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News: Winter 1997/98

Philosophy cafés arrive in UK

Further to our article in Issue 17 about the increasing popularity of philosophy cafés in France, news of a pilot programme here in the UK. The cafés, in which people gather once a week to talk philosophy, drink coffee and meet like-minded souls, have thrived in France. There are now reported to be at least 80 in France, 20 in Paris alone. On the 15th of November, London got its own Café de Philosophe, (somehow gaining the less exalted title ‘Brain Breakfast’) at the Institute Français. This, the first of four Saturday morning meetings, was hosted by Gale Prawda, who studied in the Sorbonne under Paul Ricoeur.

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