The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

In 1890 T. C. Chamberlin published a profoundly important short essay "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses" in the journal Science. We will explore two major considerations raised by the essay. First, we will examine the moral reform that Chamberlin urges for investigations, learning, and citizenship. Secondly, we will consider its implications for comprehensivism, the practice of "wanting to understand all and put everything together" as Bucky Fuller put it in "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth".

You can read Chamberlin's essay in a six page PDF at http://webhome.auburn.edu/~tds0009/Articles/Chamberlain%201965.pdf or on JSTOR (requires a free account) at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1716334

To help participants think through the two issues we will explore, I wrote an essay "The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses" which you can read at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2020/12/the-value-of-multiple-working-hypotheses/

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA

The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley: Sign up at https://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/274498518/

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