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The Brian Lehrer Show / July 15, 2004

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Thursday, July 15, 2004

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Coffee and Philosophy

Who are we? What is truth? The simplest questions are sometimes the hardest to answer, but at Socrates Café, at least you can try. Founded by author Christopher Phillips, these salons have turned coffee houses, libraries, senior centers and even prisons into forums for Socratic inquiry.
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Christopher Phillips Founder and Director, Society of Philosophical Inquiry, author, Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy (W.W. Norton & Company; 1st edition, January 2004) and Socrates Cafe (W.W. Norton & Company 2001) discusses philosophy of daily life

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