Center for Inquiry Summer Session 2006 (Amherst, New York)

[Ian David]

Center for Inquiry Summer Session 2006

Don't miss out on this exciting gathering featuring Dr. Paul Kurtz in a special "capstone" career summation of his thoughts on secular humanism, ethics, and skepticism.


At the Center for Inquiry, we do our most serious thinking in the summer. CFI’s Summer Session 2006 is a unique educational experience bringing together scientists, philosophers, religious historians, and an international student body for lectures, small-group discussions, and excursions to Western New York cultural and natural attractions. If you are looking to nourish your interest in science, religion, rationalism or humanism, join us for over four weeks of soul searching—for skeptics.

Since 1991 inquirers have gathered at Amherst, New York each summer for what has become the core program of the Center for Inquiry – Institute. Course offerings have ranged from intensive seminars, packed into every minute of a long weekend, to course-length immersion sessions.

CFI - Institute Summer Session 2006 combines both learning styles. A 3-day intensive seminar on “Jihad and the West” – led by best-selling scholar-critic (and CFI Fellow) Ibn Warraq and physician-scholar Andrew Bostom – unravels today’s most critical confrontation between our secular society and Islam. Concurrently, a 4+ week immersion program, “Core Values of the New Enlightenment,” will probe the philosophical and moral underpinnings of secular humanism and our larger agenda of critical inquiry.



Attend either or both. Summer Session 2006 offers the educational experience(s) of a lifetime, scheduled without overlaps so you can experience it all. You can also observe portions of two other exciting weekend events: the Second Annual Convocation of Centers and Communities for Inquiry (a leadership training session for CFI volunteers from across the country) and the Center for Inquiry - On Campus Student Leadership Conference. This Tenth Anniversary Student Leadership Conference will be filled with workshops, roundtable discussions, top-notch entertainment, and lectures by leaders in the science advocacy, secular humanist, and skeptic movements.


Choose between two convenient program schedules:

Intensive Seminar: July 12-14.


Full Summer Session: July 12-August 11.

COURSES

Jihad And The West -- 3-Day Intensive Seminar
July 12-14

Twin minicourses probing today's Islamic crisis and Qu'ranic Criticism. Courses taught by the distinguished Ibn Warraq and Andrew Bostom.

The Core Values of the New Enlightenment
July 12-August 11

Presented over more than four weeks, three full-length courses will explore and explain the fundamentals of the secular-humanist lifestance from philosophical, moral, and methodological perspectives. Attend one, two, or all. Courses include, "Eupraxsophy and Philosophy," taught by Dr. Paul Kurtz; "Critical Inquiry," taught by Dr. David Koepsell; and "Pragmatism," taught by Dr. John R. Shook.



FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION:
Register online at http://www.centerforinquiry.net/education/ or call 1-800 634-1610 or [phone]