mong the wonderful attributes of living in the New York City area is the large number of interesting events to experience, places to visit and people to encounter. Even better, some of them are Free! The chapter will gladly post any regular meeting that is open to alumni attendance. Do you know of a weekly/monthly event that other Johnnies would enjoy attending? Do you have a book club you want to start? A series of movie nights you want to plan? A tour of historic bars you want to organize? If so, please send a short description to and provide an email where interested parties can contact you. The chapter will send out one email notice to the chapter making them aware of the new activity and post it here on the website. Let us know what interests you!

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Tony Hardy's Phenomenology Group
Phenomenology is a modern philosophical movement that tries to understand consciousness. Please join , A'51, for an ongoing discussion of such interesting questions as whether giving consciousness and mind their due inevitably entails solipsism. Our discussions will start with Tony's new book, Perspectives and the Construction of Consciousness and then move on to other authors. (Chapter One is online and you can read what he has to say about his new book at his website ).

According to Tony,

The belief that what is in our mind results from a copying of a reality that is outside has guided our thinking for many centuries. It is a belief, however, that has engendered multiple problems. Among these is the rigid opposition it creates between an "objective" and a "subjective," and another is the inability of thinkers through the ages to explain how this copying goes about. If we are to avoid these problems and arrive at a more satisfactory understanding of things, therefore, the "realism" that embodies this approach needs to be replaced. And the direction this replacement should take has been indicated in the "critical" philosophy that Kant gave birth to with his Copernican revolution.

In this book, I present this critical philosophy in the form of a "paradigm," an entire system that provides the needed alternative to realism ...

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