Philosophy Discussion Group
Date & Time: Apr 3 2013 - 7:00pm Location: Stone Creek 140 E 27th St. (3/Lex) - REAR ROOM
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Skepticism
Please join us as we listen to a recorded lecture from the Teaching Company by Prof. Jeremy Adams, Ph.D., about the philosophical tradition of skepticism. The central issue of all forms of skepticism is: how do we know? The lecture will discuss the origins of skepticism and the major historical thinkers who championed it and how it reappeared in different guises in different eras. Cost: Participants are expected to purchase a drink or food to compensate The Stone Creek for use of their space.
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Date & Time: Oct 17 2012 - 7:00pm Location: STONE CREEK - 140 EAST 27TH ST. (3RD/LEX) - REAR ROOM
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: OCCAM'S RAZOR - WHAT IT LEAVES OUT
Cost: PLEASE PURCHASE FOOD & DRINK
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Date & Time: May 2 2012 - 7:00pm Location: STONE CREEK - 140 E27TH ST. (3RD/LEX)
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Thomas Reid and the Scottish school of Common Sense Philosophy
Please join us as we listen to a recorded lecture from the Teaching Company about Thomas Reid (1710-1796) by Daniel Robinson Ph.D. Cost: Participants are expected to purchase a drink or food to compensate The Stone Creek for use of their space.
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Date & Time: Dec 18 2011 - 6:00pm Location: Stone Creek 140 E 27th St. (3/Lex)
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Descartes – The Father of Modern Philosophy (The dream of perfect knowledge)
Descartes – The Father of Modern Philosophy Cost: Cost: Participants are expected to purchase a drink or food to compensate The Stone Creek for use of their space.
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Date & Time: Oct 10 2011 - 7:00pm Location: STONE CREEK - 140 EAST 27TH ST. = (3rd / Lex),
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Plotinus's Neo-Platonism
Cost: Participants are expected to purchase a drink or food to compensate The Stone Creek for use of their space
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Date & Time: Aug 21 2011 - 6:00pm Location: LOCATION: STONE CREEK 140 EAST 27TH ST. (3rd / Lex)
Host: ROGER SMITH
Cost: Free
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Date & Time: Jun 13 2011 - 7:00pm Location: STONE CREEK 140 EAST 27TH ST. (3rd / Lex)
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Hume’s approach to morality
Cost: Free: Remember: you must be a member to attend (though you can sign up for membership on the evening of the lecture, so come on down).
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Date & Time: Apr 25 2011 - 7:00pm Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: Quine’s Ontological Relativism (Or, He put the final nails in the coffin of logical positivism—but is it really worth the price?)
Cost: Free
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Date & Time: Feb 20 2011 - 7:00pm Location: Stone Creek Tavern, 140 east 27th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Ave.)
Host: ROGER SMITH
Subject: A.J. Ayer’s logical positivism (Or, the attempt to banish metaphysical talk once and for all fails)
Please join us as we listen to a recorded lecture from the Teaching Company about A.J. Ayer who popularized logical positivism in England and America. One of the goals of the logical positivists was the banishing all metaphysical talk such as ‘god exists’ as being meaningless and certainly not permissible when making scientific claims. Cost: Free
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Date & Time: Jan 3 2011 - 7:00pm Location: LOCATION: Stone Creek - 140 E 27th St. (3/Lex)
Subject: Are scientists simply “born again?” Thomas Kuhn: Is science simply another way of knowing.
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