It’s Five O’clock Somewhere
“Beer and Trembling” and other bars philosophy professors opened after being denied tenure. (via Mark Alfano)
Suggestions—for other bars or the drinks served at them—welcome in the comments.
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The First Critiki
Martini Heidegger’s, where, ironically, the purity of the gin is adulterated with Bing (cherries) and Lime (twists).
Gadamergarita
You should go to Aristotle’s bar, Summon Bonum. It has everything. They have an awesome Eudamonia Hour there.
World as Will and Fermentation.
Plato’s Hopology.
Not a bar, but an actual wine: Critique of Pure Riesling. The vineyard may have gone out of business, though …
Wait, no, it still exists, just doesn’t make this particular wine any more.
https://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/
Johann
The founder of bonnydoon, Randall Grahm, was a philosophy major.
Whiskey Choices, Ale Feelings
Fuzzy Nagel.
Merlot-Ponty… a phenomenal wine bar.
A Schizo Bar Pun (anagram of “Baruch Spinoza”)
David Lewis’s seasonal favorite, Modaled Wine
Parfit Van Frassen’s, where the specials include a metric ton of Bass ale, known as a SupervalueAleTon, the Beer Addition Share-a-box (this is a box for two people which is continually topped up with beer), and the Way Pungent Concoction (which is way pungent).
Hmm…Thus Drank Zarathustra? Plato’s Republick House? And something whose tag line is “Absence of evidence *is* evidence of absinthe.”
Gratitude, Reciprocity, and Mead
Hey Posteriori
(more of a dance club than a bar)
Nice.
Is “Plato’s Cave” just too obvious to have been mentioned yet?
Or “The Symposium” for that matter.
Final Draft.
Daily Booze would be my favorite place to go. Unfortunately the bartender, Justin, insists on moderation.
Awesome.
WittgenSTEINS
Jean-Paul Sot
Simone de Beervoir
The Original Position. Where nobody knows your name. Where you don’t even know your own name.
Love it!
Nozick’s drink of choice is a Bloody Mary, poured into the ocean.
Phenomenology of Spirits. (All of them half-price during happy hour.)
Proofs of the External World
specialty drink: Solipsism’s Painless, complete with its own drinking song:
http://philosophysongs.org/awhite/solip.html
Popper’s Paradox of Alcoholic Tolerance
Elements Bar and Book Cafe in Biddeford Maine is owned by a philosophy prof at University of New England. Excellent spot.
At John Stuart Bushmill’s, you get the greatest goods in the greatest tumbler.
Have a meal at Hume’s Fork, where the drinks and the laughs are in constant conjunction.
At Twin Earth, have a Hilary, which is scotch and XYZ.
At the Chinese Room, have a Searle. You don’t know what you are drinking, and your drinking may not have been intentional, but it translates to fun just as well.
At Mary’s Room, beware of the Quale–you may see colors you never imagined.
At the Elbow Room, you are free to order whatever you want, but somehow the bartenders always have your drink ready and waiting for you.
At Singer’s you never may drink alone by house rules.
At Nozick’s you may drink only alone and house rules be damned.
At Berkeley’s you actually don’t drink alone, but think you do.
At Descartes’, saying “bibo ergo sum” wins you double-bubble pricing.
At a philosopher’s bar, nothing is served which is more than 40% proof, and most is much weaker.
Rob Roy Sorenson
Peter Stinger
Bloody Mary Knows
Jack Smart and Coke
MimSosa
Sappho’s bar only serves Daiquiris.
Philosophical Intoxications (Where they only serve Duck Rabbit beer)
Wort and Hopject (Where the beer is really just undetached water, barley, hops, and yeast)
Taking Flights Seriously (Because it doesn’t matter if it’s in everyone’s interest for you to drink a whole pint)
Back in grad school, three of us decided we should open up our own microbrewery if we didn’t get jobs, and we came up with several names of our beers. One of them emailed me the list to post:
The Interpellator: ‘It Cures What Hails You’ (Brewed in 2011)
Derrida Double IPA: Specters of Sobriety
Nietzsche Basic Lager: All I Want to be is a Yessayer
Negri: Beer Beyond Beer—The Official Beer of the Multitude
Engels: The Origin of the Family—You Know What we’re Talking About
Deleuze & Guattari: Becoming Drunk—This One Will Take You to All Thousand Plateaus
Sartre: Nausea—Because Hell is Other People
G.W.F Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirits—Actualizing the Geist Since 1770
Jean-Luc Nancy: The Inoperative Academic
Martin Heidegger: The Question Concerning Mixology
Michel Foucault: ‘Sobriety’ Must Be Defended (Brewed in 2012)
Two of them were homebrewed, and here are the labels he made for them: https://twitter.com/mapplega/status/496722237496766465/photo/1
When partying into the wee hours of the morning in the clubs in Jena, I like to drink “frege bombs.”