Please join us in Auerbach Hall 321 or online this Wednesday, April 16, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club as Clark Sexton presents, "How to Resist Fascism in your Own Country."
Here is Clark’s outline:
- Preface: It Can't Happen Here
- Pre-Survey - Are You Concerned?
- Reasons for Concern
- Historical Cases Worth Noting
- Recent/Current Cases Worth Noting
- Comparison and Contrast Between Current State of Affairs in the United States and these Cases
- Signs of the Rise of Fascism
- Dealing With:
- Those in Denial
- Fear of Reprisals
- Defeatism (aka There's Nothing I Can Do
- Actual Steps You Can Take (aka The Resistance Movement)
Clark Sexton of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, earned doctorates both in Computer Science from Kansas State University and in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. His research in Computer Science was in Artificial Intelligence, and, more specifically, Natural Language Processing. For this research, he implemented an NLP system that could parse a wide range of syntactic structures of English, perform type-checking to determine whether a sentence is meaningful, and disambiguate certain ambiguous expressions.
Clark continued his exploration of the relations of meanings in his dissertation in Philosophy, in which he presented a brief history of the analytic/synthetic distinction, replied to Quine's objections, and provided and presented arguments for his own account of the distinction.
The University of Hartford Philosophy Club has an informal, jovial atmosphere. It is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
Come and go as you wish. Bring friends. Suggest topics and activities. Take over the club! It belongs to you! Just show up! Contact Brian Skelly at bskelly@hartford.edu or 413.273.2273.