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Attended Unicon on Friday and Saturday at the rather impressive surrounds of Melbourne High School (terrible website). It was a small convention, probably around one hundred or so attendees, but with an impressive ten tables for the New Zealand designed WWII miniatures game, Flames of War. My own contribution for the convention, which I ran on Friday night, Saturday day, and on Sunday (for CoG) was Masters of Duck and Leath, an introductory Pendragon-Glorantha-HeroQuest crossover, which went down very well among all three groups - one player even wrote a long poem about their character's experience. It was suitably amusing (as duck adventures are) with the puns coming thick and fast and will all groups following the plot pretty much as expected. Prior to running Masters of Duck and Leath, ran another session of Pendragon on Thursday night, specifically the Castle of Tears and spurred on the posts on the HeroQuest pbem game.
Other events on the weekend included convening The Philosophy Forum, which witnessed a presentation by Dr. Bill Hall on Epistemology of Living Organizations, which emphasised the evolutionary epistemology of Karl Popper, a fair bit from Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis, and a little bit from Herbert Simon's work on bounded rationality in organisations. Was hoping really for a lot less Popper and a lot more Simon, but I understand that Bill has a strong fondness for the works of Popper, which is fine for understanding the process of the development of ideas, but not so great for evaluation of ideas according to differing validity criteria. Even Popper's support for freedom and openness is really a means to the end of better processes for scientific theory, rather than recognition of the legitimacy of moral and aesthetic propositions in their own right; l'art pour l'art would be quite a foreign concept ultimately in Popper's overall schemata.
Other events on the weekend included convening The Philosophy Forum, which witnessed a presentation by Dr. Bill Hall on Epistemology of Living Organizations, which emphasised the evolutionary epistemology of Karl Popper, a fair bit from Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis, and a little bit from Herbert Simon's work on bounded rationality in organisations. Was hoping really for a lot less Popper and a lot more Simon, but I understand that Bill has a strong fondness for the works of Popper, which is fine for understanding the process of the development of ideas, but not so great for evaluation of ideas according to differing validity criteria. Even Popper's support for freedom and openness is really a means to the end of better processes for scientific theory, rather than recognition of the legitimacy of moral and aesthetic propositions in their own right; l'art pour l'art would be quite a foreign concept ultimately in Popper's overall schemata.
