The seven meetings will allow discussions to be carried over from one session to the next. Issues raised in one session can be examined during the following session. This accords with the purpose of the series, which is to put into practice the principles of reasoned discussion - laying out arguments, identifying issues, clarifying meanings, making distinctions and evaluating and criticizing assumptions. The leader will be Gordon Brumm, Ph.D., former philosophy instructor. The meetings are free and open to residents of all communities and all ages.
Students are welcome.
However, the enrollment is limited. This was the question discussed at the Lakewood Public Library for seven Thursday evenings, from April 9 through May 21. The group included a Libertarian contingent and one that was more communitarian. However, the discussions were more about censorship than about the Internet, and mostly about censorship for the benefit of children. From this point of view, the Internet needs special scrutiny because it magnifies the possibility of making any kind of material whatsoever available to children, including material that on some views needs to be censored.