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How Religion Matters in an Age of Extinction

Kaplan 365

In person (Kaplan 365) or on Zoom Could knowledge about biodiversity loss be advanced through inquiry into the study of religion? Emerging from a lab that integrates humanities, arts, and sciences into research on coastal change in Virginia, this talk shows how different conceptions of religion and spirituality open unique lines of inquiry into human dimensions of environmental change. RSVP here for the in-person event. Register here for the Zoom link to the event.   Willis Jenkins is John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Jenkins writes along...

HPASS: “Against Self-Location” – Emily Adlam, Chapman University

Dodd 247 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

November 20, 2024 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM Dodd Hall 247 & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 in Dodd Hall 247 for a talk by Emily Adlam, Chapman University, as part of the History, Philosophy, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series.   Against Self-Location   In this talk, I will make a distinction between pure self-locating credences and superficially self-locating credences, and then argue that there is never any rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences. I will first argue that from a practical point of view, pure self-locating credences simply encode our...