{"id":392,"date":"2013-02-19T12:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=392"},"modified":"2013-02-19T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T01:27:04","slug":"tam2013-big-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/02\/19\/tam2013-big-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"TAM2013 – big announcement!"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time, I’ve been promising<\/a> that I had some\u00a0big announcements to start rolling out.\u00a0 So often with these things, deals take a while from when they are first in the offing to when they are finalised. And even then there are sometimes reasons to sit on them for a while. I’m still sitting on one or two.<\/p>\n

One big announcement that I’ve been sitting on for some time now, since it was finalised, is that I’ll be speaking at The Amazing Meeting 2013\u00a0<\/a>in July. I’m very excited about this. TAM is one of the premier events in the world for the broad secularist\/atheist\/skeptic movement, and perhaps the<\/em> premier event related specifically to scientific skepticism. To be invited to speak there is a wonderful honour and privilege, and I couldn’t be more delighted about it.<\/p>\n

Check out the fantastic list of speakers. I feel quite humble being on that list, but I’m going to do my thing to the best of my ability\u00a0and hope to deserve my place there! Among the speakers are friends whom I’ve already met and will be very pleased to catch up with – I’m thinking especially of DJ Grothe and Jerry Coyne, but no offence to anyone else. Others are people whom I consider friends but have never met. Others I have met briefly, but I look forward to getting to know them better. Still others are just people that I admire. Really, I am very, very happy at the list of names. One who is (maybe)\u00a0not that well known in skeptic circles in\u00a0the US, but who\u00a0is a brilliant choice, is Susan Blackmore – a major public intellectual in the UK and a dynamic speaker.<\/p>\n

(As a side note, we have a number of people there who are associated with 50 Voices of Disbelief<\/em><\/a>, as editors, contributors, or blurb writers. Off the top of my head – hope\u00a0I don’t miss anyone – there’s me, James Randi, Michael Shermer, Susan Blackmore, and Jerry Coyne.)<\/p>\n

The convention theme this year is “Fighting the Fakers” – which raises a question about what I, a humble philosopher, can best say. I am not an expert in investigating\/debunking paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Still, I do have some ideas (possibly even insights)\u00a0that are relevant to the topic and may be of general interest to the sorts of folks who’d be likely to attend.<\/p>\n

I’ll be blogging more about this as the time approaches, and possibly even from the convention. I hope to see y’all there! I do know that there is likely to be a strong presence from the Skeptic Ink Network.<\/p>\n

Good times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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