Thanks to everyone who attended and generated questions and input to our club discussion on scientific explanation on Wednesday, Feb. 24th!
// Here is the link to Nancy Cartwright’s discussion group and paper (to which I referred most of my material and criticism):
*Causality: Metaphysics and Methods – Discussion Papers: www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/CPNSS-DPS/causalityDPseries.aspx
*”From Causation to Explanation and Back” by [...]

Join the Philosophy Club for a group discussion on scientific explanation this Wednesday evening. The time & date is 6:10pm this Wednesday, February 24th; and the place is E&T A420.
We will be using Carl Hempel’s 1967 article on Scientific Explanation as the point of reference for our discussion. A link to Hempel’s article is [...]

Here is an audio recorded rehearsal of a play that friends and I put on about three years back, just for fun.

It’s based on “Is GOD a Taoist?” from The Tao is silent by Raymond M. Smullyan. (C) 1977 by Raymond M. Smullyan.

Manuel de Landa speaking about the importance of Gilles Deleuze in the 21st century and the fundamentals of materialism in a seminar entitled Gilles Deleuze and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Questioning the role of structuralism and the post-modern position in philosophy, de Landa argues for a view of a materialist [...]

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 3:15pm – 5:00pm*
Location: University Student Union 307 (Pasadena Room)
Topic: Whitehead’s Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology
Please join us Tuesday, March 2 as Leemon McHenry (CSUN) offers a lecture/PowerPoint presentation on process philosophy and, particularly, Whitehead’s cosmology. …To read an introductory essay on metaphyics written by Dr. McHenry, click here. [...]

I am posting information regarding how the club may start its own chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau philosophy honor society. Included are requirements for a petition and for joining, and the benefits of being part of the philosophy honor society. We will need to generate more discussion on the potential of forming a chapter [...]

Date: Wednesday, February 17. 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: L.A. Central Library, 630 W. 5TH ST.
Topic: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Come join us for a free Q&A at the L.A. Central Library [ALOUD]
Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in human history. Was Nobel laureate [...]

Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Time: 6:10pm – 9:30pm
Location: On Campus, Room King Hall B1013
Next in our series of open discussions about philosophy in film is the classic, The Seventh Seal directed by Ingmar Bergman.

“Is it so terribly inconceivable to comprehend God with one’s senses? Why does He hide in a cloud of half-promises [...]

Water as gas!

Come join us this Friday, Feb 5 at Academy Cinemas in Pasadena for the 7:20 pm showing and coffee afterwards. It’s only $3 !