Neuroscience
Here's a terrific conference I wish I could have attended:
The ScienceNetwork's sequel to the 2006 Beyond Belief conference, the 2007 Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 was designed "to undertake together an ongoing reconnaissance of Enlightenment ideas in the light of advances in primarily cognitive neurosciences, evolutionary biology, physics etc. though not by any means scanting history, philosophy, law." Heady stuff!
You can watch videos of the presentations online; these links take you directly to the following speakers' presentations:
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- "the Crusade Against Religion"
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Neuroscience
Beyond Belief
Here's a terrific conference I wish I could have attended:
The ScienceNetwork's sequel to the 2006 Beyond Belief conference, the 2007 Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0 was designed "to undertake together an ongoing reconnaissance of Enlightenment ideas in the light of advances in primarily cognitive neurosciences, evolutionary biology, physics etc. though not by any means scanting history, philosophy, law." Heady stuff!
You can watch videos of the presentations online; these links take you directly to the following speakers' presentations:
- Daniel Dennett
- Jonathan Haidt
- David Sloan Wilson
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- V.S. Ramachandran
- Patricia Churchland
and many more! Read brief bios about the speakers and check out the ScienceNetwork's recommended reading list based on the conference theme.
( ... I wish podcasts were available, but a DVD is supposed to be available soon ...)
Thanks to Salman's Science & Religion blog for the link!
For More Information
- The ScienceNetwork
- Beyond Belief 1,"Science, Religion, Reason and Survival." the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA. November 5-7, 2006.
- Beyond Belief 2,"Enlightenment 2.0." the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA. October 31 - November 2, 2007.
- Ncdeu
NCDEU is an annual conference that presents advances in treatment and in clinical trials for a number of psychiatric conditions. It is a relatively small conference with a nicely organized agenda of workshopa, presentations, and poster sessions. The...
- Science Blogging: Translating 'scientese' Into English
Great session today on science blogging: Opening Science to All: Implications of Blogs and Wikis for Social and Scholarly Scientific Communication Bora Zivkovic talked about the types of science blogging, which include ... Translating science into English;...
- "the Crusade Against Religion"
Been meaning to post about the November 2006 article in Wired magazine called The Crusade Against Religion, but time kept slipping away. Plus, I didn't much agree with the article, and now that I've heard a counter argument to the "new atheism",...
- Religion: Spandrel Or Adaptation?
Have you been following the debate over religion & science? Whether you have or not, if you're interested, you should definitely check out Darwin's God, an article in Sunday's New York Times magazine. Robin Marantz Henig summarizes the debate...
- 3rd Annual Department Of Psychology Summer Diversity Research Conference!
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