RACIALIZED FORGIVENESS
Myisha Cherry
February 16, 2021
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Virtual Webinar
Please register in advance at: https://tinyurl.com/HSClecture
No charge to attend
Everyone is welcome from campus and community
Dr. Myisha Cherry describes herself as a philosopher striving to provide value and provoke thought.
The Metaphysical Problem in Race Theory
Quayshawn Spencer
Quayshawn Spencer’s 4 p.m. lecture is available for live stream on demand at www.callutheran.edu/live.
We regret that the 11 a.m. lecture is unavailable due to technical failure during recording.
We invite you to visit Quayshawn Spencer’s website for more information on his topics at https://sites.google.com/site/qnjspencer/
Friday, February 14, 2020
Pre-lecture Discussion: “What is Race and Why is the Question Important?”
2:15-3:15 pm, Overton Hall
Join us for a pre-lecture discussion with Assistant Professor Brian J.
Humanizing Machines: AI, Ethics and the Future
Shannon Vallor
- Looking in the AI Mirror
- How to Cultivate Humane Machines (and People)
Probing Future Foods
Paul B. Thompson
- Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems
- Social Amplification of Risk: The Ethical Questions
Corporate Realities and Democratic Ideals
Philip Pettit
- Holding Corporate Bodies Responsible
- Granting Corporate Bodies Rights
Technology and the Future
Nick Bostrom
- “Technology Strategy and Existential Risks”
- “Superintelligence”
God’s Knowledge and Ours
Linda Zagzebski
- “Omnisubjectivity: the Subjectivity of God”
- “Knowing God: a Defense of Religious Authority”
Between ‘Intelligent Design’ and the New Atheism: Science and Religion at the Crossroads
Philip Clayton
- “Beyond the Religion Wars: From Reduction to Reenchantment”
- “The New Sciences of Emergent Complexity: Evolving Religion in an Evolving World”
From The Matrix to the Singularity
David Chalmers
- “The Matrix as Metaphysics”
- “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis”
Biotechnology: Friend or Foe?
Gregory Pence
- “Stem Cells, Little Persons, and Scientific Research”
- “Organic or Genetically Modified Food – Which Is Safer?”
Why God Won’t Go Away
Andrew Newburg
- “Why God Won’t Go Away”
- “Why We Believe What We Believe”
Privacy, Technology and Identity
David Holtzman
- “Privacy Lost: How Technology Affects Privacy”
- “Online Identities: @ttribution, not Retribution”
Contaminated Without Consent
Sandra Steingraber
- “Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food and Water Violate Human Rights”
- “The Precautionary Principle: Science or anti-Science?”
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
- “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality”
The Extended Mind
Rupert Sheldrake
- “The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence”
- “Science and Spirituality: My Own Journey of Exploration”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- “The Creative Person and the Creative Context”
- “Flow and the Quality of Life”
Whatever Happened to the Soul?
Nancey Murphy
Nancey Murphy
Stretching Science
David Baltimore
Did Life Come From Mars?
Paul Davies
Chaos Meets Narrative
Katherine Hayles
- “Narratives of Artificial Life”
- “Chaotic Genius: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia“
Rethinking the Methods of the Human Sciences
Stephen Toulmin
- “Alternative Visions of Theory in the Human Sciences”
- “Economic and Social Practice in its Cultural Situation”
Medical Ethics and Health Care Policies
Arthur Caplan
- “Making Babies: Ethical Issues Raised by New Reproductive Technologies”
- “Sinners, Saints and Health Care: What role should personal responsibility play in the rationing of health care resources?”
Genetics and Social Policies
Daniel J. Kevles
- “The Human Genome Project”
- “Genetics, Race and IQ”
Cognition, Cognitive Science and Consciousness
John Searle
- “Cognition and Cognitive Science”
- “The Problem of Consciousness”
Beyond the Blue Horizon
E.C. Krupp
- “Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science”
- “Climbing the Cosmic Mountain”
The Path to Ecological Restoration
Stephanie Mills
- “Healing a Damaged Land”
- “Bioregionalism: Reinstating a Culture of Place”
The Reenchantment of Science
David Ray Griffin
- “Modern Science and Disenchantment”
- “Postmodern Science and Reenchantment”
Humor and Humors
Jonathan Miller
- “Humor and Comedy”
- “The Afterlife of Plays”
Beyond Consciousness: The Magic of Native American Myths
Michelle Taigue
- “Unveiling the Invisible”
- “Returning to Beginnings”
- “Vehicles of Wisdom”
- “Recovery of the Sacred”
Jacob Needleman
- “The Seeker in A Pathless Land”
- “The Scientist as Seeker”
- “The Seeker in Ourselves”
The Day the Universe Changed
James Burke
- “Mechanisms of Change: Do Lemons Whistle”
- “Goodbye, Descartes: Information and Change”
Exploring the Human Potential
Jean Houston
- “The Possible Human”
- “Journey of Transformation — The Odyssey”
- “The New Sacred Psychology”
William Kaufmann
- “Black Holes and Exploding Galaxies”
- “The Physics of the Early Universe”
- “The Origin and Complexity of the Universe”