Breeze and Bicycles: Stop Sprawl!
Peter Ahumada
Thu Jan 17, 02-04:00pm, 1-242
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Define it. Charge for it. The way to stop sprawl is easy. Just like the way to stop the many "prisoner's dilemma" choices strangling urban transportation. Improving urban transportation is an economic problem, not an engineering one. Come learn the principles of market environmentalism and apply them to our cities.
Contact: Peter Ahumada, 864-2007, ahumada@mit.edu
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Deep Thought Over High Tea
Peter Ahumada
Thu Jan 24, 03:30-05:30pm, 2-349
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Philosophy has three big questions. Their answers are: 1) I exist. 2) You might exist. 3) Reality might not exist ...but it is a pretty cool idea! How hard is that? If you ever thought philosophers prefer an irrational muddle to a good answer, come chat about existential matters over fine tea. Topics include the philosophy of Gian-Carlo Rota.
Contact: Peter Ahumada, 864-2007, ahumada@mit.edu
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Floating Contracts
Peter Ahumada
Mon Jan 14, Wed Jan 16, 02-04:00pm, 2-136
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
What do cheap drugs for all who need them and commercial free radio have in common? What are floating contracts, anyway, and how might they save the world? How can we make altruistic aspirations into self-interested deeds? Is the internet good for something, after all? If you want to learn the theory of floating contracts, if you want to aid the sick poor people of the world, of if you just want to get rid of "commercials" on NPR, please join us.
Contact: Peter Ahumada, 864-2007, ahumada@mit.edu
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Philosophy of Perceptions
Peter Ahumada
Tue, Fri, Jan 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29, 1, 04-05:00pm, 2-136
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Three of the most important philosophers of perception are Rene Descartes, Bishop Berkeley, and MIT's beloved Gian-Carlo Rota. In a brief but serious class, we will explore Rota's philosophy of founding and synthesize it with Cartesian skepticism and Berkeley's world of perceptions. The scientific world will emerge as a mere consistency of one's perceptions.
Contact: Peter Ahumada, 864-2007, ahumada@mit.edu
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