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

[Robert Wall]

Oh; you already signed up, Nick!  Very cool!  😎

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Robert Wall <wallrobert7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>>
>> Clark University
>>
>> 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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