Oh; you already signed up, Nick! Very cool! 😎 On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Robert Wall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick, > > No worries. I am happy to tell you et al. a bit more about the *Santa Fe > Philosophical Society* that wouldn't be apparent from the website. I have > been a member of the *SFPS* for about four years and joined about a year > after we moved to Santa Fe from Austin, Texas, where I retired from Hewlett > Packard as a performance-research scientist | engineer. We most often meet > at a particular member's comfortable home, Mim's, every second Sunday of > the month for a discussion on some philosophical issue or on the works of > some philosopher that has or will be researched by a volunteer and who will > provide a 30 to 40-minute introduction to the group followed by a moderated > discussion. I have given two or three presentations to the group on topics > like Martin Heidegger's 1954 essay "The Question Concerning Technology" and > teleonomy versus teleology, to give you some quick examples. The group is > older, very friendly, and philosophically curious. Many are ex-pats from > LANL, but not all ... like me. > > If I can get a number of those among you that are interested, I can just > add you as my guest to the sign-up list. Then, if you like what you see > and hear, you can join ... but you do not have to be a member to come to > these meetings. The member headcount determines the dues that are paid > annually to the Meetup organization that maintains the web resources. > Members, or anyone, can donate a few dollars to a can, but it doesn't take > a lot of money to run this Meetup group. Mim has a very large > accommodating living room for these meetings, but we try to limit sessions > to just 25 attendees (with shoes off at the door). Parking has never been a > problem. My good friend Chris Goad--a theoretical mathematician Ph.D. > graduate from Stanford, a self-admitted Platonist, and a huge proponent of > the Computational Theory of Mind (we have argued this for nearly four years > now)--has volunteered as the session moderator. A good guy. Coffee and tea > are always available; some, like Chris Mechels, bring a beer. 😎 Many > times handouts are provided, but it is best just to print off the prepared, > linked material from the website. > > Often, there can be several much smaller (~4-5 persons) breakout subgroups > that will do a deeper dive into some philosophical topic at some other > time(s). I have been involved in several that meet weekly at the Travel > Bug for a few hours. The one I frequent seems to have turned toward > discussions in neuroscience, which I think has been motivated by early > sessions on consciousness and the Philosophy of Mind. It's all good. 😎 > > BTW, I came across FRIAM by way of Steven Guerin, to whom I wrote years > ago after reading a paper he wrote on complex adaptive systems, a > percolating interest of mine. Steven replied that *that *made six now > who read the paper, or something like that. 😊 Even as a perhaps too > infrequent contributor--but frequent reader--of the forum, I find the list > has many thoughtful contributors that seem to know one another fairly well. > And, I imagine the FRIAM at St. Johns has the same caliber of thinkers with > a similar degree of familiarity. Anyway, I've been meaning to drop by the > FRIAM group at least on my way to join the St. John's library, as they have > the best philosophical library in these parts. If memory serves, you meet > at 9:30 a.m. every Friday. > > For some reason, I thought you were on the east coast near Boston or > something like that. But, yes, I would enjoy meeting you as well, having > enjoyed your contributions to the forum, especially as you go about > explaining Peirce. So, I have been waiting for Peirce to appear on the menu > at the *SFPS* and it has finally arrived. William James, another > pragmatist, about whom I am also very curious. Dewey? Maybe, so ... > > Hope you can make it to the SFPS. The sessions never seem to disappoint. > > Cheers, > > Robert > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Robert, >> >> >> >> I apologize for asking a dumb question about SF Philosophers. I didn’t >> see the link (as a link). >> >> >> >> I will make every effort to be there. Sunday night is my cooking night >> for the extended family, but with a little planning I should be able to >> finesse it. >> >> >> >> I always imagined that you were from some far distant place! Like >> Australia, or something. Have you been here the whole time? Have you ever >> come to FRIAM? >> >> >> >> I look forward to meeting you. >> >> >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Robert >> Wall >> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:46 PM >> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Opportunity to join a discussion about Charles >> Sanders Peirce >> >> >> >> FYI. >> >> >> >> The* Santa Fe Philosophical Society* is offering a discussion session >> on Charles Sanders Peirce >> <https://www.meetup.com/SantaFe-Philosophers/events/244523385/?fromEmail=244523385&rv=ea1> >> on Sunday, November 12, 2017, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. >> >> >> >> Nick, if you are in town, the group would definitely benefit from your >> attendance ... >> >> >> >> Robert >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > >
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