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Welcome by Roger Bingham - Director of The Science Network
<p><b>Roger Bingham</b> is a scientist in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, and a member of the research faculty at the Center for Brain and Cognition,...
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Darrin McMahon - Florida State University
<p><b>Darrin McMahon</b> is the Ben Weider Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of <i>Enemies of the Enlightenment</i> and...
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Margaret Jacob - UCLA
<p><b>Margaret Jacob</b>, a professor of History at UCLA, is an authority on the scientific roots of the Enlightenment, the origins of Western cosmopolitanism, and the freemasons,...
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Edward Slingerland - University of British Columbia
<p><b>Edward Slingerland</b> is Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. His research includes Warring States Chinese...
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Donald Rutherford - UC San Diego
<p><b>Donald Rutherford</b> is a member of the UCSD Philosophy Department whose main research interests are in the history of modern philosophy. Much of his work has dealt with the...
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Daniel Dennett - Tufts University
<p><b>Daniel C. Dennett</b>, the author of <i>Breaking the Spell; Freedom Evolves</i>; and <i>Darwin's Dangerous Idea</i>, is University Professor and Austin...
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David Sloan Wilson - Binghamton University
<p><b>David Sloan Wilson</b>, Professor in the Biology and Anthropology Departments at Binghamton University, is director of EvoS, a unique campus-wide evolutionary studies program....
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Jonathan Haidt - University of Virginia
<p><b>Jonathan Haidt</b>, an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, studies the emotional basis of moral judgment and political ideology. He received his...
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Michael Shermer - Publisher, Skeptic Magazine
<p><b>Michael Shermer</b>, a former college professor, is the founding publisher and Editor-in-Chief of <i>Skeptic</i> magazine. A monthly columnist for...
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Panel - Daniel Dennett, David Sloan Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Shermer
Date: October 31, 2007 Speakers: Daniel Dennett, David Sloan Wilson, Jonathan Haidt, Michael Shermer Run Time: 44 minutes
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Gregory Clark - UC Davis
<p><b>Gregory Clark</b> chairs the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He is author of the recent book <i>A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic...
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Deirdre McCloskey - University of Illinois at Chicago
<p><b>Deirdre McCloskey</b> teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written fourteen books on economic theory, history, philosophy, rhetoric, and ethics. She taught...
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Stuart Kauffman - University of Calgary
<p><b>Stuart Kauffman</b> has had an unusually varied career in biological science, with forays into quantum gravity and economics. His interests are theoretical biology, origin of...
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Sean Carroll - California Institute of Technology
<p><b>Sean Carroll</b> is a Senior Research Associate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He previously worked at MIT, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of...
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David Albert - Columbia University
<p><b>David Albert</b> is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the M.A. Program in the Philosophical Foundations of Physics at Columbia University. He studies in particular the...
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Welcome by Roger Bingham - Director of The Science Network
<p><b>Roger Bingham</b> is a scientist in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, and a member of the research faculty at the Center for Brain and Cognition,...
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Peter Atkins - University of Oxford
<p><b>Peter Atkins</b> is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College. He is the author of nearly 60 books, including <i>Galileo's Finger: The...
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Sir Harold Kroto - Nobel Laureate
<p><b>Sir Harold Kroto</b>, Chairman of the Board of the Vega Science Trust, a UK educational charity that produces science programs for television, in 1996 shared the Nobel Prize in...
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Scott Atran - National Center for Scientific Research, Paris, France
<p><b>Scott Atran</b>, Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, has experimented extensively on the ways scientists and ordinary people...
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Lee Silver - Princeton University
<p><b>Lee Silver</b> is Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy at Princeton University. He received a doctorate in biophysics from Harvard University and trained at Cold...
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Greg Epstein - Harvard University
<p><b>Greg M. Epstein</b> serves as the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University, and sits on the executive committee of the 38-member interfaith corps of Harvard Chaplains. Ordained...
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Ronald de Sousa - University of Toronto
<p><b>Ronald de Sousa</b> is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was educated in Switzerland, Oxford, UK, and Princeton, USA. He is the author of...
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Patricia Churchland - UC San Diego
<p><b>Patricia Churchland</b>, who chairs the University of California, San Diego Philosophy Department, focuses also on neuroethics and attempts to understand choice, responsibility...
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - Author, Betraying Spinoza
<p><b>Rebecca Newberger Goldstein</b> is a philosopher and novelist. She is the author of eight books, including the novels <i>The Mind-Body Problem</i> and...
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John Allen Paulos - Temple University
<p><b>John Allen Paulos</b>, professor of mathematics at Temple University, Philadelphia, is an author, public speaker, and columnist for ABCNews and the <i>Guardian</i>....
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V.S. Ramachandran - UC San Diego
<p><b>VS Ramachandran</b>, Director for the Center of Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at the University of California,...
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Adam Kolber - University of San Diego
<p><b>Adam Kolber</b> is a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values and a law professor at the University of San Diego. He writes about the legal and ethical...
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Jonathan Gottschall - Washington & Jefferson College
<p><b>Jonathan Gottschall</b> teaches English at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA. His work seeks to bridge the humanities-sciences divide. He is co-editor of...
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David Brin - Astronomer, science fiction author
<p><b>David Brin</b>'s bestselling novels, such as <i>Earth</i> and <i>Kiln People</i>, have been translated into more than 20 languages. <i>The...
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Robert Winter - UCLA
<p><b>Robert Winter</b>, scholar, pianist, and media author, holds the Presidential Chair in Music and Interactive Arts at UCLA. His very non-linear career has encompassed Beethoven...
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Welcome by Roger Bingham - Director of The Science Network
<p><b>Roger Bingham</b> is a scientist in the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, and a member of the research faculty at the Center for Brain and Cognition,...
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Sam Harris - Author, The End of Faith
<p><b>Sam Harris</b> has authored the <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, <i>The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason</i>, which won the...
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Daniel Smail - Harvard University (with Patricia Churchland on Aristotle)
<p><b>Daniel Lord Smail</b> has an abiding passion: to bring time depth back into the ways in which we teach and research history in this country. He is a history professor at...
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Jeff Hawkins - Numenta
<p><b>Jeff Hawkins</b> is the founder of two computer companies, Palm and Handspring, and the designer of many computing products including the PalmPilot and Treo Smartphone. He also...
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PZ Myers (overview from audience) - University of Minnesota
<p><b>PZ Myers</b> is a developmental biologist at the University of Minnesota, Morris who focuses on the interplay of developmental and evolutionary processes. He is a columnist for...
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