Empowering exceptional people, Values and reflective Processes
The pathologies of academia are well known, and there are many people who would like to engage with and contribute to research but once they are outside of academia they don’t have the structures to do so. Recently there have been some new projects springing up to fill this gap, such as:
InterIntellect, where people can host and take part in online salons on any topic. The founder of this (Anna Gat) was supported by an emergent ventures grant.
The Catharine Project, which offers free Oxbridge-style tutorials and reading groups in classic works of philosophy and literature.
The Stoa—less familiar with this one but I think it’s a bit like InterIntellect.
The future fund could support more communities of this kind, and particularly help them develop beyond just learning and discussing and towards enabling members to make real research contributions. It would be important not to have all the communities funded be part of EA, as it is valuable to have many types of community coming from different intellectual perspectives.
Additional notes:
My bias here is that I really want more of these so I can be part of them and develop my research career outside of academia.
New non-academic intellectual communities
Empowering exceptional people, Values and reflective Processes
The pathologies of academia are well known, and there are many people who would like to engage with and contribute to research but once they are outside of academia they don’t have the structures to do so. Recently there have been some new projects springing up to fill this gap, such as:
InterIntellect, where people can host and take part in online salons on any topic. The founder of this (Anna Gat) was supported by an emergent ventures grant.
The Catharine Project, which offers free Oxbridge-style tutorials and reading groups in classic works of philosophy and literature.
The Stoa—less familiar with this one but I think it’s a bit like InterIntellect.
The future fund could support more communities of this kind, and particularly help them develop beyond just learning and discussing and towards enabling members to make real research contributions. It would be important not to have all the communities funded be part of EA, as it is valuable to have many types of community coming from different intellectual perspectives.
Additional notes:
My bias here is that I really want more of these so I can be part of them and develop my research career outside of academia.