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CFI
Science and Ethics Conference
To Be Held in Toronto
CFI is now accepting registrations for
its
upcoming conference, Science and Ethics: How
Scientific Inquiry
Helps Frame Value Judgments. This event will take
place from May
13th through May 16th at the Courtyard Marriott in
Toronto, Canada.
Registration is $159 for adults and $99 for students.
For
many centuries scientists and philosophers believed
that with the
advance of scientific knowledge, literacy, and
education, humankind
could become liberated from ancient fears and
superstitions so that a
wiser and more humane ethical outlook could develop.
It was believed
that scientific inquiry could be applied to moral
values and modify
them in the light of their causes, rational
consistency, and a regard
for empirical consequences. This viewpoint is
sympathetic to the
classical attempt to apply reason to conduct, and it
is consonant with
the Enlightenment goal of achieving human progress.
Many people were
thus committed to using science to reconstruct the
traditional sources
of morality and to form entrenched
socio-political-economic
institutions.
First,
many religionists hold that without belief in God and
in absolute
religious commandments, no moral standards are
possible (a pre-modern
view). Second, postmodernists, while skeptical of
religious
metaphysics, are likewise skeptical of science,
believing that it
offers its own mythology and that consequently no
progressive
emancipation agenda is possible for humanity. Third,
many scientists
and philosophers have in the past held that science
deals with facts
and that moral values are based on passions and
feelings. Hence, it
was held that science cannot help frame rational moral
judgment.
This
conference will challenge these assumptions and bring
to the fore a
renewed challenge to integrate the sciences and ethics
as disciplines.
Speakers
include Susan Jacoby, Vern Bullough, I. Louis
Horowitz, John Novak, Owen Flanagan,
Paul Kurtz, Barry Beyerstein, Bernard Patten, David B.
Resnik, Christopher W. DiCarlo, Bill Rottschaefer,
Sanal Edamaruku,
Donald B. Calne, Wallace Sampson, Oliver Curry,
Jillian Scott
McIntosh, and James Alcock.
For more information,
see
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/conference-2004.html.
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Grants Available
for Upcoming CFI Conference
CFI - On Campus
is pleased to announce that it will make
available additional grants of $350 each for students
who wish to attend the
Center for Inquiry's upcoming conference in Toronto
entitled, Science
and Ethics: How Scientific Inquiry Helps Frame Value
Judgments being
held May 13th through the 16th. The grants are
intended to help defray
the costs of attending the conference, such as travel
expenses,
registration and hotel
accommodations.
Conference grants will be awarded
to current
CFI - On
Campus
student members, and preference will be given to those
who would be
unable to attend the conference without financial
assistance from
CFI - On
Campus.
Students wishing to apply for a
CFI - On
Campus conference
grant should send an
e-mail with the following information to DJ Grothe at
djgrothe@centerforinquiry.net:
Phone Number E-mail address College/University Attending
A short (250 words or less)
narrative about
why you feel you should receive this
scholarship.
If someone you know
might be interested in applying for this
grant, please send this message to them using the
Tell-A-Friend link at the bottom of this
e-mail!
For more information on the Toronto
conference,
click
here.
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CFI - On
Campus is Hiring
CFI - On Campus's professional staff is in the
process of
expanding again, so please help us spread the word.
You can see a
description of the new position of "Campus
Organizer" that we're
seeking to fill at the jobs section of
our web site. Salary
and benefits are
competitive, and the job provides intellectually
stimulating work with
opportunities for travel, writing, and media
appearances.
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