I really enjoyed being a guest on the Skeptic Canary Show podcast where we covered lots of issues and philosophy,…
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I have been invited to come talk on the Skeptical Canary Show podcast on Wednesday evening (7pm), GMT, by Dr…
I am pretty excited that my biggest talk to date will take place later this month on Thursday 29th May…
I was invited to speak on the last night of Reason Week at Southampton University, organised by the Atheist Society. I have spoken there a number of ties and know the people who run it and really enjoy speaking there. There are some philosophy students who are involved which means that the chat in the pub afterwards is always engaging and often properly geeky. Nice.
So, a few dates are in the calendar for some talks. If you are around the south of the UK,…
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Be there, or be square. Jonathan Pearce: The Nativity Hi all, This Monday, 2nd December, local skeptic and author Jonathan Pearce will…
I have been away for the weekend, so a little more quiet. Last week, I did a talk for the newly created Worthing Skeptics in the Pub at which I even received a live piano introduction. Nice! The pianist played ‘The Devil in Disguise’ I believe – fitting.
Come along to the newly created Worthing Skeptics in the Pub this Thursday for whom I will be doing a…
Come along if you are around!
I did my Nativity talk at the Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub (nice boutique beer pub with a menu of…
I have a couple of talks organised for the next few weeks, starting with a talk on the Nativity at High Wycombe Skeptics in the Pub on Wednesday 25th of September, details of which can be found here.
Here is my talk to the Dorset Humanists given this last week. It was really well received and got great feedback from audience and organisers alike. The video is of good quality though you may need to turn it up to hear some of the questions a little more clearly. The chops are out and looking mighty bushy, so all seems to have gone well.
I gave my first talk of this name this week to Dorset Humanists, covering five different arguments (4 against God…
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Last night’s meeting at Portsmouth Skeptics int he Pub was great fun. Rather than have a single speaker, previous speakers…
To let any local people know, I have three talks sorted out.
Tomorrow night at the Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub, I will be hosting a table in a night of round table discussions. I will table a number of philosophical thought experiments to get people to open up and chat.
For your edification and interest: Be there, or be square!
About two weeks ago I was contacted about participating in a conference next year at the University of Groningen. In 2014 they are celebrating their 400th anniversary so it seems appropriate it relate to something else from 1614. In that year, Johannes Kepler published his tome on chronology, arguing that Jesus was born several years earlier than was the tradition in his time (on Dec 25 in 1 BC). In that book, he also talked about the Star of Bethlehem, and this is the apparent link for this conference.
I was lucky enough to be asked back to the Dorset Humanists, based in Bournemouth, UK, to give a talk on free will. I had previously given them a talk on the Nativity, based on my book, The Nativity: A Critical Examination. They appeared to enjoy it enough to ask me back, and I obliged.