Last month, The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a series of articles discussing “what science can and cannot tell us about free will.”
Posts Tagged ‘science’
March 15th, 2012
Syposium on Derrida and religion
posted by Charles Gelman“Of Miracles and Machines: A Symposium on Derrida and Religion” will take place Thursday, March 22, at Fordham University, New York, NY.
October 11th, 2011
The Feynman Series: scientific…and spiritual (?)
posted by Amanda KaplanThis past February, the seven-part video series honoring Carl Sagan and his contributions to science was released, attracting the attention of scientists, spiritualists, and curious minds across the world. Now, Reid Gower, the maker of The Sagan Series, “has released a supplement…called The Feynman Series, featuring everyone’s favorite bongo-playing physicist,” Richard Feynman.
September 29th, 2011
The big bang
posted by Jonathan VanAntwerpenPeter Manseau reviews Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.
September 14th, 2011
Nothing is ever lost: An interview with Robert Bellah
posted by Nathan Schneider
Both an influential scholar and a public intellectual, Robert Bellah is one of the foremost sociologists of his generation. His books and articles have set in motion lasting conversations about the role of religion in public life, both in the United States and around the world. Since retiring from thirty years of teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Bellah has been at work on his most ambitious book yet, the recently released Religion in Human Evolution (Harvard University Press).
June 17th, 2011
War on drugs may be interfering with Americans’ spiritual awakening
posted by Charles GelmanKevin Drum, of Mother Jones, reports on a study conducted by the esteemed researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that purports to demonstrate the positive, long-term personal and social effects of psilocybin mushrooms, including greater awareness of, and openness to, the spiritual and the sacred.
May 31st, 2011
Continuing controversy over Louisiana’s public school curriculum
posted by Lydia BrawnerThe New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that efforts to repeal the 2008 Science Education Act have failed despite efforts by Louisiana Senator Karen Carter and affidavits from “43 Nobel laureates, faculty members and administrators from Louisiana State University and LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and a host of state and national organizations of scientists and educators.”
April 26th, 2011
Reading the paranormal writing us: An interview with Jeffrey Kripal
posted by Nathan Schneider
Jeffrey Kripal, who chairs the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, is an authority on the mysterious. His books include a wildly controversial study of Ramakrishna’s mysticism; a history of Esalen, an influential spiritual retreat center tucked away in the cliffs of Big Sur; and, now, a probing investigation of several very mysterious thinkers: Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred.
February 7th, 2011
Still in the province of philosophy
posted by John D. BoyAlva Noë criticizes The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.
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