Book Club

Name: CFIC T.O. – Science & Philosophy Book Club
Start: 2016-04-25T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-04-25T21:00:00-04:00

September 2013
The Science and Philosophy Book Club – Reinventing the sacred : a new view of science, reason and religion by Stuart A. Kauffman

September 30, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This group is dedicated to providing a friendly, free-thinking environment in which to discuss books that inspire rewarding conversation on subjects related to science and philosophy. Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke,...
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May 2014
TORONTO: Science and Philosophy Book Club – Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett

May 26, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Scallywag's 11 St Clair Ave, Toronto, ontario, Canada

Join guest host, Heider Alward for a discussion on Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained. Consciousness Explained is a book from 1991 by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett which offers an account of how consciousness arises from interaction of physical and cognitive processes in the brain. This book can be read with genuine pleasure by a non-philosopher;...
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July 2014
TORONTO: Science and Philosophy Book Club – The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets and People, by Neil Shubin

July 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Scallywag's 11 St Clair Ave, Toronto, ontario, Canada

In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago. Now, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, he takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we...
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February 2015
Banned Books Club: Orwell’s Animal Farm

February 22, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nino's Fireside Room 801 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

OK folks, we are trying something a little different with the date and time of our meeting, though the location is the same. And this round’s book is George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell, published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book...
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April 2016
CFIC T.O. – Science & Philosophy Book Club

April 25, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hosted by CFI Canada member Christine Gagnon, the goal is to provide a friendly, free-thinking environment in which to discuss books that inspire rewarding conversation on subjects related to science and philosophy. It takes place at our National Headquarters, 55 Eglinton Ave E., Suite 307, from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Suggested donation is $5. There is...
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April 2016