * * * "The critique of scientism within phenomenology does not seek to refute or negate the results of scientific research in the name of some mystical apprehension of the unity of man and nature, or whatever. Rather, it simply insists that science does not provide the primary or most significant access to a sense of ourselves and the world. Anti-scientism does not at all entail a …