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Philosophy Book Club
2026-08-04 19:00:00 2026-08-04 20:30:00 America/Chicago Philosophy Book Club Join us as we delve deeply into various topics of philosophical thought. Main Library - Conference Room

Tuesday, August 04
7:00pm - 8:30pm

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Conference Room

Join us as we delve deeply into various topics of philosophical thought.

For the first of our quarterly meetings we are going to talk about the rise of AI.  We will discuss its morality, is AI sentient, at what point would AI be considered human, and much more.  Readings will be short essays written by modern philosophers which will be emailed out after you sign up.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs & Discussion Groups |

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