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The spring 2009 lecture
series sponsored by the Ethics Center at California State University,
Fresno will begin Monday, Feb. 2, with a discussion of religious
wars.
The lectures are from noon to 12:50 p.m. in the Alice Peters Auditorium
in the University Business Center. They are free and open to the public.
Lectures will include:
Feb. 2 – “The Myth of Religious War.” David Chan an Associate
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point
will discuss religious wars and the myths that accompany them.
March 4 – “God, Darwin, and the Culture Wars.” Fresno State
faculty member Leonard Olsen (Philosophy) will lecture on the arguments
surrounding the origin of life on Earth and how individuals take extreme
sides without acknowledging a middle position.
March 18 – “César Chavez and Nonviolence.” Jose-Antonio Orosco,
an associate professor of philosophy at Oregon State, will present an
overview of his book, “César Chavez and the Common Sense of
Nonviolence,” which examines the spirit of nonviolence that Chavez
practiced.
April 29 – “Ancient Philosophy and the New Atheists.” Robert
Metcalf, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of
Colorado at Denver, will discuss “new atheism” and contrast it with
ancient Greek approaches to the critique of religion.
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