[Ontario] Massimo Pigliucci: “How is Science Relevant to Philosophy?”

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Starts
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Ends
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

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January 29, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
University of Guelph
Science Complex Atrium

How is philosophy relevant to science?

Sci-Phi, the borderland between science and philosophy, is a highly fecund area of interdisciplinary inquiry, where philosophers and scientists come to approach common problems from different yet mutually enhancing perspectives. It is high time to overcome the psychological divide between what C.P. Snow famously called “the two cultures” and renew the Enlightenment project of one unified quest for reason.

Massimo Pigliucci has a PhD in genetics, a PhD in botany and a PhD in philosophy. He received the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. He is the author of several books, including Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture, Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism and the Nature of Science, and Tales of the Rational: Skeptical Essays about Nature and Science.