A.R.T. Meetings
Association for Rational Thought Meetings are free, open to the public, and held the second
Saturday of each month, September through June, 10:00 AM to 12:00
PM. The meetings will be held at Molly Malone's (formerly The
Dubliner) in Pleasant Ridge. This is in Pleasant Ridge near the intersection of Ridge Ave. & Montgomery Road. At this point, Ridge is running nearly due north-south. The restaurant is about 3 doors east of the intersection, on the north side of the street. |
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9/11/2010
Chaplain Judith R. Ragsdale,
Ph.D.
"The use of
religion in coping with illness".
Judith R. Ragsdale is the Director of Research and
Education
Department of Pastoral Care
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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8/14/2010
Picnic at Susan &
Bernie's
Potluck - 4:00 pm - There is a thread in the
Blog where people can
list what they intend to bring.
Further details will be on the
postcards or Emailed.
We hope to have enough chairs, but some extra folding
chairs might help
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6/12/2010
Fernald
Road Trip
The Association for Rational Thought Presents-
"History of the Fernald Preserve"
Nuclear Age Icon becomes a Nature Preserve
Saturday, June 12th, 10 AM at the Meeting Room, in the
Hamilton, OH 45013 phone: 648-4899
You may bring a dish for pot luck or pack a lunch.
Driving directions
Google maps
More detail
New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/us/20park.html?
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5/8/2010 Dr. Bill Jensen "Ambiguous Icons of Skepticism"
In their ongoing fight to defend reliable and rationale knowledge against the continuous onslaught of pseudoscience and superstition, modern skeptics frequently cite both Karl Popper's criterion that true science must be capable of empirical falsification and Hume's adage that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. However, few realize that the writings of these two philosophers have also been the source of many ideas used by some modern philosophers of science to attack the very concept of science that the members of ART hope to defend. This irony was first pointed out some years ago by the Australian philosopher David Stove. The talk will summarize Stove's critique of the roles played by both Popper and Hume in these attacks as outlined in his two books "Popper and After: Four Modern Irrationalists" (1984) and "Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult" (2001).
UC Professor of the History of Chemistry, Dr. Bill Jensen |
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| 4/10/2010 Wolf Roder
"The Supervolcano" A talk on volcanoes, including supervolcanoes at Yellowstone and the Toba eruption 70,000 years ago.
Wolf Roder's research has been concerned with rural development and water resources. He is author of "Human Adjustment to Kainji Reservoir in Nigeria" and "The Sabi Valley Irrigation Projects" [in Zimbabwe]. He served as Fulbright exchange professor at the University of Zambia. He has traveled in southern, eastern, western, and northern Africa, and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, but is a long way from having visited "all" of the continent. |
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| 3/13/2010 Dean Regas "The New Solar System - How Pluto & Other Oddballs Fit In" -OR- Pluto, Don't Be So Rational.
Outreach Astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory Center. Dean's profile: The stars captured me in 1998 while working at Cincinnati's Wolff Planetarium in Burnet Woods. It was there that I discovered a passion for astronomy and have since become a local expert in observational astronomy, star identification and mythology. I have written over 60 astronomy articles for the Cincinnati Enquirer and Community Press and have been featured on local television and radio. I have been the Outreach Astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory since 2000. |
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| 2/13/2010 Howard Tolley Jr. "Strange Bedmates: Conservative and Liberal Advocates for Judicial Activism" New Deal liberals condemned the conservative activists who invalidated progressive economic regulations, and 21st Century conservatives denounce liberal activist judges for legislating from the bench on abortion, gay rights, criminal procedure, and religious liberty. Progressives on the left and libertarians on the right have recently joined forces in suits asking judges to find unconstitutional overbroad criminal laws, bans on gay marriage, and limits on gun ownership. Are there any principled legal boundaries or legitimate political checks on the abuse of Judicial Review by justices who substitute personal policy preferences for the choices made by popularly elected legislators?
UC Professor of Political Science and adjunct Professor of Law Howard Tolley Jr. earned a PhD at Columbia and a JD as a human rights fellow at the UC College of Law. He served as President of the Cincinnati ACLU and member of the state board, clerked for a judge on the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and does fact finding/mediation in public sector labor disputes for the State Employment Relations Board. He teaches undergraduate public law courses on the U.S. legal system and Constitution as well as international law and human rights. His publications include three sole authored books and nine interactive Teaching Human Rights Online cases http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/ |
| 1/9/2010 ART Members "Ten Minute Free-for-all" |
| 12/12/2009 Shirley Maul "An Exploration of the Creative Process" A presentation of selected sections of performances followed by an attempt to answer the questions "How do you think of these things?" and "What makes one performance Art, and another performance not Art?"
Shirley Maul, a former recipient of an Ohio Arts Fellowship, has been creating performances and collaborating in group performance pieces for 20 years. Shirley has performed in several venues in the Cincinnati area, as well as in Columbus, Cleveland and Yellow Springs. |
| 11/14/2009 Steve Driehaus Healthcare |
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10/10/2009 Larry Schweikert, University of Dayton "Bad History Textbooks" This talk will be "48 Liberal Lies About American History", based on his book. He looks at the top 20 U.S. history textbooks, how they cover different events and people, and the bias that is present in almost all. From notions that Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, ended the Cold War to the view that the transcontinental railroads couldn't have been built without government funding, to famous trials (Sacco and Vanzetti or the Rosenbergs) the bias is consistent and often fairly blatant. |
| 9/12/2009 Gary Weiss "Backgammon for Blood" Job Title: Professor of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati Gary is a highly experienced, competitive backgammon player.
The ancient game of backgammon is a basic, simplified metaphor for
life, business strategy and government policy formation. Sometimes the obvious decision is the wrong decision, and the proof of this will be explained.
The first half hour Gary will explain the basic rules and movement and betting. The rest of the time will involve playing games and discussing moves. Gary will dissect games in real-time projected on a screen. All opinions will be entertained and briefly analyzed.
If you have ever wondered about the wedges printed on the under side of the checker board, don't miss our first meeting of the year! |
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