Announcing a talk by Professor Edward Slingerland of the University of British Columbia on Monday, April 14th, 2:00-3:00pm, called Religious Studies and Philosophy in the Age of Consilience: New Approaches Drawn from the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences. The talk will be held in the USUs West Valley Room. Heres some information about Professor Slingerland: Edward Slingerland is a Professor of Asian Studies at UBC and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodiment Cognition. His research draws largely on early Chinese philosophy. His research specialties and teaching interests include warring states (5th-3rd c. B.C.E.), Chinese thought, religious studies (comparative religion, cognitive science, and evolution of religion), cognitive linguistics (blending and conceptual metaphor theory), ethics (virtue ethics, moral psychology), evolutionary psychology, the relationship between the humanities and the natural sciences, and the classical Chinese language. For more information, see eslingerland.arts.ubc.ca.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:34:07 +0000
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