Category: Forums

Craig Dunkerley

11 a.m., June 2, 2019

Craig Dunkerley, Southbay Coordinator of the California Clean Money Campaign (www.yesfairelections.org), will discuss his organization’s recent victories and current efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics.

California Clean Money Campaign is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 2002 that works on various election reforms, with a primary focus on reducing the influence of special interest money in politics.

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Carl Angotti

11 a.m., May 26, 2019

This presentation is based on the concepts discussed in the book “On Bullshit” by Harry G. Frankfurt, 2005, Princeton University Press – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Princeton.

We will explore such concepts as:

What is BS?
Why is there so much of it?
What is the Difference between BS and a Lie?
What is a BS Artist?
What do the New Ideas of Modern Psychology have to contribute?

As such, this presentation will focus on some of the major concepts discussed in Frankfurt’s Book. These ideas will be combined with those of modern psychological knowledge and how it operates to enhance, and even contribute to the BS found all around us. These ideas can illustrate how most, if not all, of us contribute to the pool of BS in the World.

Bio:

This presentation will be given by Carl Angotti, a longtime member of the Humanist Community. He is trained and worked as an Electronic Engineering Product Development Consultant in Silicon Valley for many years. He holds an BS from Carnegie-Mellon University and MS from USC in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA in Business from SJSU. He has also been an amateur student of Philosophy, Psychology and Economics since his youth and early adulthood.

He was intrigued by the concept of BS and how it operates in everyday life, in advertising and in politics.

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Leland Chan

11 a.m., May 19, 2019

Did the framers of the Second Amendment intend only to protect the right to bear arms within a “well-regulated militia”? Proponents of gun control say yes. But does it even matter what the framers of the Constitution intended? Why can’t we just craft rules that make sense today? Does the Constitution guarantee the right to own guns for self-defense? For defense against a tyrannical government? What kind of arms are covered by the Second Amendment? And who decides? We will try to answer these questions in the latest installment of the Mini Law School.

Leland Chan is an Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law.

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Ron Garret

11 a.m., May 12, 2019

This is another in a series of talks on the history of science and how we came to our present understanding of how our world works. This installment focuses on relativity and electro-magnetism.

Ron Garret is a software engineer by trade. He is currently working on easy-to-use-cryptography software. He was a co-founder and CTO of Virgin Charter, and an early hire at Google. He was previously a rocket scientist. He also made a feature-length documentary about homelessness. His blog can be found here.

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