Past Lecture Series
Archive of past lectures in the Harold Stoner Clark series, dating back to 1985.
Robin Wall Kimmerer 鈥 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
2025
Sean A. Valles 鈥 The Ethical and Public Health Implications of Mass Incarceration and Housing (In)Security
2023
- "Rethinking Prisons, Policing, and Public Health after Fifty Years of Mass Incarceration"
- "Pandemic-Era Eviction Bans Were a Step Toward Recognizing Homes as a Basic Health Need"

Myisha Cherry 鈥 Racialized Forgiveness
2021
- "The Moral Psychology of Anger"
- "Unmuted: Conversations on Prejudice, Oppression, and Social Justice"

Quayshawn Spencer 鈥 The Metaphysical Problem in Race Theory
2020
- "A When Population Genetics Meets the Metaphysics of Race"
- "A Radical Solution to the Race Problem"

Shannon Vallor 鈥 Humanizing Machines: AI, Ethics and the Future
2018
- "Looking in the AI Mirror"
- "How to Cultivate Humane Machines (and People)"

Paul B. Thompson 鈥 Probing Future Foods
2017
- "Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems"
- "Social Amplification of Risk: The Ethical Questions"

Philip Pettit 鈥 Corporate Realities and Democratic Ideals
2016
- "Holding Corporate Bodies Responsible"
- "Granting Corporate Bodies Rights"

Nick Bostrom 鈥 Technology and the Future
2015
- 鈥淭echnology Strategy and Existential Risks鈥
- 鈥沦耻辫别谤颈苍迟别濒濒颈驳别苍肠别鈥

Linda Zagzebski 鈥 God鈥檚 Knowledge and Ours
2014
- 鈥淥mnisubjectivity: the Subjectivity of God鈥
- 鈥淜nowing God: a Defense of Religious Authority鈥

Philip Clayton 鈥 Between 鈥業ntelligent Design鈥 and the New Atheism: Science and Religion at the Crossroads
2013
- 鈥淏eyond the Religion Wars: From Reduction to Reenchantment鈥
- 鈥淭he New Sciences of Emergent Complexity: Evolving Religion in an Evolving World鈥

David Chalmers 鈥 From The Matrix to the Singularity
2010
- 鈥淭he Matrix as Metaphysics鈥
- 鈥淭he Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis鈥

Gregory Pence 鈥 Biotechnology: Friend or Foe?
2009
- 鈥淪tem Cells, Little Persons, and Scientific Research鈥
- 鈥淥rganic or Genetically Modified Food 鈥 Which Is Safer?鈥

Andrew Newburg 鈥 Why God Won鈥檛 Go Away
2008
- 鈥淲hy God Won鈥檛 Go Away鈥
- 鈥淲hy We Believe What We Believe鈥

David Holtzman 鈥 Privacy, Technology and Identity
2007
- 鈥淧rivacy Lost: How Technology Affects Privacy鈥
- 鈥淥nline Identities: @ttribution, not Retribution鈥

Sandra Steingraber 鈥 Contaminated Without Consent
2006
- 鈥淐ontaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food and Water Violate Human Rights鈥
- 鈥淭he Precautionary Principle: Science or anti-Science?鈥

Brian Greene 鈥 The Fabric of the Cosmos
2005
- 鈥淭he Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality鈥

Rupert Sheldrake 鈥 The Extended Mind
2004
- 鈥淭he Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence鈥
- 鈥淪cience and Spirituality: My Own Journey of Exploration鈥

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
2003
- 鈥淭he Creative Person and the Creative Context鈥
- 鈥淔low and the Quality of Life鈥

Nancey Murphy 鈥 Whatever Happened to the Soul?
2002

David Baltimore 鈥 Stretching Science
2001

Paul Davies 鈥 Did Life Come From Mars?
2000
Katherine Hayles 鈥 Chaos Meets Narrative
1998
- 鈥淣arratives of Artificial Life鈥
- 鈥淐haotic Genius: Tom Stoppard鈥檚 Arcadia鈥
Stephen Toulmin 鈥 Rethinking the Methods of the Human Sciences
1997
- 鈥淎lternative Visions of Theory in the Human Sciences鈥
- 鈥淓conomic and Social Practice in its Cultural Situation鈥
Arthur Caplan 鈥 Medical Ethics and Health Care Policies
1996
- 鈥淢aking Babies: Ethical Issues Raised by New Reproductive Technologies鈥
- 鈥淪inners, Saints and Health Care: What role should personal responsibility play in
the rationing of health care resources?鈥
Daniel J. Kevles 鈥 Genetics and Social Policies
1995
- 鈥淭he Human Genome Project鈥
- 鈥淕enetics, Race and IQ鈥
John Searle 鈥 Cognition, Cognitive Science and Consciousness
1994
- 鈥淐ognition and Cognitive Science鈥
- 鈥淭he Problem of Consciousness鈥
E.C. Krupp 鈥 Beyond the Blue Horizon
1993
- 鈥淎rchaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science鈥
- 鈥淐limbing the Cosmic Mountain鈥
Stephanie Mills 鈥 The Path to Ecological Restoration
1992
- 鈥淗ealing a Damaged Land鈥
- 鈥淏ioregionalism: Reinstating a Culture of Place鈥
David Ray Griffin 鈥 The Reenchantment of Science
1991
- 鈥淢odern Science and Disenchantment鈥
- 鈥淧ostmodern Science and Reenchantment鈥
Jonathan Miller 鈥 Humor and Humors
1990
- 鈥淗umor and Comedy鈥
- 鈥淭he Afterlife of Plays鈥
Michelle Taigue 鈥 Beyond Consciousness: The Magic of Native American Myths
1989
- 鈥淯nveiling the Invisible鈥
- 鈥淩eturning to Beginnings鈥
- 鈥淰ehicles of Wisdom鈥
- 鈥淩ecovery of the Sacred鈥
Jacob Needleman
- 鈥淭he Seeker in A Pathless Land鈥
- 鈥淭he Scientist as Seeker鈥
- 鈥淭he Seeker in Ourselves鈥
James Burke 鈥 The Day the Universe Changed
1987
- 鈥淢echanisms of Change: Do Lemons Whistle鈥
- 鈥淕oodbye, Descartes: Information and Change鈥
Jean Houston 鈥 Exploring the Human Potential
- 鈥淭he Possible Human鈥
- 鈥淛ourney of Transformation 鈥 The Odyssey鈥
- 鈥淭he New Sacred Psychology鈥
William Kaufmann
- 鈥淏lack Holes and Exploding Galaxies鈥
- 鈥淭he Physics of the Early Universe"
- 鈥淭he Origin and Complexity of the Universe鈥

