This Year's Focus:
Science & Values
Application Deadlines
- Dates of School · 25 May 2010 – 28 May 2010
- Application Deadline · 12 November 2009
- Acceptance Notification · 31 January 2010
- First Draft of Paper Due · 5 May 2010
2010 Reading List
- George Ellis:
The Moral Nature of the Universe (with Nancey Murphy)
The Backham Lecture (pdf)
- Keith Ward:
Pascal’s Fire
The Big Questions (especially chapter 8)
Why There Almost Certainly is a God
- David Sloan Wilson:
Unto Others (with Elliott Sober)
Darwin's Cathedral
Evolutionary Religious Studies Website
If you have any questions, contact us at info@vssr.info
2010 Participant Roster:
- Thomas Aechtner
- "Terrorism in the Evolution Wars: Examining the Significance of Values-Discourse in Creationist and Atheist Propaganda"
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- Joseph Bankard
- "Moral Instincts and the Problem with Reductionism: A Critical Exploration into the Work of Marc Hauser"
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- Greg Cootsona
- "Theologians and Scientists Collaborating on Common Values of Beauty and Nature"
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- Ted Davis
- "Altruism and the Administration of the Universe: Kirtley Fletcher Mather on Science and Values"
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- Patrick Giddy
- "Theological Ethics Responding to Darwinism: The Human Capacity for Self-Transcendence as the Key that Turns the Lock and Opens the Door"
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- Brian Green
- "The Value of Teleology: Cognitive Science, Techne, and Wisdom"
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- Richard Khuri
- "Values and Science: A Philosophical Examination of Values Suggested by Recent Developments within the Sciences"
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- James Lancaster
- "The Structures of Biological Science and their Religious Implications"
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- Orlando Poblete Ortuzar
- "The Candle of the Lord: Culverwel on Reason, Faith and First Principles of Knowledge"
- Rachel Pear
- "'And It Was Good?': American Modern Orthodox (Jewish) Engagement with Darwinism"
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- Ignacio Silva
- "In the Name of Science: The Variation of the Value of Science in its Relation with Theology throughout History"
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- Brent Strawn
- "Israelite Zombies?: Intention and Ancient Israel's Rhetoric of Sin"
- Maria Teresa Teixeira
- "Purpose and Value in Whitehead's Ontology of Science"
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- James A. Van Slyke
- "Sexy Theology: The Role of Evolution in the Formation of a Theological Concept of the Value of Sexuality"
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- Mark Winslow
- "Beliefs, Values and Science: Paradigmatic Filters and Perceptions of Evolution"
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- Joseph Wolyniak
- "Used Cars Have Values: Science, Values, and Ethics in Sir Francis Bacons Wake"
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