Sunday, June 25, 2017
No Meeting on June 30
We are taking the day off for the 4th of July weekend.
Be thinking about topic recommendations for July 7!
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Meeting Reminder -- June 23
Your next summer weekly reminder --
We will convene Friday, June 23, 2017 from 9:45am until 11:45am. Our meeting place is the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, on the second floor.
This meeting will be devoted to civilization. If there are other topics you wish to discuss, either post your suggestions in the comment section at the web page or send an email response to jimmonomoy@gmail.com
See our website at
https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com
Please note, we are meeting WEEKLY, although the catalog showed, in error, Bi-weekly.
Friday, June 16, 2017
More Heuristics -- Stepwise Refinement
A famous computer science paper, http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/wirth-refinement.html
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Rinse
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Friday, June 9, 2017
Next Topic, Heuristics -- for June 16
Heuristics (rules of thumb, problem solving approaches, steps, refinement)
With the use of heuristics anybody can think like a philosopher!
[G]eneralisable, all-purpose techniques for the proper conduct of thought, whatever the topic ... can be utilised by non-philosophers too.
https://aeon.co/essays/with-the-use-of-heuristics-anybody-can-think-like-a-philosopher?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2641c6cfe7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2641c6cfe7-68613613
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With the use of heuristics anybody can think like a philosopher!
[G]eneralisable, all-purpose techniques for the proper conduct of thought, whatever the topic ... can be utilised by non-philosophers too.
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Next Topic -- for June 9
In our excellent first summer meeting, we opened the can of worms labeled "Epistemology." As has happened previously, our talk led us to Bloom's Taxonomy. We saw that there are many different ways of looking at this collection of ideas, so we decided to make BT itself the next topic.
