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Beyond Belief 2008

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Beyond Belief 2008 -
Candles in the Dark

Beyond Belief is an annual symposium which brings together a group of scientists and philosophers to explore questions and answers about human nature, science, religion, philosophy, and society.

"Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark DVDs will be available soon.

Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy. This year, we asked participants to propose a Candle -- a potential solution to a problem that they have identified in their area of expertise or informed passion.

In The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan wrote:
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

At The Science Network, we embrace scientific meliorism (last year's meeting, after all, was entitled Enlightenment 2.0). We support science in its search for solutions. Can we better understand the neural underpinnings of human nature, our decision-making processes, the dynamics of trust and fear and human flourishing?

This U.S. election year, when science and reason in the nation's deliberations have been repeatedly challenged as irrelevant or elitist, and science seems to be estranged from society, Sagan's words sound prophetic -- an alarm call. Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is our response." http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-candles-in-the-dark

1 Roger Bingham - 05:54 -
2 Anthony Grayling - 15:17 -
3 Sonja Lyubomirsky - 16:25 -
4 Owen Flanagan - 13:36 -
5 Guven Guzeldere - 11:50 -
6 George Koob - 10:07 -
7 Panel Human Flourishing Eudaimonics - 22:23 -
8 Roger Bingham - 01:07 -
9 Naomi Oreskes - 15:47 -
10 Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum - 23:43 -
11 Tony Haymet - 20:29 -
12 This is Your Brain on Politics - 27:11 -
13 Roger Bingham - 03:19 -
14 Peter Turchin - 15:47 -
15 Sally Satel - 20:42 -
16 V.S. Ramachandran - 24:31 -
17 Panel Human Flourishing Continued - 17:58 -
18 Roger Bingham - 02:40 -
19 Jonathan Haidt - 24:31 -
20 Sam Harris - 21:04 -
21 Jonathan Glover - 28:17 -
22 Marco Iacoboni - 22:06 -
23 Patricia Churchland - 16:17 -
24 Panel This is Your Brain on Morality - 37:06 -
25 Roger Bingham - 02:11 -
26 Brian Knutson - 15:16 -
27 Paul Zak - 22:27 -
28 Terry Sejnowski - 17:38 -
29 Philip Zimbardo - 21:15 -
30 Panel This is Your Brain on Money - 23:07 -
31 Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - 18:42 -
32 Amanda Pustilnik - 17:04 -
33 Nita Farahany - 14:38 -
34 Adam Kolber - 14:19 -
35 Erin O\'Hara - 16:13 -
36 Panel This is Your Brain on Law - 45:24 -
37 Lawrence Krauss - 23:47 -
38 Beatrice Golomb - 19:04 -
39 Sir Harold Kroto - 21:08 -
40 Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum - 21:43 -
41 Leon Lederman - 26:12 -
42 Michael Shermer - 20:56 -
43 Panel This is Your Brain on Politics continued - 34:09 -
44 Peter Atkins - 24:02 -

Filmed at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies October 3 - 6, 2008. Presented by The Science Network.

If you enjoy this series please seed as long as possible.

Also consider buying the DVDs or watching other programs available at http://thesciencenetwork.org

Beyond Belief 2006 Science, Reason, Religion & Survival
Beyond Belief 2007 Enlightenment 2.0
Beyond Belief 2008 Candles in the Dark

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