Leiss Lecture Series

The second in the series of lectures Bill Leiss is doing at SFU comes up this week (Wednesday) at 7pm at HC 7000. Details below...

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Reminder

The remaining two lectures in the Bill Leiss lecture series “Science-Up Close and Personal” are:

Wednesday March 14, 7:00PM-8:00PM HCC 7000

Topic: “Science and Society in the Modern Period”

Abstract:

In the eyes of its early partisans modern science was never just about new technologies that confer power over nature on us. It was also an Enlightenment project that would, it was expected, transform the very nature of human societies. As of now, science is universal but Enlightenment is not. This is, I suggest, by no means a trivial matter.

Wednesday March 21, 7:00PM-8:00PM HCC 7000

Topic: “Science and Ethics: The Choices that confront us”

Abstract:

For most people religion has provided the traditional foundation for personal and social morality. But a variety of factors, including the increasing presence of science in public life, seem to have eroded that foundation. Can a scientific world-view replace religion for this purpose? Can the religious and the scientific world-views be easily reconciled? I suggest there are no easy answers to these questions, and therein lies a whole series of important problems for us, especially where genomics is concerned.

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