[Sci-tech-public] STS Circle, November 5 - John Horgan (Please RSVP)

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Dear all,

First of all, a reminder for those of you who have missed it; today's Circle with John Dixon has been CANCELLED due to the suspension of all operations at Harvard in relation to bad weather conditions. However, we should be back next week with the following:

STS Circle at Harvard
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John Horgan
Stevens Institute of Technology, Science Writing

on
Against Bio-Determinism

Monday, November 5
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street, Room 100F

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Lunch is provided if you RSVP.
Please RSVP to sts<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu>@hks.harvard.edu<mailto:sts at hks.harvard.edu> by 5pm Wednesday, October 31.

Abstract: Over the past few decades, scientists and science journalists have become increasingly fond of biological explanations for human thought and behavior, including such complex phenomena as religion, politics, economics, the arts, sex and mental illness.
Researchers probing human nature focus on evolutionary adaptations, genes and neurochemicals, while discounting the role of education, culture and even reason. Some scientists are even casting doubt on free will, our ability to discern and choose among different
trajectories. Progressives as well as conservatives have embraced these reductionist views of humanity. Veteran science journalist John Horgan will critique the new determinism, arguing that it is based on bad science and may have adverse social, political and medical consequences.


Biography:John Horgan is a science journalist who teaches and directs the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He is a columnist for Scientific American online and BBC Knowledge Magazine and is a frequent contributor to the internet show Bloggingheads.tv. He has also written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC Knowledge, Chronicle of Higher Education, The London Times and other publications around the world. His books include The End of Science (1996), an international bestseller, The Undiscovered Mind (1999), Rational Mysticism (2003) and The End of War (2012). He has lectured at universities throughout the U.S. and Europe and has been interviewed on Charlie Rose, the Lehrer News Hour, National Public Radio, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News and other media outlets. He graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1983.




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