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 Recent scientific and technological advances have an ever-increasing impact on our lives, on the way we understand ourselves as human beings and the way we deal with one another.
On the one hand, these developments are often carried out by scientists without the benefit of other sources of wisdom such as philosophy, law, history or anthropology. On the other hand, philosophers often lack the scientific basis to fully understand the significance of current experiments and discoveries in Science.
Ideas have consequences and are capable of shaping the future of humanity in important ways. Looking at these ideas from several different viewpoints we can be equipped to make a more objective evaluation of what is desirable and what is undesirable in the different applications of scientific developments. This thinking is critical to the democratic political process as well as, in a more immediate way, to moral choices that people have to make in their professional work.
The International Interdisciplinary Seminars aim to bring together students from science, philosophy, law and other disciplines, to study key issues of current interest. One example is the whole issue of brain, identity and personhood.
The general topic for the 2007 seminar is “Evolution, Randomness and Intelligence in Nature”. Of immediate interest to students of scientific and philosophical disciplines, the subject is ultimately of interest to everyone, since the proponents of different approaches are trying to put forward overarching worldviews. The seminar includes talks by experts and discussion sessions, as well as papers by some of the students themselves.
Students attending will be from several different European countries, and the seminar programme will include daily visits to places of interest in and around London , sport, cultural and musical get-togethers, and other leisure activities. |
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