Sun Jan 09 – [Online] The Variety of Scientisms & the Limits of Science

This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions

Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.

For our featured presentation this Sunday, we will be watching and then discussing a video of a CFI (centreforinquiry.org) talk by Massimo Pigliucci: The Variety of Scientisms & the Limits of Science. This talk took place at the CSICon 2018 in Las Vegas on October 19, 2018.

Prof. Massimo Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He currently is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His research interests include the philosophy of biology, the relationship between science and philosophy, the nature of pseudoscience, and the practical philosophy of Stoicism.

Tania Akon, a Toronto Oasis organizer, will introduce the CFI talk and moderate the discussion that will follow.

Please RSVP on meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/bhgwksydccbmb/

Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!