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Philosophy professor Philip Kitcher will deliver a series of four lectures on secular humanism on March 26, March 28, April 2, and April 4, 2013. Details are below.
Kitcher, who was born in London in 1947, received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American universities and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia.
He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, Wagner's Ring and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kitcher was the first recipient of the Prometheus Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association for work in expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy. He has been President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy of Science.
All lectures will take place at 4:15 pm in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. Each lecture will be followed by a reception in LC 196.
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March 26 |
Beyond Doubt
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March 28 |
Ethics as a Human Project
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April 2 |
Mortality and Meaning Click here to view video |
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April 4 |
Depth and Depravity Click here to view video |
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Keith S. Thomson delivered a series of four Terry lectures, "Jefferson and Darwin: Science and Religion in Troubled Times," in October and December 2012.
In the last 300 years, science and religion, however construed, have diverged so much as almost no longer to be recognizable to each other, according to Thomson, a biologist and an historian of science. In his first two lectures Thomson examined the interplay between science and religion in the 18th and 19th centuries, principally in the lives and thoughts of two familiar, but very different intellectual giants, Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin. (more)
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