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At the Metafizz we're proud of our literacy, with many of our members reading on a daily basis. In an effort to further this happy phenomenon, the society maintains a personal library, which can be found in room 5012 on the Arts Building's 5th floor.

• "Do you have books not found in the main College library?"
  
• "Can I borrow them quickly and easily?"
  "Are the rumours true?"
• "Are the rumours true?"

The answer to some of these questions is yes! Our whole collection can be browsed easily on Library Cat, and provided you are a member of the Metafizz, books can be borrowed by filling out the ledger on the top shelf of the big bookcase.

If something goes wrong, or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate in contacting our librarian, Gavin, at gdunphy@tcd.ie.

Simply put, the Metaphysical Society is all about being. In short, the Metafizz is. It’s been since 1929; the Trinity society of philosophy, no debating that. But what is a Metafizz, really? What can it even do? Certainly not philosophy, not just; nor only critical theory, dialectic, sociology, gender studies, avant-garde aesthetics, digital humanities, mysticism, no, not at all. Metafizz talks rather, by Erwin Schrodinger, A. C. Grayling, J.L. Austin, Alenka Zupančič, Jacqueline Rose, and Raymond Geuss, and what’s more, the Metafizz listens. Weekly you’ll find the society muttering to itself; talking of the Classics and the (Post)Moderns, Platonists and Neoplatonists, Deleuze and Guattari, East and West, What It Had For Lunch, and So On. Having its own library, which any member can access for business or pleasure, helps the conversation. Films are also screened by the society, because you know what they say about talking pictures. Most of all, the Metafizz is not a cult.