John Robert Shook

Lecturing and debating

January 2008    Debated "Does God Exist?" with Christian theologian William Lane Craig. Read Craig's account, read CFI's account (scroll down), and then watch the video.
February 2008   Visited the New York Pragmatist Forum and read a paper on "Thoreau and King on Civil Disobedience".
June 2008         Read a paper on "Pragmatic Naturalism" at the Nordic Pragmatism Conference in Helsinki, and then gave a graduate seminar on pragmatic naturalism at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
July-Aug 2008   Lectured on naturalism and humanist ethics at the Center for Inquiry's Summer Institute.
August 2008      Gave a talk on "Theology over the Edge" at Center for Inquiry West.
November 2008      Gave a talk on "Science vs. the Five Theologies" at the Science and Religion conference at Center for Inquiry Transnational.
January 2009      Gave four talks on secular humanism and naturalism at the Winter Institute 2009 at Center for Inquiry West.

What's new

F.C.S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism: Selected Writings, 1891-1939, edited by John R. Shook and Hugh McDonald.

Published by Prometheus Books, 2008.