Sticks and Stones

https://philosophynow.org/issues/124/Sticks_and_Stones

Meeting May 11

meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, May 11. 

This will be the last meeting for Spring 2018.  We will resume Summer 2018 on the second Friday in June.

Our topic will be:

-- Starbucks, and Organizational Behavior

Further topics in June can be selected from this list:
-- Freedom

-- Conscious v unconscious

-- Rationality vs irrationality

-- What constitutes attention.

-- The nature of work/career.

-- Accepting limitations.

If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. See our web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Musical Topics

Classical *
Roaring Twenties Jazz
Rock
Rhythm and Blues
Childhood Music
Symphony
Jazz Piano
Big Band and Swing
Dixieland
Musicals
Chamber Music
Folk Music
Western Swing
Classical Classical
Country
Vocal Performance
Choral
Bach
Beethoven
Indian Music
Zydeco
Cajun
Irish Dance
Klezmer
Greek Dance
Hymns
Gospel


Accordian
Guitar
Bass
Drum
Piano
Vocal
Harpsichord
Computer
Keyboard
Organ
Harmonica
Gregorian Chants
Trombone

Roy Orbison
Alan Jackson
The Book of Mormon (musical)
The Messiah
Ravi Shakar
Bach Passion
Bruce Springsteen
The Damnation of Faust
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Ella Fitzgerald
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
Fiddler on the Roof

Philosophy of Music

https://youtu.be/3fdYjFirMwA

Meeting of May 4

For our next meeting, we will be at the Eastside Branch of the Lexington Public Library, 9:45am-11:45am, May 4. 

Our topic will be chosen from among your suggestions and these past recommendations:

 -- Music as inspiration, reflection of culture

 -- Starbucks, and Organizational Behavior

 -- Freedom

 -- Conscious v unconscious

 -- Rationality vs irrationality

 -- What constitutes attention.

 -- The nature of work/career.

 -- Accepting limitations.



If you have suggestions, or if you want to add to the list, please write me -- jimmonomoy@gmail.com. See our web page at https://reasonockhammencken.blogspot.com/

Intellectual Traits for Critical thinking

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/valuable-intellectual-traits/528

Valuable Intellectual Traits

Intellectual Humility: Having a consciousness of the limits of one's knowledge, including a sensitivity to circumstances in which one's native egocentrism is likely to function self-deceptively; sensitivity to bias, prejudice and limitations of one's viewpoint. Intellectual humility depends on recognizing that one should not claim more than one actually knows. It does not imply spinelessness or submissiveness. It implies the lack of intellectual pretentiousness, boastfulness, or conceit, combined with insight into the logical foundations, or lack of such foundations, of one's beliefs. Intellectual Courage: Having a consciousness of the need to face and fairly address ideas, beliefs or viewpoints toward which we have strong negative emotions and to which we have not given a serious hearing. This courage is connected with the recognition that ideas considered dangerous or absurd are sometimes rationally justified (in whole or in part) and that conclusions and beliefs inculcated in us are sometimes false or misleading. To determine for ourselves which is which, we must not passively and uncritically "accept" what we have "learned." Intellectual courage comes into play here, because inevitably we will come to see some truth in some ideas considered dangerous and absurd, and distortion or falsity in some ideas strongly held in our social group. We need courage to be true to our own thinking in such circumstances. The penalties for non-conformity can be severe. Intellectual Empathy: Having a consciousness of the need to imaginatively put oneself in the place of others in order to genuinely understand them, which requires the consciousness of our egocentric tendency to identify truth with our immediate perceptions of long-standing thought or belief. This trait correlates with the ability to reconstruct accurately the viewpoints and reasoning of others and to reason from premises, assumptions, and ideas other than our own. This trait also correlates with the willingness to remember occasions when we were wrong in the past despite an intense conviction that we were right, and with the ability to imagine our being similarly deceived in a case-at-hand. Intellectual Autonomy: Having rational control of one's beliefs, values, and inferences, The ideal of critical thinking is to learn to think for oneself, to gain command over one's thought processes. It entails a commitment to analyzing and evaluating beliefs on the basis of reason and evidence, to question when it is rational to question, to believe when it is rational to believe, and to conform when it is rational to conform. Intellectual Integrity: Recognition of the need to be true to one's own thinking; to be consistent in the intellectual standards one applies; to hold one's self to the same rigorous standards of evidence and proof to which one holds one's antagonists; to practice what one advocates for others; and to honestly admit discrepancies and inconsistencies in one's own thought and action. Intellectual Perseverance: Having a consciousness of the need to use intellectual insights and truths in spite of difficulties, obstacles, and frustrations; firm adherence to rational principles despite the irrational opposition of others; a sense of the need to struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over an extended period of time to achieve deeper understanding or insight. Confidence In Reason: Confidence that, in the long run, one's own higher interests and those of humankind at large will be best served by giving the freest play to reason, by encouraging people to come to their own conclusions by developing their own rational faculties; faith that, with proper encouragement and cultivation, people can learn to think for themselves, to form rational viewpoints, draw reasonable conclusions, think coherently and logically, persuade each other by reason and become reasonable persons, despite the deep-seated obstacles in the native character of the human mind and in society as we know it. Fairmindedness: Having a consciousness of the need to treat all viewpoints alike, without reference to one's own feelings or vested interests, or the feelings or vested interests of one's friends, community or nation; implies adherence to intellectual standards without reference to one's own advantage or the advantage of one's group.

Unconscious Bias