FALL 2026 PUBLIC TALK
Thursday, OCTOBER 15, 7PM, COB Auditorium
Please join us in in the College of Business Auditorium to hear Professor Massimo Pigliucci's talk "How to be a (Happy) Skeptic". Prof Pigliucci is K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at City College of New York.
Abstract: Two thousand years before "do your own research" became a slogan, Cicero was already
asking how a reasonable person should hold beliefs without either credulity or paralysis.
Drawing on Academic Skepticism's tools — probability-weighted belief, arguing both
sides, calibrated doubt — this talk makes the case that skepticism isn't corrosive
to a good life; done right, it's a path to one.
FALL 2026 COLLOQUIUM
Friday, OCTOBER 16, 4-6PM, CR 118
Students are also welcome to join us for Professor Pigliucci's colloquium talk in the Classroom Building Room 118. Prof Pigliucci will speak for one hour, followed by an hour of Q&A. Students who attend are invited to join Prof Pigliucci and the Philosophy & Religion department for dinner after the talk.
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