Post by AuntieSocial on Feb 15, 2004 15:39:37 GMT -5
Conference: Science and Ethics (Counsel for Secular Humanism)
I am hoping to attend this conference. I thought others may be interested in this as well.
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News About the Upcoming Conference on Science and Ethics!
How Scientific Inquiry Helps Frame Value Judgments
May 13-16, 2004
The Courtyard Marriott, Toronto CANADA
A message from Dr. Koepsell, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism:
"For many centuries scientists and philosophers believed that with the advance of scientific knowledge, literacy, and education, humankind could become liberated from ancient fears and superstitions so that a wiser and more humane ethical outlook could develop. It was believed that scientific inquiry could be applied to moral values and modify them in the light of their causes, rational consistency, and a regard for empirical consequences. This viewpoint is sympathetic to the classical attempt to apply reason to conduct, and it is consonant with the Enlightenment goal of achieving human progress. Many people were thus committed to using science to reconstruct the traditional sources of morality and to form entrenched socio-political-economic institutions.
First, many religionists hold that without belief in God and in absolute religious commandments, no moral standards are possible (a premodern view). Second, postmodernists, while skeptical of religious metaphysics, are likewise skeptical of science, believing that it offers its own mythology and that consequently no progressive emancipation agenda is possible for humanity. Third, many scientists and philosophers have in the past held that science deals with facts and that moral values are based on passions and feelings. Hence, it was held that science cannot help frame rational moral judgment.
This conference will challenge these assumptions and bring to the fore a renewed challenge to integrate the sciences and ethics as disciplines.
I hope to see some of you there!"
David R. Koepsell, J.D./Ph.D.
Executive Director, Council for Secular Humanism
Click here to read the schedule and/or register online!
How Scientific Inquiry Helps Frame Value Judgments
May 13-16, 2004
The Courtyard Marriott, Toronto CANADA
A message from Dr. Koepsell, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism:
"For many centuries scientists and philosophers believed that with the advance of scientific knowledge, literacy, and education, humankind could become liberated from ancient fears and superstitions so that a wiser and more humane ethical outlook could develop. It was believed that scientific inquiry could be applied to moral values and modify them in the light of their causes, rational consistency, and a regard for empirical consequences. This viewpoint is sympathetic to the classical attempt to apply reason to conduct, and it is consonant with the Enlightenment goal of achieving human progress. Many people were thus committed to using science to reconstruct the traditional sources of morality and to form entrenched socio-political-economic institutions.
First, many religionists hold that without belief in God and in absolute religious commandments, no moral standards are possible (a premodern view). Second, postmodernists, while skeptical of religious metaphysics, are likewise skeptical of science, believing that it offers its own mythology and that consequently no progressive emancipation agenda is possible for humanity. Third, many scientists and philosophers have in the past held that science deals with facts and that moral values are based on passions and feelings. Hence, it was held that science cannot help frame rational moral judgment.
This conference will challenge these assumptions and bring to the fore a renewed challenge to integrate the sciences and ethics as disciplines.
I hope to see some of you there!"
David R. Koepsell, J.D./Ph.D.
Executive Director, Council for Secular Humanism
Click here to read the schedule and/or register online!
I am hoping to attend this conference. I thought others may be interested in this as well.
Calendar has been updated to show this conference
