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 CritikiReport
Martini Heidegger’s, where, ironically, the purity of the gin is adulterated with Bing (cherries) and Lime (twists).Report
GadamergaritaReport
You should go to Aristotle’s bar, Summon Bonum. It has everything. They have an awesome Eudamonia Hour there.Report
World as Will and Fermentation.
Plato’s Hopology.Report
Not a bar, but an actual wine: Critique of Pure Riesling. The vineyard may have gone out of business, though …Report
Wait, no, it still exists, just doesn’t make this particular wine any more.
https://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/Report
Johann
The founder of bonnydoon, Randall Grahm, was a philosophy major.Report
Whiskey Choices, Ale FeelingsReport
Fuzzy Nagel.Report
Merlot-Ponty… a phenomenal wine bar.Report
A Schizo Bar Pun (anagram of “Baruch Spinoza”)Report
David Lewis’s seasonal favorite, Modaled WineReport
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).Report
Hmm…Thus Drank Zarathustra? Plato’s Republick House? And something whose tag line is “Absence of evidence *is* evidence of absinthe.”Report
Gratitude, Reciprocity, and MeadReport
Hey Posteriori
(more of a dance club than a bar)Report
Nice.Report
Is “Plato’s Cave” just too obvious to have been mentioned yet?Report
Or “The Symposium” for that matter.Report
Final Draft.Report
Daily Booze would be my favorite place to go. Unfortunately the bartender, Justin, insists on moderation.Report
Awesome.Report
WittgenSTEINS
Jean-Paul Sot
Simone de BeervoirReport
The Original Position. Where nobody knows your name. Where you don’t even know your own name.Report
Love it!Report
Nozick’s drink of choice is a Bloody Mary, poured into the ocean.Report
Phenomenology of Spirits. (All of them half-price during happy hour.)Report
Proofs of the External World
specialty drink: Solipsism’s Painless, complete with its own drinking song:
http://philosophysongs.org/awhite/solip.htmlReport
Popper’s Paradox of Alcoholic ToleranceReport
Elements Bar and Book Cafe in Biddeford Maine is owned by a philosophy prof at University of New England. Excellent spot.Report
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.Report
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.Report
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.Report
At a philosopher’s bar, nothing is served which is more than 40% proof, and most is much weaker.Report
Rob Roy Sorenson
Peter Stinger
Bloody Mary Knows
Jack Smart and Coke
MimSosaReport
Sappho’s bar only serves Daiquiris.Report
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)Report
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/1Report
When partying into the wee hours of the morning in the clubs in Jena, I like to drink “frege bombs.”Report