Philosophy Movie Night

Comment by Jonathan A. Smith on February 11, 2010 at 10:53am

The video for tonight will be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x9hqYkI1Aw
Daniel Dennett, Human Nature and Belief

Comment by Jonathan A. Smith on February 18, 2010 at 6:47am

The video this week is on iTunes:

"The Free Will Theorem Lectures, Part 1", John Conway
http://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/princeton.edu.27...

Comment by Jonathan A. Smith on February 25, 2010 at 6:01am

While I was always more impressed by the US tradition of philosophical pragmatism, (and my current views are a variant of analytic pragmatism) quite a lot of analytic philosophy was promoted by, and many interesting questions were raised by, the movement called Logical Positivism. This evening's philosophy movie night will examine some of the questions and attempted answers that still have quite a lot to do with how we think about the meaning of science. A. J. Ayer, talks about the origins and problems of Logical Positivism:

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMlXmLbGKJY

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQS9fFg0cGY

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6p6Y7IUrE

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cnRJGs08hE

Comment by Kate Miranda on February 25, 2010 at 6:43am

I will try to be there but might be late or missing. I have a Board Meeting tonight.

Comment by Jonathan A. Smith on March 4, 2010 at 3:22am

Tonight I would like to have a discussion on the organization of the Movie Night:
1. It seems to me that there is a lot more good material in iTunes than YouTube -- I would like to see us move to a more iTunes - centric model, but this means that participants will have to be able to download the video say, a week before hand.
2. If we do go to a more iTunes-centered model, it would also make sense to have some sort of support for people who are not avid iTunes users to help them through the process.
3. There also needs to be an easier way for participants to get involved in the selection of video. My thought is for us to decide as a group on a monthly theme, and look for video that fits that theme. Among other things to set up a web space (perhaps this group) for discussions on theme and video selections.

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