Three good talks at Duke this Fall:
This year's series explores how advances in neuroscience, genomics, robotics, and artificial intelligence are not only changing our conception of what it is to be human but also creating possibilities for changing 'human nature' in fundamental ways.
Monday, October 29, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center
How are we to think about Human Nature?
Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy
University of Cambridge
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 4:00 pm
Biological Sciences Building, Room 111
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why we Are Who We Are
Frans B.M. de Waal
C.H. Candler, Professor of Psychology, Emory University Director, Living Links Center, Yerkes National Center
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - 5:00 pm
Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center
Human Nature: Bad Biology and Bad Social Theory
Richard Lewontin, Professor of Biology and Zoology
Harvard University
Humanities & Social Science
Life Science
Comments
Looks like a great lineup, wish I was closer! I highly recommend the de Waal lecture to anyone, he came here a couple of years ago and even if you don't completely agree with all of his ideas he is a really entertaining lecturer (watch for the slides with side-by-sides of Bush and chimp postures).
Posted by: Anne-Marie | October 19, 2007 7:58 AM