Orange County Philosophy Discussion Group

 
 
 

“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds gossip about other people.”
Henry Thomas Buckle

Come join like-minded friends in informal, spontaneous conceptual discussions. Nothing to read or prepare - bring your sense of humor and sense of philosophical inquiry to share your thoughts and be stimulated by others' ideas and the feeling of camaraderie.

The Hangout Restaurant & Beach Bar
We're patio dining al fresco.
Although there are overhead heaters, please layer as it cools quickly after the sun sets.
Happy Hour till 6pm

https://www.thehangoutrestaurant.com/happy-hour
https://www.thehangoutrestaurant.com/foodmenu
Cover is $2.

 
 
 

The fourth Thursday of the month is our time to get together for camaraderie, a fun meal, and of course a discussion, regarding something about Philosophy.

Venue, topic, and readings TBA.

 
 
 

“Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds gossip about other people.”
Henry Thomas Buckle

Come join like-minded friends in informal, spontaneous conceptual discussions. Nothing to read or prepare - bring your sense of humor and sense of philosophical inquiry to share your thoughts and be stimulated by others' ideas and the feeling of camaraderie.

We're patio dining al fresco, so layer in case it cools down.
Restaurant TBD.
MeetUp insists on a location, so although this is listed as a zoom event - it is an in-person event with the location yet to be determined.
Cover is $2.

 
 
 

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was intended to comprise three volumes covering the period from the earliest traces of stone age cave paintings to the atomic physics of the 20th century – a project that, as he conveyed in a letter to Imre Lakatos, almost drove him nuts: “Damn the ,Naturphilosophie.”

The book’s manuscript was long believed to have been lost. Recently, however, a typescript constituting the first volume of the project was unexpectedly discovered at the University of Konstanz. In this volume Feyerabend explores the significance of myths for the early period of natural philosophy, as well as the transition from Homer’s “aggregate universe” to Parmenides’ uniform ontology. He focuses on the rise of rationalism in Greek antiquity, which he considers a disastrous development, and the associated separation of man from nature. Thus Feyerabend explores the prehistory of science in his familiar polemical and extraordinarily learned manner.

The volume contains numerous pictures and drawings by Feyerabend himself. It also contains hitherto unpublished biographical material that will help to round up our overall image of one of the most influential radical philosophers of the twentieth century.

Note: this reading is higher on the intellectual and abstraction scales and may be challenging for some readers. PDF forthcoming.

Massimo Pigliucci says the bad boy of philosophy of science has done it again, posthumously.

We'll begin with dinner and socializing before we focus on the ideas of this reading.