Events
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Philosophy Study Group (session 2)
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe are reading The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper. The next meeting will cover chapters 6 and 7. I would like to mention that the people who attend our meetings are definitely not from any sort of, let us say, fecal hollow. They're really more Norwegian-like. You are welcome to join us no…
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History Study Group
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will finish our reading of The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf. Even if you haven't read any of this book, it is easy enough reading that you could do the whole thing before the 15th. Then you will understand how extraordinary, influential, prolific, and, in some ways, strange…
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Philosophy Study Group (Session 1)
Curran's Restaurant, 42nd and Nicollet in MinneapolisWe will be reading chapter 8 of The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper. This chapter goes into the details of his attempts to define what is meant by probability as it is used in science. It is a long chapter and includes some mathematics. Knowing that there are some who would prefer not…
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