Sunday & Monday Morning

We had a long start today with Borno and Cheryl - and later we were joined by Rafi, Nafia, Siam, Rith, and Shuvo. Tahsin would be absent today. Our discussion turned to several issues in Economics and Philosophy. In Economics we looked int the recent work of Thomas Picketty, the issues of Capitalism in 19th Century and the pre and post Stock-market crash, the very short introduction to Economics by Partha Dasgupta.

We all read through select areas of Problems of Philosophy, a book which everyone is required to become VERY Familiar with. Every page is full of Russellean witticisms. We also discussed some basic terms used in Philosophy and Science - Deductive and Inductive Logic, of a priori, a posteriori. Bertrand Russell has always been a VERY important part of our class lectures in Anglophiles and this year is no exception too. We also added Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell in our mandatory reading list.

In Monday morning individual works have been assigned in the following order.

1. Nafia = Mathematics + Public Health + Psychology 
2. Cheryl = Neuroscience + Foucauldian Biophysics + Anthropology + Sociology + Org Chemistry
3. Rith = Game Modeling + The Recent Economics Nobel Laureates
4. Borno = Nuclear Fusion + Mechanical Arts
5. Siam =   Computer Sc + Neuroscience + Philosophy + Psychology (Cognitive Philosophy) + Mathematics [the 5 great Pentateuch].

In addition to the "heavy matters" we tried to listen to something "heavy metals". We listened to Amanda Lear's stunning presentation of "Sphinx". Everyone was required to write a 500 words essay on this. We also read W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" to offer a parallel reading. Amanda Lear's performance brings together a great many concoction of emotions and ideas under one single order of Organic Art. Imagine reading and enjoying Sphinx and Second Coming!