Cafe-philo in Paris

A “philosophy coffee” is an open to all philosophical discussion, organized in a coffee place or another public area. A café-philo is not an abstract conversation in a bar where one "to set the world to rights", as its name could let it believe, but rather a meeting with organized discussion, with a quite precise schedule, a selected subject and a qualified organizer. The subject is often decided jointly at the beginning of the meeting, on a list of proposals of the participants. Everyone can take part, enter and leave in it to its own way, which contributed to demystify philosophy and encouraged thousands of participants to look further into their thinking, to join again with the philosophical reading and to speak in public.
This phenomenon appeared in Paris and is compared to the literature meetings happening in XVIIIth century with Sartre and his friends.
Le Petit Ney -> It’s a small café-philo created and managed by inhabitants of the area. Opened to everyone who wants to come, traditional family cuisine is served there. All the drinks are fair-trade issued.
Metro station: Porte de Clignancourt
L’Ogre à Plumes -> It’s a place dedicated to literature. One can eat, drink, and read in the middle of comfortable bench seats and bibelots. Le Poisson Soluble is the association which takes care of the animations.
Metro station: Oberkampf
Café des Phares -> Marc Sautet was one of the pioneer of the café-philo, he animated one every Sunday morning, he died in 1998. But the café is still there and is one of the most important one.
Metro station:Bastille
Café des Deux Magots -> Nowadays the coffee place wants to keep the intellectual animation from the past century and organizes some café-philo on Sunday morning. They also organize, each year, a Deux Magots Award in arts, architecture, literature …
Metro station : Saint-Germain-des-Prés
L’Entrepôt -> Saturdays and Sundays are booked for jazz concerts or photo shoots. The café-philo takes place on Sunday mornings; the topic is usually taken from a movie. The food and the drinks are just fine.
Metro station: Pernéty
Thanks you to cdn_in_paris for the great picture