Token Skeptic Lecture At UWA And Critical Thinking And Philosophy In Schools Conference

I recently got back from some fantastic lectures in Melbourne earlier this month – at RMIT, Melbourne University, Monash University and for the newly-launched Melbourne Skeptics and Melbourne Eastern Hills Skeptics Skeptics in the Pub with Warren Bonett of Embiggen Bookstore (which will soon open in Melbourne). Now I’m doing more presentations this week – on philosophy, critical thinking in schools and podcasting! Read More  Read More

Episode Fifty-Two – On Thinking Freely In Western Sydney – Interview With Alan Conradi

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (55.9MB) | Embed Direct download to episode (mp3) here! “My use of the term ‘Freethought’ is an attempt to join the various groups together. It does not come with the negative connotations of the various other labels that have been assigned to such groups before and is therefore more accessible to the wider community. Freethought seems to be less likely to shy away from any topics, which... Read More

Episode Forty-Six – On The Australian Book Of Atheism – Perth Launch

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (39.9MB) | Embed Link to the mp3 of this episode – here! First and foremost and absolutely before anything – thanks to Jane and Beaufort Street Books in Mt Lawley, Warren Bonett and Peter Cartledge.We had a live-Skype crossover Q&A with Warren in front of a packed bookstore to talk about The Australian Book of Atheism. This episode features how the book started, the contributors and how it was... Read More

Episode Forty-Five – On Women, Myths, Feminism and Skepticism – Live Dragon*Con Panel

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (71.6MB) | Embed Direct Link to mp3 here! The following is taken from one of the Dragon*Con panels: Women: Myths, Feminism And Skepticism – Puzzled by feminine mystique? Still searching for your ‘inner Velma’? Attend this panel by a range of experienced investigators on the topics of gender, pop-culture and what science REALLY tells us! Desiree Schell, Barbara Drescher, Donna Mugavero, K.O. Myers,... Read More

Episode Forty-Three – On The Australian Amazing Meeting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (66.9MB) Welcome to episode forty-three! Direct download of the MP3 here. Interviews include: Nicholas and Alex Southhall  – Warren Bonett and the Booksellers for Embiggen Books – Simon Singh – Jack Scanlan of the Young Australian Skeptics -  Madge Carew-Hopkins the winner of the TAMOz student scholarship – Thom Perry, one of the webdesigners and branding experts for the TAMOz convention... Read More

Episode Twenty-Five – On Books – The Second Embiggen Book Review Show

Welcome to episode twenty-five of the Token Skeptic! This week I’m interviewing Warren Bonett of Embiggen Books, for the second book-review episode! Warren’s bookstore, Embiggen Books, is in Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Their website is www.embiggenbooks.com. The books reviewed for this episode are: Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God – A Novel, by Rebecca Goldstein; Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. You’ll... Read More

Episode Twenty-Two – On Rights (Lecture By A.C Grayling)

This is the second half of the Professor AC Grayling lecture recorded on the second of March at ChristChurch Grammar school – this is on the concept of rights. Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are “Ideas That... Read More

Episode Twenty-One – On Truth, Realism And Non-Realism (Lecture By A.C Grayling)

This is episode twenty-one and a slight deviation from the usual fare! This is a recorded lecture from A.C Grayling, taken at a presentation he did in Perth earlier this year, suitable for high-school students. Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and... Read More

Episode Seven – On Critical Thinking (Interview Kylie Sturgess And Michael McRae – Expanding Horizons)

It’s a missing episode! This is an interview that is thanks to Expanding Horizons. Expanding Horizons is a Unitarian church radio show from South Australia, featured on Radio Adelaide 101.5 and hosted by Brian Menzies. With a wide range of topics and investigations, Brian was kind enough last year to call upon both Michael McRae and I to talk about our experiences as teachers and to address that tricky question: ‘What is critical thinking’? I... Read More