Past Lecture Series
Archive of past lectures in the Harold Stoner Clark series, dating back to 1985.
Robin Wall Kimmerer — Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
2025
Sean A. Valles — The Ethical and Public Health Implications of Mass Incarceration and Housing (In)Security
2023
- "Rethinking Prisons, Policing, and Public Health after Fifty Years of Mass Incarceration"
- "Pandemic-Era Eviction Bans Were a Step Toward Recognizing Homes as a Basic Health Need"

Myisha Cherry – Racialized Forgiveness
2021
- "The Moral Psychology of Anger"
- "Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice"

Quayshawn Spencer – The Metaphysical Problem in Race Theory
2020
- "A When Population Genetics Meets the Metaphysics of Race"
- "A Radical Solution to the Race Problem"

Shannon Vallor – Humanizing Machines: AI, Ethics and the Future
2018
- "Looking in the AI Mirror"
- "How to Cultivate Humane Machines (and People)"

Paul B. Thompson – Probing Future Foods
2017
- "Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems"
- "Social Amplification of Risk: The Ethical Questions"

Philip Pettit – Corporate Realities and Democratic Ideals
2016
- "Holding Corporate Bodies Responsible"
- "Granting Corporate Bodies Rights"

Nick Bostrom – Technology and the Future
2015
- “Technology Strategy and Existential Risksâ€
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Linda Zagzebski – God’s Knowledge and Ours
2014
- “Omnisubjectivity: the Subjectivity of Godâ€
- “Knowing God: a Defense of Religious Authorityâ€

Philip Clayton – Between ‘Intelligent Design’ and the New Atheism: Science and Religion at the Crossroads
2013
- “Beyond the Religion Wars: From Reduction to Reenchantmentâ€
- “The New Sciences of Emergent Complexity: Evolving Religion in an Evolving Worldâ€

David Chalmers – From The Matrix to the Singularity
2010
- “The Matrix as Metaphysicsâ€
- “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysisâ€

Gregory Pence – Biotechnology: Friend or Foe?
2009
- “Stem Cells, Little Persons, and Scientific Researchâ€
- “Organic or Genetically Modified Food – Which Is Safer?â€

Andrew Newburg – Why God Won’t Go Away
2008
- “Why God Won’t Go Awayâ€
- “Why We Believe What We Believeâ€

David Holtzman – Privacy, Technology and Identity
2007
- “Privacy Lost: How Technology Affects Privacyâ€
- “Online Identities: @ttribution, not Retributionâ€

Sandra Steingraber – Contaminated Without Consent
2006
- “Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food and Water Violate Human Rightsâ€
- “The Precautionary Principle: Science or anti-Science?â€

Brian Greene – The Fabric of the Cosmos
2005
- “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Realityâ€

Rupert Sheldrake – The Extended Mind
2004
- “The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidenceâ€
- “Science and Spirituality: My Own Journey of Explorationâ€

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
2003
- “The Creative Person and the Creative Contextâ€
- “Flow and the Quality of Lifeâ€

Nancey Murphy – Whatever Happened to the Soul?
2002

David Baltimore – Stretching Science
2001

Paul Davies – Did Life Come From Mars?
2000
Katherine Hayles – Chaos Meets Narrative
1998
- “Narratives of Artificial Lifeâ€
- “Chaotic Genius: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia“
Stephen Toulmin – Rethinking the Methods of the Human Sciences
1997
- “Alternative Visions of Theory in the Human Sciencesâ€
- “Economic and Social Practice in its Cultural Situationâ€
Arthur Caplan – Medical Ethics and Health Care Policies
1996
- “Making Babies: Ethical Issues Raised by New Reproductive Technologiesâ€
- “Sinners, Saints and Health Care: What role should personal responsibility play in
the rationing of health care resources?â€
Daniel J. Kevles – Genetics and Social Policies
1995
- “The Human Genome Projectâ€
- “Genetics, Race and IQâ€
John Searle – Cognition, Cognitive Science and Consciousness
1994
- “Cognition and Cognitive Scienceâ€
- “The Problem of Consciousnessâ€
E.C. Krupp – Beyond the Blue Horizon
1993
- “Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Scienceâ€
- “Climbing the Cosmic Mountainâ€
Stephanie Mills – The Path to Ecological Restoration
1992
- “Healing a Damaged Landâ€
- “Bioregionalism: Reinstating a Culture of Placeâ€
David Ray Griffin – The Reenchantment of Science
1991
- “Modern Science and Disenchantmentâ€
- “Postmodern Science and Reenchantmentâ€
Jonathan Miller – Humor and Humors
1990
- “Humor and Comedyâ€
- “The Afterlife of Playsâ€
Michelle Taigue – Beyond Consciousness: The Magic of Native American Myths
1989
- “Unveiling the Invisibleâ€
- “Returning to Beginningsâ€
- “Vehicles of Wisdomâ€
- “Recovery of the Sacredâ€
Jacob Needleman
- “The Seeker in A Pathless Landâ€
- “The Scientist as Seekerâ€
- “The Seeker in Ourselvesâ€
James Burke – The Day the Universe Changed
1987
- “Mechanisms of Change: Do Lemons Whistleâ€
- “Goodbye, Descartes: Information and Changeâ€
Jean Houston – Exploring the Human Potential
- “The Possible Humanâ€
- “Journey of Transformation — The Odysseyâ€
- “The New Sacred Psychologyâ€
William Kaufmann
- “Black Holes and Exploding Galaxiesâ€
- “The Physics of the Early Universe"
- “The Origin and Complexity of the Universeâ€

