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| Date and Location Change! - Debate on God at the November Examined Life Philosophy Meetup - Earlier this week, I changed the location and day of the debate to a better venue that will accommodate the number of people we are expecting (50+!). The event will be held on We | David V. | Nov 11, 2009 |
| November 19th Philosophy Meetup - considering venue change - Hello fellow thinkers, So far, 19 people have RSVP'ed yes and 16 maybe for this month's meetup - a debate between myself and Dr Joe Hinman on the existence of God. That is very exciting, as it promises to be our biggest meetup ever. | David V. | Nov 7, 2009 |
| November event: Debate: There is a rational warrant for belief in God. - This month, I will debate Dr. Joe Hinman on the topic of the existence of God. Joe has a Master of Divinity degree from Perkins School of Theology and he's ABD in a PhD in Intellectual History from UTD. He has a blog at | David V. | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] How is moral knowledge possible? -- The Dallas Examined Life Philosophy Group October Meetup - Really sorry I missed it. Turned out I had another commitment to do tonight. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, David V. < [address removed] > wrote: | Brenda Tanner | Oct 15, 2009 |
How is moral knowledge possible? -- The Dallas Examined Life Philosophy Group October Meetup - The question for tonight's discussion shall be: "How is moral knowledge possible?" Here is a helpful reading: http://plato.stanford.edu/entr ies
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David V. | Oct 15, 2009 |
| The Dallas Examined Life Philosophy Group: free will discussion questions for Sept 17th. - Questions for tonight: *What does the "free" in "free will" refer to - freedom from what, or freedom to do that? *Is there a root cause of human choice/action? *Are some choices/actions more primary t...han others? | David V. | Sep 17, 2009 |
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Tonight's philosophy group August Meetup topic: the problem of universals - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.meetup.com/ExaminedLife/calendar/10894226/ When: August 20, 2009 7:00 PM Where:
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David V. | Aug 20, 2009 |
| Tonight's meetup topic: Tolerance and intolerance - When : July 16, 2009 7:00 PM Where : Half-Price Books 5803 E. Northwest Hwy. Dallas, TX 75231 214.379.8000 This last-minute email is just a list of some resources you can take a look at or bring to tonight | David V. | Jul 16, 2009 |
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Topic for tonight's Philosophy Group June Meetup: Egalitarianism - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.meetup.com/ExaminedLife/calendar/10467346/ Instead of questions: I have three brief readings o
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David V. | Jun 18, 2009 |
| RE: [philosophy-156] Reminder: Scottish Philosophy Lecture 05/26 @ 7:30 pm - Preview not available | Ken Ess | May 22, 2009 |
| Reminder: Scottish Philosophy Lecture 05/26 @ 7:30 pm - When I asked if anyone was going to this, no one seemed to recall Lisa's email so, as promised, here is the information: Tuesday, | Rinda Gulley | May 22, 2009 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Thursday's philosophy Topic: What use is philosophy? - David, I will be at the DSO so I cannot make it. Next | Ruth | May 21, 2009 |
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Thursday's philosophy Topic: What use is philosophy? - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.meetup.com/ExaminedLife/calendar/10203391/ When: May 21, 2009 7:00 PM Where: Half-P
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David V. | May 20, 2009 |
| New Meetup: Scottish Philosophy Lecture hosted by Dallas Philosopher's Forum - Announcing a new Meetup for The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group! What: Scottish Philosophy Lecture hosted by Dallas Philosopher's Forum When: May 26, 2009 7:30 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Meet | Lisa | May 14, 2009 |
| Meetup details changed: The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group March Meetup - Hi all, There has been some confusion as to the date of March's meeting. The date for this meetup has been changed to Friday, March 13th. The meeting is occurring in the 2nd rather than the 3rd week of the month because I am moder | Lisa | Feb 26, 2009 |
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Meetup details changed: The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group February Meetup - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.meetup.com/ExaminedLife/calendar/9534430/ When: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00 PM
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David V. | Feb 17, 2009 |
| Meetup details changed: Thursday's Examined Life Philosophy Group Meetup - When : January 15, 2009 7:00 PM Where : Half-Price Books 5803 E. Northwest Hwy. Dallas, TX 75231 214.379.8000 Some of you may be confused because the topic of this month's meetup is the same as last month. | David V. | Jan 14, 2009 |
| DFW Philosophy group December topic: justice and punishment - Here are the questions we will discuss tonight: Justice and punishment I want to examine the philosophical and political basis for the concept of punishment. In particular, I want to ask whether there is any moral basis for i | David V. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Thursday's philosophy meetup topic: truth and certainty - Here are the questions we will discuss during tomorrow's discussion on truth and certainty: Truth: What does it mean to say that a statement is "true?" Does a claim about the truth of a statement refer to | David V. | Nov 19, 2008 |
| Just for fun: choose your own member title. - Hello fellow philosophers, You may have noticed that under my name, Meetup shows a Title field which says "Benevolent Dictator for Life." This is a custom title field which can be customized for any member and shows in this group as | David V. | Oct 3, 2008 |
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Tonight's philosophy meetup: What is your central purpose in life? - I've updated tonight's philosophy Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://philosophy.meetup.com/156/calendar/8595454/ I would like to discuss an additional, re
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David V. | Sep 18, 2008 |
| Tonight?s philosophy topic: The foundation of political principles - Greetings fellow deep thinkers, Don't forget - we meet just outside the cafe area in the front of the store. Thursday's philosophy meetup: The foundation of political principles Please submit your | David V. | Jul 17, 2008 |
| Thursday's Philosophy Meetup Topic: the Foundation of Moral Principles - When : June 19, 2008 7:00 PM Where : Half-Price Books 5803 E. Northwest Hwy. Dallas, TX 75231 214.379.8000 Please RSVP Greetings fellow | David V. | Jun 17, 2008 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's topic: Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and the Doomsday Argument - Hey Azam It had been awhile since I attended a meeting; now I am back. David made an interesting point on Wed; technology is an extension of my mind (I believe this can be substituted for self). Technology is we realizi | Diem Golightly | May 15, 2008 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's topic: Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and the Doomsday Argument - Greetings.. As usual I missed this meeting also. I browsed through David's article and the subtitle "A New Conception of Self", caught my eyes and my imagination. What are we going to do with all those gigabytes of information about self? May be o | user 4714127 | May 15, 2008 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's topic: Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and the Doomsday Argument - Hey David great meeting What is the name of that site you frequent??? DIG.com I went there and I was relayed to some corporate disney site | Diem Golightly | May 14, 2008 |
| Tonight's topic: Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, and the Doomsday Argument - Greetings fellow deep thinkers, Don't forget - we meet just outside the cafe area in the front of the store. For tonight's discussion, I'd like to do something a little different and ask some questions about the fate of human | David V. | May 14, 2008 |
| Re: Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - This has been an interesting discussion so far. Regardless of how the age of consent is determined, either by age or some other means, that criterion, it seems, would have to be uniformly applied throughout the society. It would have to be a pu | Jim B. | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Re: Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - Jason wrote: > Also what exactly it means to "condemn" a group or individual based on their unfavorable social affiliations. Does this mean simply to shun their practices or discourage association with them? If, through th | David V. | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Re: Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - Eduardo wrote: > Surely these examples point to the possibility of a proper, society-wide rite of passage that might be used to 'graduate' a young person into their age of consent. I think that all variations of the draf | David V. | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Re: Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - Perhaps age is not the most accurate metric by which to estimate a person's capacity in many functions, as individuals begin life with varying talents and progress through them at different rates. However, I do think it is probably th | Jason Ross | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - Greetings: It has been a while since I went to a Thursday meeting (my work schedule is curren | Eduardo | Apr 23, 2008 |
| Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - - That would seem like a good idea, but if there's a test, the gov't would get involved and sneak political questions into the test to bias it against those who won't kiss the gov't's @$$. Gned the Gnome - philosopher etc. ----- Original Me | Gned the Gnome | Apr 22, 2008 |
| Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - As has been implied elsewhere in this thread, it seems to me that age isn't necessarily a very good metric for this purpose. It seems to me that we ought to be able to think of better ways of measuring someone's ability to consent intelligently. Some | Shaun Dawson | Apr 22, 2008 |
| Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - - Yes, an age of consent is a somewhat arbitrary convention, but is admittedly convenient. Suitable methods for overriding it in either direction as appropriate for specific individuals would allow fine tuning as needed. The 7th and 19th Amendments | Gned the Gnome | Apr 20, 2008 |
| Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - We didn't really touch on the question of how to determine the age of consent, although we all agreed that there is (or should be) some age of consent, and that people below such age deserve special protections and considerations. The problems of determin | Jim B. | Apr 19, 2008 |
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Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - - Interesting discussion/points. Some of these are addressed by one or more
of the 26 amendments at the bottom of
http://texas.freecountries.org/urt-con-amended-2007-10-01.html
Gned the Gnome - philosopher etc.
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Gned the Gnome | Apr 18, 2008 |
| Re: Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - This was undoubtedly a great discussion, yet another in a long line of which I am sad to have missed. I'm curious what the group had to say about the determination of the age at which a person should be considered compe | Jason Ross | Apr 18, 2008 |
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Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - - Great message, very libertarian, see http://common-law.net/nap.html for
more. I had a date tonite, otherwise I probably would've gone to the meeting.
I hope to catch one eventually.
Gned the Gnome - philosopher etc.
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Gned the Gnome | Apr 17, 2008 |
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Tonight?s philosophy topic: Freedom and Toleration - I've updated this meeting. For more details, see the full listing: http://philosophy.meetup.com/156/calendar/7573426/ When: Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: H
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David V. | Apr 17, 2008 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] Tonight's topic: Thermodynamics and the meaning of life - Preview not available | Mrs.Outland | Mar 20, 2008 |
| RE: [philosophy-156] Tonight's topic: Thermodynamics and the meaning of life - | user 3236230 | Mar 20, 2008 |
| Tonight's topic: Thermodynamics and the meaning of life - RSVP: The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Gr… Don't forget we meet outside the cafe area in the front! I was reading today about a | David V. | Mar 20, 2008 |
| Tonight's topic: history, civilization, and global culture - For tonight's topic, I would like to discuss the past, present, and future of civilization. In particular, what factors account for the differences between the world's civilizations, and how should they be judged? Some questio | David V. | Aug 16, 2007 |
| New Event: Movie Night!! - Announcing a new event for The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group! What: Movie Night!! When: Sunday, July 8, 7:00 PM Where: David's House Event Description: Hello Philosophers! Sunday, the | SkyeB. | Jun 29, 2007 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group suggested donation - I think science is a great topic. I think we can focus the topic on three issues: What is the scientific process, and how does it differ from other epistemological methods? Is and/or should science be a prescriptive field, or | David V. | Apr 29, 2007 |
| Re: [philosophy-156] The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group suggested donation - David, At the last meeting of the Examined Life we discussed me helping out with the next meeting. I came up with a couple of possible topics. 1) Is Science the ultimate 'truth"? Are there | Jim | Apr 28, 2007 |
| The DFW Examined Life Philosophy Group suggested donation - Dear Philosophers, As you may be aware, Meetup.com charges for its services. A number of your proactively offered to pitch in (thanks!), so I've decided to specify a suggested donation amount. The group costs $12/month (I erroneously said $19 | David V. | Apr 19, 2007 |
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