Can human minds be manufactured? What is the meaning of consciousness, and how might neuroscientists resolve the mysteries of mind and its implications for decision making? Please join us for a conversation with two eminent Stanford neuroscientists, Prof. William Newsome (Vincent V.C. Woo Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute) and Prof. William Hurlbut, MD (Stanford Medical School) on these questions.
The Collegium Institute welcomes you to join us for our annual Fall Magi Project Event. The Magi Project for Science & Theology hosts and delivers courses, talks, seminars and other outreach activities in science and faith, helping people to think about their understanding of the physical Universe and their relationship with God, and how these ideas fit together in a complementary way.
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Prof. William Newsome is the Harman Family Provostial Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as Director of the Neurosciences Institute at Stanford, and a leading investigator in systems and cognitive neuroscience. His research on the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and decision making have garnered numerous awards, including the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Spencer Award, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize of Tel Aviv University, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, and the Champalimaud Vision Award.
Prof. William Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. He is the author of numerous publications on science and ethics including the co-edited volume Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (2002, Oxford), and “Science, Religion and the Human Spirit” in the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (2008). Formerly, he worked for NASA and was a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Working Group at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, and he served for nearly a decade on the President’s Council on Bioethics.
This panel discussion will be moderated by philosopher Janice Tzuling Chik, Ph.D., Inaugural John and Daria Barry Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) and Collegium Institute Senior Scholar. Prof. Chik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University and an Associate Member of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 7:00 PM-8:30 PM ET
Location: Zoom
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