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Reading Lonergan's Insight: A Study of Human Understanding: Time: 10:30 am - 12 pm, alternate Saturdays

ON BREAK UNTIL EARLY SEPTEMBER

This seminar meets live at the Lonergan Institute and online via the Internet, which allows Dr. David Fleischacker to conduct the seminar remotely from Ft. Wayne. Dr. Ron Vardiman and Br. Dunstan Robidoux assist at the Institute in Washington, DC. The meetings begin on alternate Saturdays at 10:30 am and end at noon.

Insight: A Study of Human Understanding by Bernard Lonergan, S.J.

Podcasts and Outlines

May 31, 2008 feed Podcast. (we just continued the outline from May 24) This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Dickinson, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo and Dr. David Nordquest online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONENT: Emergent Probability.

May 24, 2008 feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Dickinson, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo and Dr. David Nordquest online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONENT: Emergent Probability. Chapter 4, section 2.5, properties 3 through 12.

May 10, 2008  feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Dickinson, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo and Dr. David Nordquest online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONENT: Emergent Probability. Chapter 4, section 2.5, properties 1 and 2.

April 26, 2008 feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Sean O'Brien, Kieran Dickinson, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo and Dr. David Nordquest online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONENT: Emergent Probability. Insight, Chapter 4, section 2.1 - 2.4

March 1, 2008 feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Paul Sweeney, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne. CONTENT: The complementarity of classical and heuristic structures.  Insight, chapter 4, section 1.

February 2, 2008: feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Kieran Dickinson, Paul Sweeney, Br. Dunstan Robidoux and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo and Dr. David Nordquest online. It was led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONTENT: The Existence of Statistical Residues, Insight, chapter 3, sections 6.5.

January 19, 2008: feed Podcast. Outline 6.2 . Outline 6.3. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Kieran Dickinson, and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo online, led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONTENT: The Meaning of Abstraction, The Abstractness of Classical Laws, Insight, chapter 3, sections 6.2 and 6.3.

December 8, 2007:  feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Dunstan Robidoux, and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo online, led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONTENT: Canon of Statistical Residues, Insight, chapter 3, sections 6.1 and 6.2.

November 17, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline. This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Paul Sweeney, Kieran Dickinson, Dunstan Robidoux, and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo online, led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne.  CONTENT: Canon of Parsimony and Canon of Complete Explanation, Insight, chapter 3, sections 4 and 5.

November 3, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Paul Sweeney, Dunstan Robidoux, Kieran Dickinson, and John Kohl in Washington and Tony Russo online, led by David Fleischacker from Fort Wayne. CONTENT: Canon of Operations and Canon of Relevance, Insight, chapter 3, sections 2 and 3.

September 29, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Terry Carlson, Paul Sweeney and John Kohl in Washington and by David Fleischacker, Tony Russo and Leo Serroul online. Content: Summary of Chapter 2 and introduction to chapter 3: Canon of Selection, Insight, chapter 3, sections 3 and 4.


September 15, 2007
Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Br. Dunstan, Terence Carlson, Paul Sweeney and John Kohl in Washington and by David Fleischacker and Tony Russo online. Content: Inverse Insight and Statistical Method, The Nature of Probability, Analogy of Classical and Statistical Heuristic Structures. Insight, chapter 2, sections 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4.

June 30, 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Dr. Ron Vardiman, Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney and John Kohl in Washington and by David Fleischacker, Tony Russo, and Leo Serroul online. Content: Systematic and Non-Systematic Process, Contrast of Classical and Statistical Heuristic Structures. Insight, chapter 2, section 4.1.

June 2, 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, John Kohl and Terence Carlson in Washington and by David Fleischacker, Tony Russo, Andy Donlan and Leo Serroul online. Content: Concrete Inferences from Classical Laws.  Systematic and Non-Systematic Process.  Insight, chapter 2, section 3.

May 12 , 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, Kieran Dickinson, John Kohl, Terence Carlson and Dr. Ron Vardiman. The seminar was led online by Dr. David Feischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Content: Invariance in Classical Laws.  Insight, chapter 2, section 2.5 and 2.6.

April 28, 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline This session was attended by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, John Kohl, Terence Carlson and Dr. Ron Vardiman. The seminar was led online by Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Anthony Russo in NYC joined online. Content:  Differential Equations in Classical Heuristic Structures.  Insight, chapter 2, section 2.4.

April 14, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline This session was attended in Washington by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, John Kohl, Kieran Dickinson and Rick Roque. The seminar was led online by Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Anthony Russo and Andy Donlan joined online. Content:  Comparison of Mathematical and Scientific Insights, Introduction to Classical Heuristic Structures, Understanding the Nature of...., Classifications based on sensible similarity vs. explanatory similarity. Insight, chapter 2, sections 1 - 2.3.

March 31, 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline The sixth session was attended in Washington by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, John Kohl, Terence Carlson, and Sue and Charles Ferris. The seminar was led online by Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Anthony Russo in New York and Rick Carter in Texas participated online. Content:  Empirical Residue. Insight, chapter 1, section 5.

March 17, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline. The fifth session was attended in person by Br. Dunstan, Ron Vardiman, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, John Kohl, and Terence Carlson; Remotely, the seminar was led by Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Anthony Russo in New York and Rick Carter in Texas participated online.Content:  Inverse Insight.  Insight, chapter 1, section 4.

March 3, 2007: feed
Podcast. Outline. The fourth session was attended in person by Br. Dunstan, Ron Vardiman, Paul Sweeney, Kieran Dickinson, David Alexander, John Kohl, and two Jesuit guests, Chris Krall and Fr. Shannon; Remotely, the seminar was attended by Anthony Russo in New York; Rick Carter in Houston; Andrew Donlan in DC; and Roland Krismer in Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana led the seminar.

February 17, 2007:
feed Podcast. Outline. This third session was attended by Br. Dunstan, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, Terence Carlson and John Kohl in Washington; Anthony Russo in New York City and was led by Dr. David Fleischacker in Indiana.

February 3, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline.This was the second session attended by Br. Dunstan Robidoux, Dr. Ron Vardiman, Paul Sweeney, David Alexander, Kieran Dickinson, Terence Carlson, and John Kohl in Washington; Richard Carter in Texas; Rick Roque in California and led by Dr. David Fleischacker.

January 20, 2007: feed Podcast. Outline.This was the first session of a new Insight seminar led remotely by Dr. David Fleischacker in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

Commentary and Examples

Part I: Insight as Activity 

Chapter 1: Elements 

Chapter 2: Heuristic Structures of Empirical Method 

Chapter 3: The Canons of Empirical Method 

Chapter 4: The Complementarity of Classical and Statistical Investigation 

Chapter 5: Space and Time 

Chapter 6: Common Sense and Its Subject 

Chapter 7: Common Sense as Object 

Chapter 8: Things 

Chapter 9: The Notion of Judgment 

Chapter 10: Reflective Understanding 

Part II: Insight as Knowledge 

Chapter 11: Self-Affirmation of the Knower 

Chapter 12: The Notion of Being 

Chapter 13: The Notion of Objectivity 

Chapter 14: The Method of Metaphysics 

Chapter 15: Elements of Metaphysics 

Chapter 16: Metaphysics as Science 

Chapter 17: Metaphysics as Dialectic 

Chapter 18: The Possibility of Ethics 

Chapter 19: General Transcendent Knowledge 

Chapter 20: Special Transcendent Knowledge 

Epilogue 

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