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Science as Theology
014 lat
by Jacek Poznański SJ
in Wykłady
Posiedzenie naukowe Komisji PAU „Fides et Ratio”
Nauka jako teologia
Dr hab. Mieszko M. Tałasiewicz
14.04.2011, godz. 15.15,
Mała Aula gmachu PAU przy ul. Sławkowskiej 17, Kraków, Poland
The 15th Kraków Methodological Conference
014 lat
The Emotional Brain:
From the Humanities to Neuroscience and Back Again
19-20 May 2011, Kraków
In the past, emotions and feelings belonged to the domain of the humanities. They were analyzed by philosophers and cherished by poets, while the sciences looked at them with suspicion or simply ignored them.
The 'affective revolution’ of the 1990s changed all this. Neuroscientists have showed us that emotions and feelings can be investigated with empirical methods. Moreover, they proved that the role of emotions is essential both for our perception of the world and for our social institutions. The challenge that we face today may be described as follows. Can both disciplines – the humanities and neuroscience – enrich and educate each other and close the gap between the Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften. Or maybe it is neuroscience that will dominate the reflection over the human emotional life? Or possibly it will stay as it is: two separate disciplines, two separate methods, with no real point of contact?
Source: Conference Website
Martin Rees – 2011 Templenton Prize Winner
014 lat
by Jacek Poznański SJ
in Informacja
Martin J. Rees, a theoretical astrophysicist whose profound insights on the cosmos have provoked vital questions that speak to humanity’s highest hopes and worst fears, has won the 2011 Templeton Prize.
Photo: Cambridge University
Rees, Master of Trinity College, one of Cambridge University’s top academic posts, and former president of the Royal Society, the highest leadership position within British science, has spent decades investigating the implications of the big bang, the nature of black holes, events during the so-called ‘dark age’ of the early universe, and the mysterious explosions from galaxy centers known as gamma ray bursters.
In turn, the “big questions” he raises – such as “How large is physical reality?” – are reshaping crucial philosophical and theological considerations that strike at the core of life, fostering the spiritual progress that the Templeton Prize has long sought to recognize.
Source: Templeton Foundation
Po polsku: Deon.pl
