The Philosophy Cafe

Academic philosophy server made up of undergraduates, graduates, and professionals. We have reading groups!

#116 in Books

About

Community size

15.9Kmembers

Member growth

Net change: +133
7-day rate: +0.85%

Oct 4 – 11, 2026

About this data

Approximately 15,862 members in this snapshot.

Membership increased by 133 between October 4, 2026 and October 11, 2026.

Ranks #116 by membership among 698 Books servers tracked by Deepcord.

Member change includes joins and departures across observations roughly a week apart. The growth rate is normalized to seven days.

Last observed: October 11, 2026. Compared with October 4, 2026.

Server status

Partnered

Server Details

The Philosophy Cafe is a unique space – something like a years-long, ongoing virtual philosophy conference covering the entire discipline, complete with the banter and camaraderie you’d find at the bar on conference evenings. We are a philosophy-oriented community centered on Discord since 2017, and our primary goal is to make high-level discussion of philosophy accessible to everyone in an inviting space. To that end, we host dozens of active weekly reading groups on topics ranging over Aristotle, Buddhism, the philosophy of science, metaphilosophy, and so much more. Reading groups are entirely user-run, and boast hundreds of participants actively committed to reading and engaging philosophy texts, from undergraduate and graduate students to professors and autodidacts.