What is SkeptiCamp?
SkeptiCamp is a new kind of BarCamp, a conference whose content is provided by attendees. Where BarCamp is focused on technology, SkeptiCamp instead focuses on topics of interest to skeptics, including science, critical thinking and skeptical inquiry. For full details, including a listing of other camps being organized, visit the SkeptiCamp main page.
Event details
When
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Start time - 12:30 p.m.
End time - approx. 5 p.m., followed by dinner at a nearby restaurant
Where
Discovery building, Room 246 [map]
Arizona State University, main Tempe campus
Tempe, Arizona
Sponsors
Skeptics Society, publisher of Skeptic magazine
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine
The James Randi Educational Foundation, which hosts the annual Amazing Meeting conference
Seeking sponsors! Email skepticamp@discord.org for more information about sponsoring or donating to SkeptiCamp Phoenix. There is also a Facebook group for SkeptiCamp Phoenix.
Schedule
Saturday, March 28th
12:30 p.m. -Sessions begin
Proposed Sessions
Jim Lippard, Positive Side-effects of the Spread of Misinformation
John Lynch, "Academic Freedom" and the Intelligent Design Movement
David Weston, Creating Skeptical Happiness
Shannon Rankin, Critical Thinking for Dummies
Patrick Kuhn, Skepticism in Hume's Treatise
Abe Heward, Multi-level Marketing ("Incredible Business Opportunity")
Jack Ray, Skeptical Dating
Tony Barnhart, Methods of the Pseudo-Psychic
David Jackemeyer, H. Hazlitt's Thinking as a Science
Mike Stackpole, Practical Techniques for Street Skepticism
Don Lacey, Words Important to Skepticism
Please sign up for presentations here:
http://skepticamp.org/events/3-skepticamp-phoenix-2009
Topics I would like to hear about
What is a skeptic / skepticism?
Positive Contributions of Skepticism to the World / Society
Are Skeptics Born or Made? / The Skeptical Temperament
Skeptical Free Will & Determinism
Consciousness
Skeptical Evangelism
Therapeutic Skepticism
Is Myers-Briggs Scientific?
Planners
Jim Lippard - skepticamp@discord.org, John Lynch
Volunteers
add yourself...
David Jackemeyer
Participants (aka Campers)
| Name |
Email |
Contribution
(speaker, organizer, etc)
|
T-shirt size |
| Chris Conrey |
my last name at my full name dot com |
Loud noises |
XXL |
| John Lynch |
john dot lynch at asu dot edu |
Speaker |
XL |
| Evo Terra |
this is evo at google's mail service |
Speaker, rabble rouser, flamingo |
L
|
| Brian Shaler |
my full name, no dots or anything, at google's mail service |
Laughing stock, rabble rousest |
S
|
| Tony Barnhart |
anthony dot barnhart at asu dot edu |
Speaker |
XL |
|
David Jackemeyer
|
olehenry1 at yahoo's |
Volunteer, speaker, etc. |
M |
Task List
(please -cross out- when it's done)
Tech
Wifi (In room at ASU)
Projector (In room as ASU).
Projection Screen (In room at ASU)
White Boards (In room at ASU)
Camcorder (Devin Rankin to provide).
Tripod (Jim Lippard to provide).
Non-tech
Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.
Please use the tag (skepticamp-phoenix) for content related to this event
Who's blogging?
Evo Terra - Fun Anymore
Tony Barnhart - Magic Tony's Grand Delusions
