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Religion and Science Lecture SeriesPREVIOUS PROGRAMS Fall 2000 EVOLUTION AND GOD “Finding Darwin’s God” Professor Kenneth R. Miller, Brown University “God After Darwin” Professor John F. Haught, Georgetown University About the speakers: Kenneth R. Miller, a recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, is a cell biologist, a professor of biology at Brown University, and the co-author of widely used high school and college biology textbooks. Professor Miller’s many articles have appeared in scientific journals and magazines including Nature, Scientific American, Cell, and Discover. He is the author of Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (1999). John F. Haught is the Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Georgetown University. His numerous books include The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (1993), What is Religion: An Introduction (1990), Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose (2000) as well as God after Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (1999).
Spring 2001 STATUS OF THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION: DIALOGUE “Dialogue And Research”
“Faith and Reason in the Natural Sciences: A Hermeneutic of John Paul II’s Fides Et Ratio”
About the speakers: Charles L. Harper is the Executive Director and Senior Vice President of the John Templeton Foundation and formerly a research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of Harvard University. The author of more than fifty research contributions in scientific publications including Nature, Science, The Astrophysical Journal, The Journal of Physics, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Dr. Harper was a National Research Council fellow at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston from 1988-1991 and appointed associate of the Harvard College Observatory in 1995. Patrick A. Heelan, S.J. is the William Gaston Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University and author of over one hundred articles in both science and philosophy. Holding Ph.D.’s in both philosophy and geophysics, Fr. Heelan is the author of several books including Quantum Mechanics and Objectivity, Space-Perception and the Philosophy of Science, and the forthcoming The Scope of Hermeneutics in Natural Science. Fr. Heelan has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin and the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Fall 2001 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN? “Stem Cell Research: Biology and Morality”
“Therapeutic Cloning: From Contradiction to Consequences”
About the speakers: Albert S. Moraczewski, O.P. holds postgraduate degrees in Pharmacology, Theology, Philosophy, as well as Medicine. He was a Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Chicago and of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine. In addition to numerous articles in scientific and theological journals, Fr. Albert has edited two books on genetics: Genetic Counseling, The Church and the Law (1980) and Genetic Medicine and Engineering: Ethical and Social Dimensions (1983). Fr. Moraczewski is currently President Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar in residence at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, having served as its full-time president (1974-1979). In 1989 the Dominican Order awarded him its highest academic honor: Sacrae Theologiae Magiser. Marilyn E. Coors, Ph.D. has earned degrees in Science Education, Genetics, Ethics and Religion and holds a Ph.D. in Bioethics from Denver University. In addition to numerous articles on the topic of ethics and genetics, Dr. Coors is the author of the book The Matrix: An Ethical Framework for Genetic Medicine. She has held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethics and Human Medical Genetics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center from 1998 to the present, where she is also Assistant Professor in the Program in Healthcare Ethics, Humanities, and Law.
Spring 2002 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE HUMAN? “Living with the Grail: What Should We Do with the Human Genome Map Now that We’ve Got It?”
About the speaker: Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University of Medicine where his research interests and publications have focused on the conceptual and ethical issues raised by new advances in human genetics and biotechnology. He serves on National Ethics Committee of the March of Dimes, the U.S. Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the DNA Advisory Board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Genome Research Review Committee of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the editorial boards of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Human Gene Therapy, the American Journal of Medical Genetics, and Community Genetics.
Fall 2002 A THING THAT THINKS (?) “Robots as Autonomous Beings with Perception, Cognition, and Action”
About the speakers: Manuela M. Velosa, Ph.D, is Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, where she researches in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Professor Veloso has developed teams of robotic soccer agents that have been RoboCup world champions several times. John Darnton is the best-selling author of “Neanderthal”, “The Experiment” and most recently, “Mind Catcher”. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, reporter, and foreign correspondent, he is currently Cultural News Editor at The New York Times.
Spring 2003
About the speakers: Rev. Stanley L. Jaki, Ph.D. a Distinguished Professor at Seton Hall University, holds doctorates in theology and physics, and has for the past forty years specialized in the history and philosophy of science. Rev. Jaki served as Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and as Fremantle Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. He is honorary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, membre correspondant of the Academie Nationale des Sciences, Belle-Lettres et Arts of Bordeaux, and the recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for 1970. In 1987 Rev.Jaki received the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Science and Religion. Among Rev. Jaki’s over forty books are, The Relevance of Physics; Science and Creation; The Savior of Science, The Physicist as Artist: The Landscapes of Pierre Duhem; Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth; The Limits of a Limitless Science; and most recently, A Mind ‘s Matter: An Intellectual Autobiography. Owen Gingerich is a senior emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Obersvatory and Research Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard University. He is co-author of two successive standard models for the solar atmosphere. In the past three decades Professor Gingerich has become a leading authority on the 17th century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, and the 16th century cosmologist Nicholas Copernicus who proposed the heliocentric theory. Professor Gingerich has given the George Darwin lecture (the most prestigious lecture of the Royal Astronomical Society) and in 1999 gave an Advent sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington. Besides over 500 technical articles and reviews, Professor Gingerich has published two anthologies of his essays, the Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History (Cambridge University Press) and The Eve of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, (American Institute of Physics).
Fall 2003 Will Technology be Our Servant or Our Master? “Technology and Death: Should We Die With, By or Without Machines?”
About the speakers: Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM., M.D., PhD., a Franciscan Friar, holds the Sisters of Charity Chair in Ethics at St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, St. Vincent’s Manhattan, and serves as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY. His research interests include both theoretical and empirical studies of end-of-life decision-making, ethics education, and the ethics of cost containment in medicine. He is the author of a book on spirituality for healthcare professionals, The Healer’s Calling, and is co-editor of Methods in Medical Ethics, published by Georgetown University Press in August, 2001. He began service as editor-in-chief of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics in 2002. His numerous articles have appeared in medical, philosophical, and theological journals and he has lectured widely both in the U.S. and abroad. Freeman Dyson is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University since 1953. He is a distinguished physicist and educator who has studied at Cambridge, Cornell and Princeton where he worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer. He is the author of several books including Disturbing the Universe, Weapons and Hope, Origins of Life, Infinite in All Directions, and The Sun, the Genome and the Internet. This last book offers an interesting reinterpretation of the scientific process, and represents a challenge to use new technologies to close the gap between rich and poor.
Spring 2004 “Rational Mysticism: Can Science and Spirituality be Reconciled?” John Horgan, journalist About the speaker John Horgan is a freelance journalist, author, and former senior writer at Scientific American. He is the author of the best-selling The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Science in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, a work that sparked heated debates within and beyond the scientific community. In his latest work, entitled Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, Horgan explores the profound question of what modern scientific understanding of the brain can explain about religious, spiritual, and mystical experiences. Mr. Horan has written for numerous newspapers and periodicals around the world, including The New York Times, Discover, New Scientist, and London Times. He has received numerous awards for his work including American Psychiatric Association Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Reporting, Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1992 and 1994, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award, and British Mind Book of the Year 2000.
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