Interesting talk

PEORIA, IL -- From a news release:

THE FIRST ROBERT INGERSOLL LECTURE SERIES

• Sunday, July 30, 2017, 1:30 PM

• Peoria Public Library North Branch

  3001 West Grand Parkway, Peoria, IL (map)
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• Richard Carrier:
  

  "I’ll be giving a speech in honor of Robert G. Ingersoll at the Peoria Library North Branch (3001 W. Grand Pkwy) at 1:30pm. I’ll be speaking on Ingersoll’s influence on me and what he might say of the world of today, in honor of local humanists who with this very event are inaugurating a Robert Ingersoll lecture series. I’ll be selling & signing my books. And we might go out for drinks after."

  
  

  ABOUT DR. RICHARD CARRIER

  Dr. Carrier  is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American free thought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism. His books and articles have received international attention.

   

  With a Ph.D. from Columbia University in ancient history, he specializes in the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, particularly ancient philosophy, religion, and science, with emphasis on the origins of Christianity and the use and progress of science under the Roman empire. He is also a published expert in the modern philosophy of naturalism as a worldview. He is the author of:

  On the Historicity of Jesus

  Proving History

  Sense and Goodness without God

  Science Education in the Early Roman Empire Not the Impossible Faith

  Why I Am Not a Christian

  Hitler Homer Bible Christ

  On the Historicity of Jesus

  Dr. Carrier is a contributor to The Empty Tomb, The Christian Delusion, The End of Christianity, and Christianity Is Not Great, as well as copious work in history and philosophy, online and in print.

   

  He is currently working on several projects, but also teaching affordable online courses in secular philosophy, history, and methodology at The Secular Academy, and blogging and speaking about history, philosophy, feminism, and other moral causes, as well as his past in the military. - 30 -