Science!
In preparing for our upcoming episode about the Vienna Circle, we ve been thinking about the members focus on science quite a few of them were scientists and mathematicians, and this perspective inspired their ideas. So for the month of May, we thought we d provide some past episodes about the Philosophy of Science as a helpful backgrounder for exploring the Vienna Circle.
Back in 2006, John and Ken explored fundamental questions in the philosophy of science with recent-return guest Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. A couple of years later they delved deeper into more specific questions about distinguishing science from pseudo- or non-science with with Stuart Vyse from Connecticut College, author of
Philosophy and art at the Belmont Library
April 28, 2021BELMONT The library has arranged a NH Humanities book discussion in place of our regular Thursday book group. SNHU professor Dr. Kiki Berk will be leading a discussion on Massimo Pigliucci s How to be a Stoic: Using ancient philosophy to live a modern life. Get in touch with the library for the link to the meeting on May 13 at 1 p.m.
We here at the Belmont Library are trying something a little different for storytime right now. There s a month long themed display- coming up, National Physical Fitness Month take one or two books and a craft/STEM kit. Wednesday mornings we ll post a short video (roughly five minutes) on the library s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience bostonreview.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bostonreview.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NORVEL. By Kenneth Conklin. Self published. 359 pages. $26.99.
Norvel Lee, a big man with a big heart, came out of the hills of northern Botetourt County to win a boxing match at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, and a landmark desegregation case before the State Supreme Court.
Kenneth Conklin, a retired technology writer, also from Botetourt, tells Leeâs story in a fictional version of many events in the life of a man who proudly carried his African American heritage from a farm on Mill Creek near Gala to Howard University, the Army Air Corps, international boxing circles and civic leadership in the Washington area.
Reviewed by Michael L. Ramsey
Ramsey is president emeritus of the Roanoke Public Library Foundation.
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LIE: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet The Spy.
By Leslie Brody. Seal Press. 335 pages. $30.
If you were a teenage girl in the 1960s (and the following decades), it is likely that you read âHarriet the Spy,â a novel about a cheeky girl who embodied the spirit of female liberation that had been planted by women such as Betty Freidan and other societal trailblazers.
It was a coming-out novel for a generation of girls who would embrace womenâs liberation.