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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T193000
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URL:https://www.first-unitarian-pgh.org/events/humanist-group-meeting-3/
SUMMARY:Humanist Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Title: TOWARD A MORE DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY\n\nformat: Schweitz
 er Room\, also on Zoom\; send an email to HumanistGroup@first-unitarian-p
 gh.org for the link.\n\nSpeaker: Robert Cavalier\n\nDescription: Just as 
 changes in the earth’s climate affect changes in our weather\, changes i
 n our politics can affect the outcomes of elections and policy decisions. 
 Today\, the disturbing growth of manipulated and fabricated misinformation
  in politics is impacting our political climate. Come to hear how the prin
 ciples and practices of deliberative democracy can address this crisis in 
 the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.\n\nSpeaker: Robert Cavalier i
 s editor of The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives (SUNY\, 2005) an
 d author of Democracy for Beginners (For Beginners LLC\, 2009). He is a me
 mber of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Ethics and Policy and Director of t
 he Program for Deliberative Democracy which won a 2008 Good Government Awa
 rd from the Pittsburgh League of Women Voters. He is currently Teaching Pr
 ofessor\, Emeritus\, Department of Philosophy\, Carnegie Mellon University
 . In July 2024 his op ed "The mixture of church and state is a mistake of 
 biblical proportions” appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
CATEGORIES:Community
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