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Professor Marco Nathan was the keynote speaker at the 45th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Graduate Philosophy Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on April 5 - 6, 2024.
His talk was titled, "Is There a Black Box Problem in the Special Sciences?".
Dr. Michael Strevens (NYU) will be giving a talk titled "The Highly Effective Irrationality of Science" on Wednesday, February 28 from 4:15-5:00pm in Burwell Center Room 220. Q&A session will follow and the event is open to the public.
Modern science has done amazing things. What makes it so powerful—and so different from the attempts to understand nature made by the philosophers and monks of old? In part, its power comes from its ability to draw on and amplify elements of human rationality: logical reasoning, the obligation to provide support for every assertion, a commitment to overcome cultural biases and personal interests. But another part of science’s power, this talk will suggest, derives from an unreasonably close-minded narrowness that channels unprecedented energy into observation and experimentation, achieving a level of focus and commitment to the excavation of empirical detail that would otherwise be unattainable.
Professor Marco Nathan has a new book coming out in January titled The Quest for Human Nature: What Philosophy and Science Have Learned. It will be published with Oxford University Press and available in both hard cover and paperback.
Professor Marco Nathan will be giving a talk titled "Reframing the Problem of Consciousness for the Age of Neuroscience" at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Workgroup on September 28, 2023.
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