Since the November 23th update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized eight events. This update documents three forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the seven most recent past events.
Three Forthcoming Events
In order to RSVP to attend these events, you must join either the 52 Living Ideas meetup or the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society meetup. Joining either group will require joining Meetup.com which is a free on-line service with strong privacy controls. Once you are a member, you can RSVP to join the event from the link to its Event Page.
- Wed 30 December 2020 9PM (New York time): What Will You Be Exploring in 2021? (Event Page at Thinking Society). Come share your plans with others. Each attendee will get 5 minutes to talk about any field they are exploring or are planning to explore.
- Wed 6 January 2021 9PM (New York time): Event on the Legacy of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). 2021 is the 7th centenary celebration for the legacy that Dante bequeathed us on his death. Event details are not yet available, but you can check out the companion page Reading Dante in 2021.
- Wed 13 January 2021 9PM (New York time): The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism. Exploring George Pólya’s ideas about plausible reasoning and induction as a moral basis for science and then wondering if the ideas can be extended for comprehensivism.
The Eight Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 25 November 2020: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Exploring David Epstein’s bestseller “Range” about what amounts to the comprehensivist approach.
- Video (2h 30m): Range by David Epstein
- 29 November 2020: “The Ethos of a Modern Day Polymath” with Dr Angela Cotellessa (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- 2 December 2020: “Lessons from Interviews with Polymaths” with Dustin Miller (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 9 December 2020: Understanding Us: Core Concepts in Neuroscience (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 13 December 2020: “Polymaths in Organization” with Chris Foltz and Dr. Angela Cotellessa (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- 16 December 2020: The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Exploring T. C. Chamberlin’s epistemic virtue for the learning of the investigator, the student, the citizen, and the comprehensivist. The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses
- Essay on The Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses
- Video (1h 29m): Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses
- 23 December: How to be a Super Ager (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 27 December 2020: Future of Work with Angela Cotellessa (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
About Comprehensivist Wednesdays
Comprehensivist Wednesdays is an on-going series of weekly events designed to foster the art of comprehensivity, the state or quality of considering with ever increasing depth and breadth more and more of Humanity’s great traditions of inquiry, more and more of Humanity’s communicated experiences that comprise Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Universe, and more and more of the Ethnosphere (Wade Davis’ cultural analogue of the biosphere). Buckminster Fuller described the approach as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
The series is being organized by emcee Shrikant Rangnekar of 52 Living Ideas in collaboration with CJ Fearnley of Collaborating for Comprehensivism and the Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society. There is a YouTube playlist with all videos from the “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” series (click here).
Collaborating for Comprehensivism is an emerging initiative to energize humanity’s collective intelligence through group conversations that facilitate incrementally the formation of ever broader and deeper and more integrated understandings of our worlds and its peoples.
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Other Comprehensivist Wednesday's Series News Releases
- “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” begins 15 July 2020 @9-11PM EDT
- August 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- September 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- October 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- November 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- December 2020 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- January 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- March 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- April 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
- June 2021 Update on Comprehensivist Wednesdays
