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  Philosophical anthropology—the basic science of who we are as humans—is crucial bridge the divide between the social sciences with philosophy and theology that characterizes most modern universities. In this talk, I will discuss how studying personalist philosophy led me to adopt a narrative approach to the study of the human person in my research […]

    Teresa M. Bejan is Associate Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford, she taught at the University of Toronto and as a Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. with distinction from Yale […]

  William B. Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis […]

Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Sponsored by : Cru, CCS, Arete Initiative, and Healthy Duke

Adrian Bejan (Duke) The usual way to discuss human evolution is by proceeding from the general (nature, biological and non-) to the particular (humans). Because ‘the usual’ has run its course, in this lecture I begin with us, and everything that lives around and inside of us. I will show that if we question our […]

Candace Vogler (Univ of Chicago)