Upcoming Topics

   

Several group members have expressed interest in presenting topics at upcoming meetings:

• Stuart Cooke -- The Nature of Society and the Change of Social Systems
• Ernest Mize -- Ideas Have Consequences -- March 27
• Seetha Subramanian and Diana Rast -- The Nature of Reality
• Edwin Hackney -- Mind/Body

Here are a few topics that I may be covering in the next few meetings,unless someone wants to claim the topic area for his own:

• Paine, Burke, Jefferson, and Franklin on the French Revolution
• Critical Thinking
• Logic Fallacies
• Movie Reviews
• Mark Twain
• Humor in Philosophy
• Law, Legislation, Ethics, Morality
•  ... any of these can be done as panels.  Any volunteers?

First Meeting -- Mencken

Freedom vs Determination

 

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.

 -- Henry Louis Mencken

 

First Meeting -- Ockham

Ockham's Razor 

Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.
 -- William of Ockham
or

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.

or

The most simple solution that fits all the facts is most likely to be the correct solution.

First Meeting -- Page One

 

Ockham (L), Mencken (R)

First Meeting -- Page Two