The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

03/12/2013

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

“What is Islamic Mysticism?”

Professor Muqtedar Khan of UD's Political Science and International Relations Department and the founding Director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Delaware will discuss the Philosophy of Islamic Mysticism. All are invited to attend.

Time Thursday, April 4, 2013
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Location Memorial Hall #127

03/04/2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAU1yifXf1U

"The Practice of Meditation" Prof. Alan Fox at the Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

02/01/2013

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

"The Practice of Meditation"

Alan Fox, Professor of Asian and Comparative Philosophy of Religion of UD's Philosophy Department will be the speaker. He will discuss briefly the philosophy of meditation and after he will lead a meditation for the audience.

Time: Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Purnell Hall #118

You are all invited to attend.

11/07/2012

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

"The Philosophy of Star Trek"

Professor Richard Hanley of UD's Philosophy Department and author of the book "Is Data Human? The Metaphysics of Star Trek" will be the speaker and will discuss the Philosophy of Star Trek.

Time: Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Purnell Hall #118

You are all invited to attend.

10/30/2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIxwskwYSPA

Dr. Aubrey de Grey from the SENS Foundation gives a talk on regenerative medicine at the University of Delaware on October 2, 2012. He is introduced by Marvi...

10/14/2012

From Justin de Leon: This coming week, we have another opportunity to gather and discuss a documentary about an important social justice issue, climate change. Sun Come Up is a documentary about the Carteret Islanders' struggle to adapt to sea level rise. We will follow the documentary with a discussion as we did last week. We will also have material about social justice and environmental stewardship from Baha'i writings and the teachings of the Catholic Climate Covenant, a movement to mitigate climate change in the spirit of justice.

We will meet in Memorial Hall, room 108 on this coming Wednesday, October 17th, at 7:30. The documentary is about 40 minutes long, and we will have a discussion to follow. Feel free to come for just part of the time if you have time constraints. Any and all are welcome, invite friends! The Socratic Club and the Global Governance Student Association is co-sponsoring this event.

09/26/2012

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2013/sep/regenerative-medicine-092612.html

UD Socratic Club to present talk by de Grey on regenerative medicine, aging

09/12/2012

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

We will meet @ 5pm-6pm on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 @:
Saxbys Coffee
Amstel Square
57 Elkton Rd (crosses Amstel Ave)
Newark, DE 19711

The purpose of the meeting will be socialization with the new and old club members and a discussion of events planned for the club.

Marvin Whitaker
President
Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

09/02/2012

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

"Regenerative Medicine: A Realistic Prospect for Defeating Aging Altogether"

Dr. Aubrey de Grey will be the speaker. Aubrey de Grey is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is perhaps best known for his view that human beings could, in theory, live to lifespans far in excess of that which any authenticated cases have lived to today. De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a tissue-repair strategy intended to rejuvenate the human body and allow an indefinite lifespan. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage. De Grey is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and an advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He has been interviewed in recent years in a number of news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, TED, Popular Science, The Colbert Report, Time, and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. In 1999, his book The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging was published, in which he writes that obviating damage to mitochondrial DNA might by itself extend lifespan significantly, though he said it was more likely that cumulative damage to mitochondria is a significant cause of senescence, but not the single dominant cause. On the basis of the book, the University of Cambridge awarded de Grey a PhD in 2000.

Day: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
Time: 7pm
Place: Kirkbride Lecture Hall #204

07/30/2012

I will be giving my first sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark this Sunday, 10:00am if anyone is interested in waking up early to listen to me. :) http://www.uufn.org/sundayservices.html

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark, a Welcoming Congregation located in Newark, Delaware near the University of Delaware. Religious education for children, social justice, caring, events and activities for all. Everyone is welcome!

04/29/2012

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

"The Enlightenment proclaimed Human Progress as Inevitable, is it?"

Professor Joel Best of UD's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice will answer the following question. Professor Best earned his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numberous books such as Damned Lies and Statistics ( 2001); University of California Press, More Damned Lies and Statistics (2004); University of California Press, Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads (2006); University of California Press, and The Stupidity Epidemic: Worrying about Students, Schools, and America's Future (2011); Routledge. In addition Dr. Best is a former President of the Midwest Sociological Society and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and a former Editor of the journal Social Problems.

Day: Friday, May 4, 2012
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Place: Purnell Hall #118

04/04/2012

The Socratic Club at the University of Delaware

"Why is there a divide between continental philosophy and analytic philosophy with regard to reason and science?"

Prof. Aaron Fichtelberg, PhD (in philosophy) of UD's Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice will answer this question.

Time Friday, April 20, 2012
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: Purnell Hall #118