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Past Lecture Series

Archive of past lectures in the Harold Stoner Clark series, dating back to 1985.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer — Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2025

 

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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"

 

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Myisha Cherry – Racialized Forgiveness

2021
  • "The Moral Psychology of Anger"
  • "Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice"

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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"

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Shannon Vallor – Humanizing Machines: AI, Ethics and the Future

2018
  • "Looking in the AI Mirror"
  • "How to Cultivate Humane Machines (and People)"

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Paul B. Thompson – Probing Future Foods

2017
  • "Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems"
  • "Social Amplification of Risk: The Ethical Questions"

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Philip Pettit – Corporate Realities and Democratic Ideals

2016
  • "Holding Corporate Bodies Responsible"
  • "Granting Corporate Bodies Rights"

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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€

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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€

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David Chalmers – From The Matrix to the Singularity

2010
  • “The Matrix as Metaphysicsâ€
  • “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysisâ€

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Gregory Pence – Biotechnology: Friend or Foe?

2009
  • “Stem Cells, Little Persons, and Scientific Researchâ€
  • “Organic or Genetically Modified Food – Which Is Safer?â€

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Andrew Newburg – Why God Won’t Go Away

2008
  • “Why God Won’t Go Awayâ€
  • “Why We Believe What We Believeâ€

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David Holtzman – Privacy, Technology and Identity

2007
  • “Privacy Lost: How Technology Affects Privacyâ€
  • “Online Identities: @ttribution, not Retributionâ€

 

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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€

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Brian Greene – The Fabric of the Cosmos

2005
  • “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Realityâ€
     

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Rupert Sheldrake – The Extended Mind

2004
  • “The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidenceâ€
  • “Science and Spirituality: My Own Journey of Explorationâ€

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

2003
  • “The Creative Person and the Creative Contextâ€
  • “Flow and the Quality of Lifeâ€

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Nancey Murphy – Whatever Happened to the Soul?

2002

 

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David Baltimore – Stretching Science

2001

 

 

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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€