Upcoming Roundtables
Past Roundtables
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U. MN. Philosophy of Biology Professor Alan C. Love, '95 MIT
December 01, 2023
December 2023, a Diálogos Dinner sponsored by The Octet Collaborative at MIT featured Alan C. Love, Director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. Listen here to his presentation. Click on "more info" and skip ahead in the link to 14:45. You’ll hear why Alan hosts dialogue in Minnesota and why we host dialogue in Cambridge. Alan Love left the flora and fauna of San Diego for the wilds of Cambridge and MIT in 1991. Over a course of four years, as an MIT undergrad ministry Chaplain, I partnered with then-student Alan Love in weekly hospitality-driven leadership and faith discussions among Alan’s many fraternity brothers. It was an early iteration of what was to become a career-defining practice for both of us: hosting discussions of faith and topics of academic and personal interest with plenty to disagree about while simultaneously absorbing all kinds of intellectual, relational, and spiritual lessons.
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Nov 28 2023 our Science and the Origin of Life Roundtable featured Chemistry Professors James Tour, Rice University and Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow
November 28, 2023
“The central conundrum about the origin of life - that, as an accidental event, it seems so very improbable - is not one that science has yet resolved. Claiming credit prematurely - claiming, in effect, that current science holds all the answers - may stunt the growth of the new ideas that a resolution may require.” -Fitness of the Cosmos for Life, Cambridge University Press, 2007, from the Forward: The improbability of Life by George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Research Professor, Harvard University -What did faculty say about this Roundtable? And how are these evenings conducted at The Harvard Faculty Club? Click again to read more!
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In Our Genes or In Our Genesis? Where do you look for clues to the mysteries of life and the universe?
December 08, 2022
Philosopher and Theologian William Lane Craig and Harvard Biology Professor David Haig
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Immortality
November 01, 2022
Boston University Professor of Astronomy Michael Mendillo, retired academic and novelist Larry Constantine , Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Professor Sean McDonough
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Science and the Sacred: Wonders in the Sky above and on the Earth below
June 02, 2022
Wilfred Buck, Science Facilitator, Educator, Cree Elder and Ceremonial Leader; Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre. Wilfred Buck has been asked by Western educational and scientific institutions to bring his Indigenous star knowledge into its work on astronomy. As commercial entities become increasingly active in space exploration, issues relating to the colonization of space are becoming part of the conversation, underscoring the need for other voices such as Buck’s.
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“What are the limits of religious knowledge?”
October 21, 2021
Troy Van Voorhis, Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry, MIT and Alex Byrne, Professor of Philosophy, MIT
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What is Human Nature? Moral Challenges for Genetic Engineering Research Today
June 17, 2021
In conversation with Harvard Genetics Professor George Church.
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God & The Human Mind: How Do Cognitive Science and Neuroscience Interface with Religion?
January 27, 2021
Tania Lombrozo - Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor and Associate Chair of Psychology | Director, Concepts and Cognition Lab | Princeton University...... Jordan Grafman - Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Director, Brain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab | Northwestern University...... Justin Barrett - Editor, Oxford University Press Handbook for Cognitive Science of Religion (forthcoming).
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What do Scientists Around the World Think about Religion and Why does it Matter?
November 12, 2020
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University
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Intellectual Humility
July 22, 2020
2019 Templeton Prize Winner and Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth Marcelo Gleiser and Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT Cullen Buie.