Covalence for September 2021
Covalence for July/August: The giga and nanoscale within and without
This month we discuss with Michael Spezio, a neuroscientist and minister of word and sacrament in the Presbyterian Church, how he views the importance of how we view ourselves from the perspective of faith and science. He teaches coursework at Scripps College on...
Homo sapiens: perched between giga, nano, and God
What I have to say is provoked by an image, informed by science, and interpreted theologically and philosophically. Let’s begin with the image -- which is where I began. The basic image is that of a human being, existing -- I like the image of perching, like the boy...
Humility, empathy and discovery in science and in ministry
Michael Spezio is one of those rare individuals who has fit more than one passion into his daily work. Spezio is associate professor of psychology, neuroscience and data science at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. He is also ordained as a Minister of Word and...
Davidson religion and science professor to retire
Andy Lustig, the inaugural Holmes Rolston III Professor of Religion and Science at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, announced his retirement at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year. Much of Lustig’s work has centered on biomedical ethics, having...
Arizona State to study science, craftwork and ‘soulwork’
Arizona State University researchers are the latest to be awarded a John Templeton Foundation grant on how ideas of craftwork and soulwork can transform laboratory culture. The effort is by a team of researchers from the university’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics,...
Can artificial intelligence make moral decisions?
Duke University ethics professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, has been leading an interdisciplinary team looking at the decisions that surgeons need to make surrounding kidney transplants. The most...
