Alva Noe's The Entanglement

It's official: on July 5 we'll begin discussing Alva Noe's *The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are*. To join the discussion please read the Preface and Chapters 1 and 2 before the meeting. This is the perfect time to join if you are new to the group since we're starting a new book -- and it's a very exciting one. We meet on the first Sunday of every month, from 3-5 pm, at Cafe Express Town & Country. We always welcome new participants. Our preferred approach is close reading -- a paragraph-by-paragraph attempt to work through the text together. We don't cover a lot of space each month, but we've found this suits us just fine. We are amateurs at this, so all that's required to participate is a genuine interest. We're also a Great Books group, and although we don't follow their method exactly, all the time, (http://www.houstongreatbooks.net/resources.html), we try to stick to clarifying the text itself. Any questions or insights about the text are welcome; any outside material that takes the place of the text for the most part isn't. Since we all have some exposure to philosophy, and have our own ideas about philosophy, we ask that any such ideas that you want to introduce be directly relevant, and your own, in the sense that you aren't appealing to authority (Kant's, for example, or a religious text). Although we often bring in examples, and these are helpful, we try to limit examples to those that are directly relevant to the text. In other words, we try to follow the text, and any conclusions we might try to introduce should be conclusions drawn from the text and what it says. It should be a conversation, starting with genuine questions about what the text says , rather than a lecture by anyone about what he or she thinks, believes, or has concluded. We're interested in what the author thought and said. Please join us for a discussion! If you have any questions, please contact Bill.