Click Here to Read: AI’s first philosopher: Alan Turing was a pioneer of machine learning, whose work continues to shape the crucial question: can machines think? by Sebastian Sunday Grève on the Aeon website,
Alan Turing. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Einstein and Freud’s ‘Why War?’ Revisited
World Premiere of SABINA Comes to Portland Stage
Erikson Institute of Austen Riggs Center Grand Rounds: Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field. Friday April 29 1:00 pm EDT
Date: Friday, April 29, 2022
Time: 12:50-1:50 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Registration and details: https://education.
Grand Rounds are designed for mental health professionals, offered free of charge, and provide 1.0 continuing education credit. View all upcoming virtual events and recorded courses at education.austenriggs.org/
On Becoming Freud: Signorelli’s Last Judgment, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, and Michelangelo’s Moses
Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability
Click Here to Read: Identity narrative, group and individual narratives and their role in social stability: A multidisciplinary approach by Andrei Novac,, Christine Zahn and Barton J. Blinder. Group Analysis. June 2021. doi:10.1177/05333164211012529
Narcissuss (1594-96) by Caravaggio. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Metaphysics at the Helix Center
ROUNDTABLE ON 4/30 AT 2:30PM EST ZOOM LINK TBA
Metaphysics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 30 April 2022
Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges to this position.
The epistemic turn laid down by the quantum theory’s Copenhagen interpretation places our knowledge about Nature, in the sense of what we can know about it, above what it is “in itself.” Nearly contemporaneously, the famous “linguistic turn” heralded by the works of Wittgenstein and the ordinary language philosophers, urged “remaining quiet” about Nature beyond the acknowledged limits of what can be said about it. And more recently, on the heels of what has been referred to as the cognitive turn in psychology, philosophers like Richard Rorty focus on the modes of Continue reading Metaphysics at the Helix Center