{"id":1121,"date":"2012-10-08T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:17:12","slug":"richard-carrier-cfi-uk-london-event-16th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2012\/10\/08\/richard-carrier-cfi-uk-london-event-16th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Carrier – CFI UK London event 16th November"},"content":{"rendered":"

This should be a really interesting talk (organized by myself for CFI UK) from one of the world’s leading skeptics. He is the author of a controversial new book on the quest for the historical Jesus. Hope to see some of you there…<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Carrier: Bayes’ Theorem and Historical Reasoning: How Historical Methods Can Be Improved and Why They Need to Be<\/h3>\n
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16th November 2012<\/th>\n <\/td>\n <\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Stamford Street Lecture Theatre<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
7.30pm – 9pm (7.00pm registration)<\/th>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Drawing from his new book Proving\u00a0History:\u00a0Bayes’s\u00a0Theorem\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Quest\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0Historical\u00a0Jesus<\/em> (Prometheus, 2012), Dr. Carrier will explain what Bayes’ Theorem is\u00a0(in terms anyone can understand), how it underlies all valid historical methods even\u00a0when we don’t realize it, and why knowing this can improve historical reasoning and\u00a0argument in all fields of history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a37. \u00a35 student<\/p>\n

Free – “Friends of CFI”(and LAAG)<\/p>\n

Venue<\/h3>\n

Stamford Street Lecture Theatre<\/p>\n

Franklin Wilkins Building<\/p>\n

Waterloo Campus<\/p>\n

King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

127 Stamford Street<\/p>\n

London<\/p>\n

SE1 9NQ<\/p>\n

Nearest tube: Waterloo<\/em><\/p>\n

19.00 for a 19.30 start<\/p>\n

About the speaker<\/h3>\n

Richard Carrier is an American historian and philosopher and author of several\u00a0books which have received international attention, including The\u00a0Empty\u00a0Tomb<\/em> and Why\u00a0I\u00a0am\u00a0Not\u00a0a\u00a0Christian<\/em>. Richard now specializes in the modern\u00a0philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of\u00a0Greece and Rome. Richard also writes for and was Editor in Chief of the Secular Web\u00a0(Internet Infidels).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This should be a really interesting talk (organized by myself for CFI UK) from one of the world’s leading skeptics. He is the author of a controversial new book on the quest for the historical Jesus. Hope to see some of you there… Richard Carrier: Bayes’ Theorem and Historical Reasoning: How Historical Methods Can Be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}