Main Links - [BLOG] [MANIFESTO] [WHO?] [PIRSIG] [JoiningDots&WeavingThreads]
Psybertron's been blogging since 2001. Explore archives and additional links in the side-bar.
3
July 8, 2005 at 4:23pm
by Ian The first ever conference on Bob Pirsig‘s Metaphysics of Quality was held yesterday 7th July 2005 at Liverpool University Philosophy Department, organised by Dr Anthony McWatt.
A fuller report will follow here, and on the MoQ.org website in due course.
Excellent event with some really high quality presentations, and face-to-face meetings of minds.
Well done to Ant for pulling it off, all the headaches were worth it.
When taking stock I noticed that I started this Blog 2 days after September 11th 2001.
The lines of thought here had been keeping me awake at nights long before 9/11 woke the world. Nothing in this Blog has anything directly to do with those events, but I'm not alone in being awoken to the power of the Blog by their information aftermath. Perhaps in some small way the idea that western rational arrogance, which dogs progress in so many aspects of life, can be influenced by my puny efforts to bring alternative philosophies into the mainstream. Many greater people than I have tried before and failed over three millennia, so I'm not holding my breath. If 9/11 brings anything new to this ancient debate, apart from its awful significance, it is the fact that the antidote to classical logic is sure as hell not a flight from reason.
That way lies only evil.
The words "creative destruction" can never again be used lightly.
The Lights Went Out On Broadway.
There's something solid forming in the air,
Fly On A Windshield.
Copyright Peter Gabriel 1974
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
© 2010 Psybertron Asks.
Moonlight theme by Blaze New Media
Powered by WordPress
3 Comments
#1. alice 07.09.2005
Interesting day to have held the conference.
I read Sam Norton’s essay on Moq.org. He is a good writer who is quite accessable. It was a nice overview. I even recognized some of the names!!
#2. Brent Vizeau 07.11.2005
Bloody right, as they say, Ian! I guess i had no trouble finding your blog. Nice to know where to go to hear the ramblings of a wise’ol scientist.
#3. Ian 07.12.2005
Nice to get a couple of comments – I’m busy at a conference in Shanghai at the moment, so haven’t managed much posting that last couple of days.
Main problem in China is the blocking of BBC material … Grrrr.
I have quite a few good photos of the MoQ conference, Brent.
Should be back to blogging by tomorrow.
Alice, the Rev Sam is one of those theists I can have a reasonable conversation with, despite the fact he cannot be shifted from a “causal” god.
Leave a Comment