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Does language impact the ontological status of a given concept?🗓️ Sept 22nd | ⏰ 6-8pm |📍Aikman’s CellarWe often use lang...
19/09/2025

Does language impact the ontological status of a given concept?
🗓️ Sept 22nd | ⏰ 6-8pm |📍Aikman’s Cellar

We often use language to speak about concepts that do not actually exist. It seems that there is a connection between the existence of things and the language we use to talk about them. When we speak about something that does not physically exist, there is a tension between the language we use and the ontological status of the subject of our speech.

Is it at all coherent for someone to say “I love unicorns” when unicorns don’t corporeally exist? If we are able to speak about a subject, then are we implying the subject’s existence? The ability to talk about a subject implies that the concept exists, but where does this conceptual existence fit into our idea of existence in general?

Join us to discuss the correlation between language and existence.

Stop and think.
— Agora

How does the religious context of life after death impact our philosophical perspectives on the topic?🗓️ Sept 15th | ⏰ 6...
14/09/2025

How does the religious context of life after death impact our philosophical perspectives on the topic?
🗓️ Sept 15th | ⏰ 6-8pm |📍Aikman’s Cellar

When we frequently discuss a given philosophical topic within the same context, our perspectives could be shaped not just by the topic but by the surrounding framework. Discussions of life after death are almost always within a religious context. Likewise, discussions of moral obligations are often concerned with law and morality.

How do these contexts within which we discuss philosophical issues shape our perspectives on the issues themselves? Would we believe something different if life after death was brought up in a scientific context? If we separated discussions of freedom from discussions of politics?

Join us to discuss the significance of context in the study of philosophy.

Stop and think.
— Agora

How does the religious context of life after death impact our philosophical perspectives on the topic?🗓️ Sept 15th | ⏰ 6...
14/09/2025

How does the religious context of life after death impact our philosophical perspectives on the topic?
🗓️ Sept 15th | ⏰ 6-8pm | 📍Aikman’s Cellar

When we frequently discuss a given philosophical topic within the same context, our perspectives could be shaped not just by the topic but by the surrounding framework. Discussions of life after death are almost always within a religious context. Likewise, discussions of moral obligations are often concerned with law and morality.

How do these contexts within which we discuss philosophical issues shape our perspectives on the issues themselves? Would we believe something different if life after death was brought up in a scientific context? If we separated discussions of freedom from discussions of politics?

Join us to discuss the significance of context in the study of philosophy.

Stop and think.
— Agora

Come join us at St. Andrew’s Brewing Co. this Thursday. This will be an opportunity to meet the new committee, learn mor...
06/09/2025

Come join us at St. Andrew’s Brewing Co. this Thursday. This will be an opportunity to meet the new committee, learn more about Agora, and get to know other students involved with the magazine and society. We will be upstairs in the Whiskey Room from 3pm until 5pm.

Agora will be making its grand return to St. Andrews on Tuesday at Freshers Fayre. Find us there to learn more about the...
05/09/2025

Agora will be making its grand return to St. Andrews on Tuesday at Freshers Fayre. Find us there to learn more about the Agora and meet some members of our newly inaugurated committee.

Keep an eye on this page for some exciting events coming up.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AGORA ISSUE V — UNCOVERUncover is about the philosophy that exists in hidden places in our lives. ...
03/07/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AGORA ISSUE V — UNCOVER

Uncover is about the philosophy that exists in hidden places in our lives. Where, and how, do we engage in this method of inquiry without being aware of it?

We invite you to step behind the curtain and share what you uncover. We are looking for short stories, essays, poetry, and photography which push our conversations below the surface.

🗓️ Submissions due: August 8th!
đź“Ą Submit through Google Form in IG bio.

AGORA COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS With great excitement, we are announcing the opening of new roles within the Agora committe...
30/05/2025

AGORA COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS

With great excitement, we are announcing the opening of new roles within the Agora committee as we move forward into a new academic year. There are currently three available roles which are described in detail in the application form. We look forward to receiving your applications.

– Agora

Thank You for an Incredible Discussion!Last night’s conversation on The Weight of Meaninglessness was our most passionat...
25/02/2025

Thank You for an Incredible Discussion!

Last night’s conversation on The Weight of Meaninglessness was our most passionate and engaged yet—huge thanks to everyone who joined in!

While most affirmed the power of subjective human meaning, our debate revealed a fundamental and unresolvable divide: Is truth legitimate because it aligns with the structure of universe, or because it holds significance for human life? Does meaning require an external foundation, or is it legitimised through personal and collective experience?

These tensions remain unresolved, but that’s what makes the discussion worth having. See you at the next agora—where the questions never stop.

Engage, reflect, and challenge what you know.
—Agora.

Thank you to everyone who joined last night’s discussion!We reflected on the purpose of Agora—why we gather, why these c...
04/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined last night’s discussion!

We reflected on the purpose of Agora—why we gather, why these conversations matter. Agora exists to bring life-defining questions into the public sphere, freeing them from the margins of private thought. It’s a space to challenge, to question, and to think for oneself—to make life one’s own rather than inherit it uncritically.

Your voices shape this project. Let’s keep pushing the conversation forward. See you next time!

P.S. Thank you for bringing great ideas throughout the night

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our first Agora social this past Monday! It was great to see so many new faces ...
18/09/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our first Agora social this past Monday! It was great to see so many new faces and those we missed from last year!

If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry - join us next Monday at 6pm in Aikman’s Cellar for more philosophy and pints! 🫶🏼

Agora's Issue 3 is still open for submissions, offering a ÂŁ50 prize to the best work!Submissions should be sent to agora...
04/08/2024

Agora's Issue 3 is still open for submissions, offering a ÂŁ50 prize to the best work!

Submissions should be sent to [email protected]

Check out our website at https://www.agorastandrews.org/

In Agora we hope to inspire bold and original voices by offering ourselves as a platform for absolute authenticity. We dare you to question and to understand life not as an inheritor of knowledge, rationale, and belief, but as a producer. Face the void that comes with scepticism and you will be rewarded with a deliberate and insightful selfhood. Agora's Issue 3 offers the perfect chance to do just so.

Ask yourself the questions above, and unearth the roots of your answers, see whether they are inherited assumptions; whether the understanding that founded them is vague and unarticulated. Part of the journey of self-becoming is to break free from these assumptions and strive to find our own answers, bound only by your creativity and experience, informed by rigorous dialogue and criticality.

For Agora's Issue 3, feel free to submit a photo or an essay, a poem or a short story, a piece of sheet music or a painting. The world is yours to devour, no matter how naĂŻve one may be. In Agora, we believe that we cannot wait until we are certified geniuses before we can confidently express ourselves. We must all start from somewhere, so start now! Start with Agora Issue 3

Sincerely,
—Agora Committee

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