[FRIAM] Opportunity to join a discussion about Charles Sanders Peirce

[Robert Wall]

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 <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Robert,
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> I apologize for asking a dumb question about SF Philosophers.  I didn’t
> see the link (as a link).
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> I look forward to meeting you.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert
> Wall
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 25, 2017 8:46 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Opportunity to join a discussion about Charles Sanders
> Peirce
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> FYI.
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> 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.
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> Nick, if you are in town, the group would definitely benefit from your
> attendance ...
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> Robert
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