Version 2 of the One-sheet in PDF. The original used in the meeting is here.

On Friday, July 20th of 2018 from 2-3:30pm US ET, SOPHIA will hold an online symposium on “Ways of Knowing in Nature: The Effects of Place on Knowledge & Intuition.” We will be using this one-sheet document for the conversation (Updated! and here’s the original).

Our facilitators for this meeting will be Dr. Andrea Christelle and Dr. Robin Weeks of Sedona Philosophy in Sedona, AZ.

We will hold the meeting via Zoom Video Conferencing. Here are the instructions on how to join the conversation:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/163766546

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): 16468769923,163766546# or 16699006833,163766546#

Or Telephone:
Dial:
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Meeting ID: 163 766 546
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Date:	July 20, 2018
Time:	02:00 - 3:30 p.m. US ET
Event:	Ways of Knowing in Nature, a SOPHIA Online Symposium
Topic:	Ways of Knowing in Nature
Sponsor:	Sedona Philosophy
Venue:	Zoom Video Conferencing Platform
Public:	Public

On Thursday, March 22nd at 8pm U.S. Eastern Time, SOPHIA is holding our next online symposium, on “Plato’s Cave Today.” Join us!

Anthony Cashio will be our facilitator for this event. This meeting will be about the content of our very first episode of Philosophy Bakes Bread, but there is no homework to prepare in advance of this meeting. If you want to listen to the episode, you’re encouraged to do it, but we will proceed with the assumption that some or many have not had a chance to hear it.

SOPHIA aims to hold genuinely conversational meetings. We have a facilitator or two each time, but the idea is not to hear a presentation and then ask questions, but instead to have a very brief introduction to a topic, give everyone sufficient time to read our one-sheet document for this event, and then we open the floor to discussion about it.

Thursday’s meeting will be about difficulties obtaining and knowing the truth, about the ways in which media frame our understanding of facts, and about the challenges that emerge as a result for trusting politicians, journalists, scientists, and others. At the same time, trust is important and yet ideals of objectivity may well be unattainable. We will have fun talking about these topics, going where our conversation takes us.

To prepare for an online symposium, please be sure to:

a) situate yourself in a quiet space (or else the moderator will mute your microphone)

b) have a working Web cam, microphone, and headphones (otherwise, your mic may pick up your speakers)

c) be connected to a great internet connection

d) pause or turn off file-syncing software, like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.

e) mute phones

f) Know that we will be recording this event and posting it on YouTube and on our Web site. Participation is taken to be permission to be recorded.

We’ll be connecting via:

Zoom Video conferencing using this link:

https://uky.zoom.us/j/249753269

Date:	March 22, 2018
Time:	08:00-9:30 p.m.
Event:	Plato's Cave Today: Online Symposium
Sponsor:	The Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA) 859.257.1849
Venue:	Zoom Video Conferencing Platform
Public:	Public

If you haven't already done so, consider joining the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA)!

Posted on Friday, March 16, 2018

‘It’s Over Debbie’ – Euthanasia

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

John Lachs facilitating a SOPHIA symposium in Oxford, MS.

John Lachs of Vanderbilt University

This piece was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1988 and inspired a firestorm of responses. Dr. John Lachs proposed this as a one-sheet document for a conversation that he and Executive Director Weber organized in Oxford, MS, in 2008 on “Ethics at the End of Life.” This one-sheet document was hugely successful for spurring inspired yet civil conversation about values at the end of life, as well as whether there should be freedom in end-of-life decision-making, what sort, and what kinds of policies make sense for end-of-life circumstances. The JAMA withheld the name of the author this piece by request.

Printable PDF.

The document is available on the JAMA Web site as an image file. For a printable, searchable (OCR’d) version, click here, on the Adobe PDF logo on right, or on the image here below:

Posted on Friday, March 16, 2018

Disagreement

One-Sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Printable version

Courtesy of the South Puget Sound SOPHIA Chapter

By Dr. Sergia Hay, Dr. Michael Rings, and Matthew Salzano

First used on March 5, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran University

Topic:

Disagreement: Strategies for Talking Across Divides

Hay

Questions for conversation:

1) How can we have productive discussions when there is disagreement?

Rings

2) What does it mean to have a “productive” discussion when there is disagreement?

3) Can tools from philosophy help in these discussions?

4) What are the roles of reason and emotion in these discussions?

Salzano

5) Are there strategies to use (or avoid) in these discussions?

6) Are there times when it is advisable not to engage in these discussions?

Additional Resources:

David Bohm, On Dialogue (New York: Routledge Press 2004), http://amzn.to/2FCdb75.

Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (New York: Norton Publishing, 2014), http://amzn.to/2DeUS2C.

John Dewey, How We Think (New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1910/2002), http://amzn.to/2Fplxjn.

Jennifer Lackey, The Epistemology of Disagreement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), http://amzn.to/2GarlKy.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (New York: Dover Thrift Editions, 1859/2002), http://amzn.to/2ty2PQY.

“Disagreement,” Philosophy Talk [Radio], Sunday, December 5, 2010, https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/disagreement.

Bryan Frances, “Disagreement,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement/.

Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Introducing Two New Members

In pursuit of SOPHIA’s mission, of building communities of philosophical conversation locally, nationally, internationally, and online, we are continuing our process of creating introduction videos. Two new members joined SOPHIA in the last month or so, and each was kind enough to be willing to create an introduction video. These two fellows are Jim Lyttle and Casey Dorman and the following is a short introduction video of each one. Get to know our new members and welcome them to the group!

Hello, Jim Lyttle!

Jim is on Twitter here, @JimLyttle.

And hello Casey Dorman!

Casey is also on Twitter, here, @ReviewLost.

Welcome, both of you, to SOPHIA! A number of members, officers, and trustees have yet to make introduction videos. The holiday season can be a great time to get that done. Reach out to Executive Director Eric Weber to plan when we’ll make yours!