This is a one-day intensive workshop that is focused on helping participants more readily, fruitfully, and confidently study philosophy outside of the structures of traditional academia. Many people have a strong desire to study philosophy, but they're not sure where or how to start. Or they encounter difficulties, obstacles, and uncertainties that hold them back. Some wonder whether they're "doing it right", or making sufficient progress in their studies. Others are looking for where they can find resources, interlocutors, or communities.

This workshop is intended to help participants out with all of those concerns, and to provide a lot more as well. It has its origins in common questions and issues about studying philosophy, asked by people from a wide range of backgrounds, in situations ranging from talks and workshops to online ask me anything (AMA) sessions, from emails and private messages to social media posts, from individual tutorial sessions to classes I've offered.

This seminar will take place online over the course of roughly 6 or so hours. We will be meeting online using Zoom videoconferencing for three roughly 90-minute sessions, with 30-minute breaks in between the sessions.

The sessions will include some lecture and discussion, as well as plenty of opportunities for students to ask and get answers to questions, about the notions and matters we will be working through. Students are free to go on camera or not, and use their microphones or just write in the chat.

Students will also be provided with a number of downloadable resources in PDF form that they may find helpful for our discussions and for their continued study of philosophy going forward after the workshop.

Each of the 90-minute sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be added to the seminar site as a resource for students enrolled in the seminar. Students will retain access to the seminar site after the seminar takes place, so that they can go back and watch or download the resources from the seminar