Since the December 29th update, Comprehensivist Wednesdays has organized six events. This update documents four forthcoming events and collects resources including event descriptions, video, and essays from the six most recent past events.
Four 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 27 January 2021 9PM (New York time): Destruction & Creation: A Method of Thinking by John Boyd (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Wed 3 February 2021 9PM (New York time): Ignorance & Questions (Event Page at Thinking Society). Exploring Stuart Firestein work on science and ignorance.
- Sun 7 February 2021 9PM (New York time): Dante’s “La Vita Nuova”: Reading Dante in 2021 (Event Page at Thinking Society). Check out the companion page Reading Dante in 2021.
- Wed 10 February 2021 9PM (New York time): Thoughts on CHANGE from 103 Great Ideas (Event Page at Thinking Society).
The Six Most Recent Past Events including video links and essays
- 30 December 2020: What Will You Be Exploring in 2021? (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 6 January 2021: Come Celebrate 700 Years of Dante (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 10 January 2021: “The Power of Polymathy” with Angela Cotellessa (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas).
- 13 January 2021: “The Inductive Attitude: The Moral Basis of Science” with CJ Fearnley (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- Exploring George Pólya’s epistemic virtue for learning from experience and its implications for comprehensivism.
- Essay on “The Inductive Attitude: The Moral Basis of Science”
- Video (1h 24m): George Pólya on The Inductive Attitude
- 20 January: Neuroscience: A Child’s Mind (Event Page at 52 Living Ideas) (Event Page at Thinking Society).
- 24 January 2021: Paradoxes of Polymathy with Dr. 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. Here are three playlists of past events:
- Introduction to Comprehensivism (YouTube Playlist)
- 2020 Events from the “Comprehensivist Wednesdays” series (YouTube Playlist)
- 2021 Events from the Comprehensivist Wednesdays series (YouTube Playlist)
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
