Talk by Richard Carrier

How and Why We All Should Be Good Philosophers

Honing our philosophical skills is important. We need them for building a coherent, evidence-based worldview to guide and center us, and that we can allow to change as we learn or realize new things. What skills do we need? How can we develop them? What should we do with them? Richard Carrier, Ph.D., author of Sense and Goodness without God, will outline the basics with entertaining examples.

This talk is replacing the talk by Susan Jacoby who has changed her date to April 21st. It is sponsored by the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, Michigan Atheists, and the Humanists of Southeast Michigan.

Richard Cevantis Carrier is an American historian, atheist, activist, author, public speaker, and blogger. He has a doctorate in ancient history from Columbia University where his thesis was on the history of science in antiquity.

There will be a Shabbat service prior to his talk.