Business Ethics
What do we owe our customers, employees, colleagues—and ourselves when business decisions test our values?
Events • Lectures • Conversations
Ideas worth discussing.
Questions worth asking.
Philosophy becomes most interesting when it leaves the bookshelf and enters the room.
Roger Kuperways has lectured and led conversations on philosophy, ethics, meaning, mindfulness, positive thinking and the practical questions that shape the way we live.
Lectures & Conferences
Philosophy for the real world.
The original Events page recorded a series of lectures and conferences centered largely on philosophy and the problems of everyday life.
These subjects remain surprisingly current because the questions behind them do not disappear: How should we live? What gives life meaning? How do we find peace? What do we owe other people? How much of our life are we actually present for?
The subject may be philosophy. The real subject is always life.
Selected Lecture Topics
Questions Roger has explored with audiences.
Finding Peace in Your Life
A philosophical conversation about finding calm and perspective in a life that rarely becomes completely quiet.
Pre-Hellenic Philosophy
Looking back toward the early ideas and questions that helped prepare the ground for Western philosophy.
Breathing in the Present
A reflection on attention, awareness and the difficulty—and value—of actually inhabiting the moment we are living.
Mindfulness
What changes when we become more conscious of our thoughts, habits, reactions and the life taking place around us?
Positive Thinking
The possibilities and limits of optimism—and the difference between useful hope and simply denying reality.
Your Greatest Life Gift
A conversation about what is truly valuable in a human life and what we may fail to appreciate until much later.
In Search for Your Life Meaning
One of philosophy’s enduring questions: Where does meaning come from, and can it change as our lives change?
Teachings from Eastern Philosophy
Ideas from Eastern philosophical traditions and what they can teach us about attention, attachment, balance and living.
For Today's Audiences
Old questions. New conversations.
Roger’s speaking today draws on the same lifelong interests while bringing in decades of entrepreneurship, teaching at New York University, reinvention, writing and practical philosophy. Talks can be adapted for organizations, educational groups, discussion groups and other audiences.
Explore Speaking Contact RogerA Question Is A Beginning
A good lecture gives you ideas. A very good one leaves you with a question you are still thinking about tomorrow.
That is the kind of conversation Roger seeks to create.