AUGUST SOCIAL DINNER
Join us Wednesday, September 16th at 5:30 pm for this month’s LSF Social
Dinner at Enger Park. Bring your own food and beverage. If the weather’s bad, we’ll move to Crooked Pint, 1402 West Arrowhead Road
LSF Monthly Social
LSF Happy Hour
JOIN US FOR Happy Hour 4:00-6:00 pm Thursday,
Sep. 3 at Mexico Lindo, Fitger’s Brewery Complex
Meet your fellow Freethinkers at our old haunt: Mexico Lindo within the Fitger’s complex. We’ll be there from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm to share stories, questions, and TexMex food choices or just some half-priced drinks. Park in the public garage and bring your ticket. The server will validate your parking and we will validate (some of) your unusual ideas. Why not bring a friend?
The Big One: Pandemics
Sunday Nov. 1. at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link
(This speaker is rescheduled from March)
Dr. Osterholm is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Heath, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Council of Foreign Relations. In June 2005 Dr. Osterholm was appointed by Michael Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
to the newly established National Science Advisory Board on Biosecurity. In July 2008, he was named to the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, Aos Academy of Excellence in Health Research. In October 2008, he was appointed to the World Economic Forum Working Group on Pandemics.
Epistemology
Sunday October 4, at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called the theory of knowledge, it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists study the concepts of belief, truth, and justification to understand the nature of knowledge. To discover how knowledge arises, they investigate sources of justification, such as perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony. — Wikipedia
(the presentation will be given by a group of LSF members, not Wikipedia)
Why Resist Generative AI?
Sunday September 6, at 10:00 at One Roof’s Central Hillside Community Center at 12 East 4th Street in Duluth (coffee / chat at 9:30). Zoom link
Professor at University of Minnesota Duluth, Elizabethada A. Wright has two co-edited books, one book in press on public memory, and has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, Rhetoric Review, College English Association Critic, Studies in the Literary Imagination, as well as in a number of other journals and books.
Why Resist Generative AI?
While many educators are aware of how AI is hindering student learning and thinking, many may not have considered AI’s far-reaching ethical issues. This presentation will outline the argument made by scholars regarding the ethics and why economics tell us AI is not inevitable.