Professor Bernie Rollin
About the Speaker: Rollin's scholarly interests include both traditional philosophy and applied philosophy. In addition to numerous articles in the history of philosophy, philosophy of language, ethics and bioethics, he is the author of Natural and Conventional Meaning (1976), Animal Rights and Human Morality (1981, 1993 & 2006) and The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change (1988 &1998) Farm Animal Welfare (1995) The Frankenstein Syndrome (1995) and Science and Ethics (2006). He has edited a two volume The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989 & 1995). He is one of the leading scholars in animal rights and animal consciousness and has lectured over 1000 times all over the world. He is a weight-lifter, horseman, and motorcyclist.
"Science, Society, and the
Value of Good Philosophy"
Friday, October 28, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. in the Business Auditorium
Brief Abstract:
I have
always been skeptical about futurology, but even more so since the CIA
satellite cameras, capable of reading a cigarette pack in a Russian
soldier’s blouse, failed totally to detect the imminent collapse of the
Soviet Union. One would thus be stupid to essay any prophecy in the
Nostradamus sense of the word.
There is, however, a not-quite-so sexy view of prophecy
which is sometimes neglected, though it was in fact the primary modality
for the Old Testament prophets. This is the prophet ......read
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