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A Course on Insight
Prof. Patrick Byrne of the Philosophy Department at Boston College will be offering a year-long course on Lonergan's magnum opus, Insight. The course is entitled "Insight and Beyond." It is intended to make both the fundamental and the more difficult parts of Insight accessible to a wide audience. In the Spring 2010 semester, the course will also explore the developments in Lonergan's post-Insight works. The course lectures, discussions and visual aids will be made available online for anyone interested in Lonergan's thought.
The class sessions will be available using the Echo 360 course-capture technology. Viewers will not need to purchase the Echo 360 application. Instructions for using the Echo 360 files, including technical requirements, are available at the link below.
Each class session will be broken up into two or more components for ease of viewing. An outline summary of the topic for each component will be provided. Links to sessions will be listed below, a few weeks after the class itself, in order to allow for processing and editing.
Patrick Byrne welcomes questions about the class sessions, and will do his best to respond in a timely fashion.
Instructions for users
INSIGHT AND BEYOND I, Fall Semester 2009
Introduction to Lonergan's Thought
(Class 9/9/09, Part 1) |
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“Introduction” & “Preface”; Exercise in Self-Appropriation
(Class 9/9/09, Part 2) |
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“Self-Appropriation”; “Preface" & Introduction”
(Class 9/16/09, part 1) |
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Overview of Chapter 1; “Dramatic Instance” & “Definition,”
CH 1 §§1&2 (Class 9/16/09, part 2) |
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“Definitions,”
CH 1 §2 (Class 09/23/09, part 1) |
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“Definitions, Inverse Insight, Higher Viewpoint, Empirical Residue”;
CH 1, §2-5 (Class 09/23/09, part 2) |
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Why Does Lonergan Begin with Science? Math & Science Compared
CH 2 §1 (Class 09/30/09, part 1) |
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“Classical Heuristic Structure; Inferences from Classical Laws”;
CH 2 §§2&3 (Class 09/23/09, part 2) |
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Systematic and Non-Systematic Processes
CH 2 §3 (Class 10/7/09, part 1) |
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Non-systematic Processes & “Statistical Heuristic Structure;s”
CH 2 §§3&4 (Class 10/7/09, part 2) |
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