CURRENT EVENTS

No current special events.  Come to our lectures every 2nd & 4th Tuesday

PAST EVENTS

Talks by Peter Boghossian

"Street Epistemology"

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 7:00 PM

TCU Brown-Lupton University Union

2901 Stadium Drive, Fort Worth, TX

"A Manual for Creating Atheists"

Saturday, March 22, 2014 1:00 PM

UT Dallas - Clark Center 1.112

800 West Campbell Rd

Richardson, TX 75080, Dallas, TX

Check our meetup for changes and updates: http://www.meetup.com/North-Texas-Skeptics/

Abstract

In this provocative talk, Dr. Boghossian will detail tools to help people talk others out of faith and superstition and into reason. There will also be an extended Q&A. People of faith are encouraged to attend and ask questions.

About

Dr Peter Boghossian is a full-time faculty member in the philosophy department at Portland State University. He has an extensive publication record across multiple domains of thought. Dr Boghossian is a national speaker for the Secular Student Alliance and CFI, and an international speaker for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He was thrown out of the doctoral program in the University of New Mexico's philosophy department.

His book is available now.

A Manual for Creating Atheists

A Pitchstone Book

www.pitchstonepublishing.com

November 2013

ISBN 978-098449321-0 

THE HUMAN JOURNEY  David Drumm, L.U.T.

The Human Journey returns with an exploration of the Axial Age, roughly from 900-200 B.C.E. In the words of Karen Armstrong: "The prophets, mystics, philosophers, and poets of the Axial Age were so advanced that later generations tended to dilute it…All the traditions of the Axial Age pushed forward the frontiers of human consciousness and discovered a transcendent dimension in the core of their being…"

In the April 6 class we will cover the rise of ethical monotheism and the idea of the covenant community in Israel, and contemporary developments in Persia and other parts of the surrounding Middle East. 

The series continues with classes on May 11 (the beginnings of Western philosophy), June 8 (early Hinduism and Buddhism) and July 13 (Confucianism and Taoism).        

Consistent with the overall theme of The Human Journey, these movements in the four great cultural domains will be presented as a great and important chapter in the evolutionary story of Spirit’s ongoing movement through the historical process to become conscious of itself. 

All of David Drumm's classes are offered on a love offering basis and support the educational programs at Unity of Dallas.

Saturday, April 6, 2013 

Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Lane

10AM - 1PM

WHY IS DEATH BAD FOR YOU?   Shelly Kagan (Yale)

abstract: Drawing on arguments from Epicurus and Lucretius, this lecture explores the deprivation account of the badness of death.

March 1, 2013

Southern Methodist University

Umphrey Lee Rm 241

3PM - 5PM

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A WORKSHOP ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF WELL-BEING  

March 2, 2013

Southern Methodist University

Hughes-Trigg Forum

9:30aM - 6PM

9:30 - 11:30  “A New Theory of Well-Being (built on a Theory of Ill-Being)”  Jennifer Hawkins (Duke)

1:30 - 3:30   “The Goods & Evils of Death”  Steve Campbell (Coe College)

4:00 - 6:00   “Ill-Being”  Shelly Kagan  (Yale)

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