News:

Canada’s Humanist of the Year 2008

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Ontario’s Best Lecturer 2008

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Speaking Engagements:

March 13, 2009:

“Problem Solving and Neurotransmitters in the EEA:The Emergence of Reflective Explanation and the Maintenance of Memetic Equilibrium As Proximate Causes of Religious Behaviour”.

4:30pm, Hofstra University NY, New York.

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March 29, 2009:

“We Are All African: Our Greatest Discovery”.

10:30am, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Durham, 45 Cassels Road, Brooklin, Ontario.

March 31, 2009:

Does God Exist?

6:30pm - 9:00 pm, Rm LIB72--Library Lecture Theatre, Ryerson University
350 Victoria St. Toronto, ON

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April 18, 2009:

"The Evolution of Ethics: Past, Present and Future" Debate with Michael Coren presented by Humanist Canada in celebration of Darwin's 200th Birthday.

6:30pm, Innis Town Hall (at University of Toronto at Mississauga campus), 2 Sussex Avenue.

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To book Dr. diCarlo for a speaking engagement, please contact Linda D. Loucks at LA Publicity: ldloucks@yahoo.ca

Course Info:

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Contact information:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology
2000 Simcoe St. N.
Oshawa, ON.
905.721.8668 x2994

Email: cwdicarlo@yahoo.com

Short Biography:

Christopher diCarlo is a Philosopher of Science and Ethics whose interests in cognitive evolution have taken him into the natural and social sciences. His personal research focuses on how and why humans reason, think, and act the way they do. He is interested in how and why the human brain has evolved to its current state and what cross-cultural and cross-species behaviour can provide insight into universally common modes of reasoning. He is also interested in the application of neuroscience (specifically fMRI work), in an effort to better understand psychoneuroendocrine feedback looping in problem solving.

Dr. diCarlo is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology where he teaches Critical Thinking, Bioethics, and other courses. His most recent book (just released by McGraw-Hill Ryerson) is entitled: How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Practical Guide to Thinking Critically.

He is also a past Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard University in the Department of Anthropology and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology where he conducted research for two books he is currently writing called: The Comparative Brain: The Evolution of Human Reasoning and The Evolution of Religion: Why Many Need to Believe in Deities, Demons, and the Unseen.