We will start reading one of the most influential books written by a native of Minneapolis, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974), by Robert Pirsig. This…

We are going to discuss Plato’s dialogue Phaedrus for this meeting. If you don’t already have a copy of this dialogue, it is readily available online. Project Gutenburg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1636) has…

We will finish our book, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter, by Peter Singer. The sections we haven’t read yet are Sex and Gender; Doing…

We will continue reading Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer. This time we will cover the sections on Animals, Politics, and Global…

We are reading the book Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer. This is the sort of book you can jump around in, so…

We will be starting a new book for this meeting: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (2016) by Peter Singer. This book can be purchased in…

We will conclude our discussion of Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake is known for his theory of morphic resonance, which some consider a pseudo-science in…

We will discuss chapters 4 – 8 of the book, Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery by Rupert Sheldrake. Sheldrake had no defenders in our first session on this book,…

We are starting a new book, Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery (2013), by Rupert Sheldrake. This book was originally published in Great Britain in 2012 under the title, The Science…

We will finish our book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark. The last chapters include analyses of goals and consciousness and their relation to artificial…