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Truth Cinema Melbourne provides an opportunity to see films exploring alternative points of view on a wide range of contemporary topics. Expect to see documentaries on everything mysterious, controversial, arcane and innovative. Broaden your knowledg…
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Welcome San Antonio Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Humanists, and Freethinkers of all ages Click here to access the FACT website. The Mission of FACT is to increase public awareness of the benefits of freethought and support causes that employ reaso… |
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In my work as a clergyman, I find myself going back to the great philosophers constantly -- the Greeks -- e.g., Plato, Aristotle, the Romans -- e.g. Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, and any modern thinkers who thought is connected to the ancients. It occurs… |
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This group is a place to meet others interested in rationality and cognitive bias. Come learn with us... and socialize, too! Since Kahneman and Tversky pioneered the science of human decision-making in the 1970's, researchers have developed a good un… |
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Since the beginning I've had a sense that there ought to be some discipline of cognition, some art of thinking, the studying of which would make its students visibly more competent, more formidable: the equivalent of Taking a Level in Awesome. - "A S…
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Logical Reasoning, Rational thought and Skeptical Thinking, Intellectual Discussion, Atheism, Science, Philosophy, Self-Improvement, Critical Thinking, Rationality and Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence, Probability Theory, Technological Singularity, Philanthropy, Psychology, Less Wrong, Show more...Show less...
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In the opening words to the preface of the first edition of Critique of Pure Reason, Kant says that our reason burdens us with questions we cannot ignore, but questions we also cannot answer. That's pretty much Philosophy, isn't it? It's got us think… |
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How does one live a good life? This simple question can be surprisingly difficult to answer. Yet not taking an honest try at answering it (or even worse: ignoring the question entirely) can lead to the risk of misliving one's life. One of the main go… |
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We are a group that meets to discuss rationality: how to believe true things, and how to accomplish your goals. We have lively discussions and skill-shares on a variety of topics relating to rationality.
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A group of people helping each other apply rationality to our everyday lives, in order to improve our skills, make the best decisions, become productive and achieve our goals.
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So you want to live the good life... Do you have a life philosophy to help guide you? Sounds too difficult? It is more simple than you would imagine. It is all about letting of what really does not matter... Stoic philosophy, one of the most popul…
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Philosophy, Ethics, Intellectual Discussion, Philosophy-Medicine-Humanitarianism-and-Wellbeing., Philosophy-Ethics-Politics-and-Religion., Stoicism, Buddhist Philosophy, Ethical Humanist, Morality and Ethics, Socratic Dialogues, Plato's Republic, Plotinus and Neo Platonism, Currents and Themes in Philosophy, Rationality and Reasoning, Show more...Show less...
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Started after "A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior" by Dan Ariely. Trying to find people interested in the topic to discuss/learn and apply new findings of behavioral economics and neuroscience. I don't have academic background in the area so w… |
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A fraternity seeking to improve ourselves and our world by reviving the lost art of virtue. All subjects important to true hearted men are open for discussion, debate and analysis, save religion and politics. Using each other as a sounding board, a s…
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Let's get together to drink beer and talk science! Anything goes, but we will focus on what science says about Large Questions ('Are humans good or evil?') and possibly share our latest research concerns/results/issues/ideas. A keen conviction re the… |
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The mission of this group is to facilitate non-judgmental experimental constellations (which are a form of energetic explorations) on various topics of interest of the group members, who would like to explore consciousness in a creative playful way.… |
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This is a group dedicated to advancing and promoting critical thinking, reason and evidence-based methodology as the only reliable strategies to accurately understand reality. Our intent is to assume an activist role in the Tri-State area exposing an… |
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How does one live a good life? This simple question can be surprisingly difficult to answer. Yet not taking an honest try at answering it (or even worse: ignoring the question entirely) can lead to the risk of misliving one's life. One of the main go… |
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So you want to live the good life... Do you have a life philosophy to help guide you? Sounds too difficult? It is more simple than you would imagine. It is all about letting of what really does not matter... Stoic philosophy, one of the most popul…
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Philosophy, Ethics, Intellectual Discussion, Philosophy-Medicine-Humanitarianism-and-Wellbeing., Philosophy-Ethics-Politics-and-Religion., Stoicism, Buddhist Philosophy, Ethical Humanist, Morality and Ethics, Socratic Dialogues, Plato's Republic, Plotinus and Neo Platonism, Currents and Themes in Philosophy, Rationality and Reasoning
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Since the beginning I've had a sense that there ought to be some discipline of cognition, some art of thinking, the studying of which would make its students visibly more competent, more formidable: the equivalent of Taking a Level in Awesome. - "A S…
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I'd like to get together regularly with fellow Ayn Rand enthusiasts. I am a long-term advocate of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's philosophy, and have studied it for over 30 years. If you loved The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and take their ideas serious… |
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