The Humanist Association of Connecticut – A community for humanists since 1989

Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good of humanity.
Humanism and Its Aspirations

Upcoming Events

The Affordable Housing Crisis in Connecticut: A Conversation with Liam Brennan

Monday, August 19, 2024, 6:30PM

Join the Humanist Association of CT for a frank and provocative discussion about the affordable housing crisis in Connecticut with attorney and housing advocate Liam Brennan, Esq.

Attorney Brennan was a founding member of the Room For All Coalition, which advocates for solutions to the affordable housing crisis in New Haven. In 2023 he ran for mayor of New Haven on a platform centered around housing justice and zoning reform, and he recently became the director of New Haven’s Livable City Initiative, the municipal department responsible for housing code inspection and enforcement, and combating blight. A graduate of Yale Law School and former federal prosecutor, Brennan has also served as the Inspector General for Hartford’s Civilian Police Review Board and as the Executive Director of the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center.

We usually start with half an hour of coffee and conversation at 6:30 PM, followed by the main program after brief announcements at 7:00 PM

USNH, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden CT

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Board Meeting

Sunday, August 25, 2024, 7:00PM

All members of the Humanist Association of Connecticut are welcome to attend. If you have something to bring to the board or wish …

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Northern Social Dinner

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, 7:00PM

We’ll be meeting again in Wallingford at Pacific Buffet & Grill (https://pacificbuffetandgrill.com/) (Buffet Prices:…

Pacific Buffet & Grill, 20 Ives Rd # 301C, Wallingford CT

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Social Dinner

Monday, September 2, 2024, 7:00PM

Join us for our monthly Social Dinner, and discuss a wide range of topics with like-minded people. (We’re holding these…

It's Thai Time Restaurant, 181 Orange St, New Haven CT

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Humanist Explorations

Saturday, September 7, 2024, 2:30PM

This is our monthly discussion meeting, held at 2:30 PM on the first Saturday of each month.
We have returned to holding these…

USNH, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden CT

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Book Discussions

"The Constitution of Knowledge" by Jonathan Rauch

Saturday, August 24, 2024, 2:30PM

Our book for August is The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by journalist Jonathan Rauch. Please note that we are meeting on the 4th rather than 3rd Saturday.

From Amazon: Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In this path-breaking book, Jonathan Rauch reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the ‘Constitution of Knowledge’, our social system for turning disagreement into truth.

By explicating the Constitution of Knowledge and probing the war on reality, Rauch arms defenders of truth with a clearer understanding of what they must protect, why they must do, and how they can do it.

“It’s a great book, truly important in the pantheon of defenses of free speech, free thought, and the commitment to truth, the perfect counter to post-truth claims on the left and populist truth claims on the right. Destined to be a classic, in the tradition of John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty.” – Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine

Wilson Branch Library, 303 Washington Ave, New Haven CT

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