Next three meetings

[Chris Boyd]

The following are our next three books for BIRG II.  Note change of June meeting to the third Saturday of the month. May 12 The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World  by David Deutsch  The quest to improve explanations is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavor. This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach, according to Deutsch: we are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve. Hi BIRG,  June 16 (Third Saturday this month) Truth: A Guide  by Simon Blackburn Admirably sketching the battle lines currently staked out over the idea of objective truth, a Cambridge professor of philosophy makes his subject lively and accessible even as he parts some of its deepest waters, with absolutists-traditionalists-realists on the one side and relativists-postmodernists-idealists on the other. . July 14 Do Not Go Gentle, Book One, Discovery [book one of three], by Mark Millstorm (Muhlestein). Mark is a member of our group. This is his new book that has  came out late 2011 on Kindle. You can download a free trial copy of Amazon Kindle useable on your desktop or laptop You just discovered that in ten years the Earth is going to be ejected from the solar system by a passing black hole. What do you do? Many questions, existential, technological, and human, are put into crisp focus in this first volume of an exploration of how humanity might respond to an improbable, but scientifically possible, event: the passage of a massive object through our solar neighborhood. . Hope to see you May 12, Chris Boyd