Showing posts with label Humanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humanism. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 September 2009

Mr Dennett again . . .

Just another chance to hear the wonderful Dan Dennett speak again. I had the chance to hear this talk earlier in the year in London.

Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell from Leslie A. Zukor on Vimeo.

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Monday, 22 June 2009

Christopher Hitchens

Love him or hate him, Mr Hitchens is always fun to watch. I don't always agree with him (his views on Iraq for instance) but you can't say that he pulls his punches. He's ruthlessly honest about his opinions and happy to stand up for them. Enjoy.

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Daniel Dennett Lecture "A Darwinian Perspective on Religions: Past, Present and Future"


Dan Dennett is a towering figure in the world of philosophy, this is a video of a lecture that I was lucky enough to attend a few months ago.

Richard Dawkins says in the introduction that he's the kind of philosopher that scientists like. That's because he's spent his entire career keeping pace with what the scientific community are doing.

It was a fantastic evening.

I highly recommend his book:

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Douglas Adams: Parrots the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this talk at UCSB recorded shortly before his death, Adams shares accounts of some of the apparently absurd lifestyles of the world's creatures, and gleans from them extraordinary perceptions about the future of humanity.