John Robert Shook

Lecturing and debating

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.
November 2008      Gave a talk on "Science and 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.
July 2009      Lecturing on humanist ethics and naturalism at the Summer Institute 2009 at Center for Inquiry Amherst.
July 2009   Debated "Does God Exist" with Christian philosopher Doug Geivett at Center for Inquiry Amherst.
September 2009      Spoke about reason, science, and religion at Center for Inquiry Indiana.
December 2009   Chaired a panel of "The God Debates" at the American Philosophical Association meeting in New York City.
Spring 2010   Lecturing on Humanism at Center for Inquiry Amherst.
March 2010   Giving campus talks at Duke University, Elon College, and UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina.
April 2010   Speaking about "Religion under Examination" at Center for Inquiry Indiana.

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.

Visit my other websites

Varieties of Naturalism
The Pragmatism Cybrary
Timeline of American Thought

Journals I help edit

Contemporary Pragmatism
Philo: A Journal
of Philosophy

The Pluralist
Free Inquiry
magazine


Recent books


Dewey’s Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality
Vanderbilt UP, 2000.


Pragmatic Naturalism and Realism
Prometheus Books, 2003.


A Companion to Pragmatism
Blackwell, 2005




Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
Thoemmes Continuum, 2005