Vermonters expand their minds at Public Philosophy Week, a statewide series of talks and panels that kicked off on April 14 and continues through April 20. At Burlington’s Venetian Cocktail & Soda Lounge, Seven Days’ own Melissa Pasanen moderates a conversation between farmer Aaron Carroll (pictured) and chef Kevin Markey about lab-grown meat. Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, expounds at Autumn Records in Winooski. Thinkers learn Aristotle’s views on friendship and its relationship to justice during Martha Woodruff’s address at Middlebury’s Little Seed Coffee Roasters. And Everywhere Philosophy reexamines “The Twilight Zone” in light of the AI boom at Brattleboro’s Brooks Memorial Library.
