Sun, 28 September 2008 Recorded live at the 6th CFI Café Inquiry, Thursday, Sept. 11, Prof. Brian Vargus discusses "Polls and Politics: Blue Smoke and Mirrors." Exploring conducting polls and addressing the question, how come no one ever asks me? Dr. Vargus provides a consumers’ guide to reading or listening to poll reports and discusses the role these play in campaigns and reporting upon them. Comments[0] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 Interview: Author John Loftus: "Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity" Sean O'Brien is our special guest host. Comments[0] |
Tue, 29 July 2008 Scott Orr, of the Department of Computer & InformationScience will lead the discussion. Title: My Grandmother, what big teeth you have! This talk introduces some of the issues facing Internet users and offer suggestions on how to minimize your risks. Topics include Spam & Phishing attacks, worms & viruses, and home wireless eavesdropping. Comments[0] |
Tue, 15 July 2008 There is no description for this file! Comments[0] |
Tue, 15 July 2008 Liz Carroll, Vice President of Patient Services, Planned Parenthood of Indiana is the presenter. Comments[0] |
Mon, 28 April 2008
Austin Dacey—Friday, April 25—7:00 pm The Secular Conscience: Why
Belief Belongs in Public Life (Prometheus Books, 2008) at the Center
For Inquiry, Indiana. Austin serves as a representative to the United Nations for the Center for Inquiry. He is also on the editorial staff of Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times. In 2002 Austin earned a doctorate in philosophy. He lives in New York City.
Featured Book and Book Tour: Who holds the monopoly on morality? Cultural conservatives from the Vatican to Washington tell us that ethics presupposes religion, and so religion belongs in public life. Secular liberals counter that conscience is a private matter, a personal choice free from shared standards of truth or right. Conservatives charge that conscience without standards is relativism. Liberals didn’t lose their moral compass—they gave it away. In his incisive new book, The Secular Conscience (Prometheus Books, March 2008), philosopher Austin Dacey breaks this ideological deadlock by boldly rethinking the nature of conscience and its role in public life. Inspired by an earlier tradition he traces to Spinoza and John Stuart Mill, Dacey urges secular liberals to reclaim the language of objective values.
Dacey seeks nothing less than to interrupt a suicide, and he has
written a beautiful primer on how our secular tradition can be rescued
from self-defeat. The Secular Conscience reveals how simplistic
notions of privacy, tolerance, and freedom keep dangerous ideas
sheltered from public debate. This is an extraordinarily useful and
lucid book. Comments[0] |
Sat, 26 April 2008 Austin Dacy from CFI New York joins us to discuss his new book "The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life." Comments[0] |
Thu, 3 April 2008 Darwin Fish, KKK Robes, CFI Anniversary, Craig new books, upcoming events. Comments[0] |
Thu, 6 March 2008 Darwin Day. Exorcism. Bonobo monkeys Comments[0] |

