Lectures - 2007 Overview In Search of Truth

Craig Hamilton (Friday, June 8 at 7:00 pm and Saturday, June 9 at 10:00 am)

Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver, and the former three-term Governor of Colorado (1975-1987).

Best known as the former Senior Editor of What is Enlightenment? magazine, founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute and regularly heard on New Dimensions Radio.

Craig Hamilton is an independent researcher, writer, broadcaster, and lecturer with a passion for the evolution of consciousness. He is best known for his work as Senior Editor of the award- winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine. His articles have examined the landscape of an emerging evolutionary spirituality and have contributed significantly to the forging of a new, scientifically informed spiritual worldview bridging the great wisdom traditions of both the East and the West.

Craig is a founding member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, and a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, an interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Craig is also a veteran broadcaster whose in-depth interviews with leading luminaries are regularly heard by New Dimensions Radio's seven million listeners.

Friday’s session will focus on whether evolutionary science and religious faith can ultimately find common ground. In this lecture, Craig Hamilton explores the emerging worldview of "evolutionary spirituality" - a hopeful new paradigm in which science and spirit come together and invite us to step up to our roles as co-creators of the future.

In Saturday’s session Mr. Hamilton will discuss how brain science is giving us a window into the nature of our minds-and ourselves-that no previous generation could have imagined. Join Craig Hamilton as he searches the uncertain ground between biology and mysticism for a theory of consciousness that embraces both science and the soul.

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(Ret.) Brigadier General Mal Wakin, Ph.D. (Thursday, August 16 at 7:00 pm and Friday, August 17 at 7:00 pm)

Holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in Secondary Education and School Administration from the State University of New York at Albany, and a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

Malham M. Wakin is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has taught at the Air Force Academy since 1959 and served as Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, Chairman of the Humanities Division, Assistant Dean, and Associate Dean. He served on active duty with the Air Force from 1953 to 1995. He holds a number of military decorations including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit (three). He has authored or edited five books, the most recent being Integrity First, Reflections of a Military Philosopher. After retiring in the rank of Brigadier General in 1995, General Wakin served the Air Force Academy for another two years as the Lyon Chair Professor of Professional Ethics.

He also was awarded honorary degrees by St. Mary's University (San Antonio), Illinois Benedictine University, and the Royal Military College of Canada.  He was a member of the Ethics Oversight Committee for the U.S. Olympic Committee for 13 years.  He continues to average more than sixty lectures each year to a variety of audiences around the world.

Thursday’s session will focus on what is ethics all about; what are the common sense characteristics of our moral judgments; which popular moral theories are catastrophic?

Friday's session will explore what kind of ethics is appropriate for the military profession and can there really be moral constraints once the shooting starts?

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Roger Pielke Sr. Ph.D.(Friday August 31 at 7:00 pm)

Senior Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado in Boulder, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University

Dr. Pielke is currently a Senior Research Scientist in CIRES and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (PAOS) at the University of Colorado in Boulder (November 2005 -present). He is also an Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.

Dr. Pielke has studied terrain-induced mesoscale systems, including the development of a three-dimensional mesoscale model of the sea breeze, for which he received the NOAA Distinguished Authorship Award for 1974. Dr. Pielke has worked for NOAA's Experimental Meteorology Lab, The University of Virginia, and Colorado State University. He served as Colorado State Climatologist from 1999-2006.

He was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (July 2003-2006). He was a visiting Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona from October to December 2004. Professor Pielke has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 50 chapters in books, and co-edited 9 books.

Humans are significantly altering the global climate, but in a variety of diverse ways beyond the radiative effect of carbon dioxide. Global warming is actually not equivalent to climate change. Significant, societally important climate change, due to both natural and human climate forcings, can occur without any global warming or cooling. The current emphasis in the news and in political debates is actually on energy policy not climate policy.

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Heinrich von Staden, Ph.D. (Thursday, September 20 at 7:00 pm and Friday, September 21 at 7:00 pm)

Yale University B.A., Universität Wien, Universität Tübingen (Dr. of Philosophy)

Heinrich von Staden, Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, has written on numerous topics in ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine, philosophy, and literary theory, from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD. Drawing on a wide range of scientific, philosophical, literary, and religious sources, he has contributed to the transformation of the history of ancient science and medicine, particularly of the Hellenistic period. His prize-winning book Herophilus: the Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria (1989, reprinted 1994) has been acclaimed as a major contribution to our understanding of "the forgotten revolution."

Thursday's lecture will explore the relations between science, religion, and philosophy through examples from the classical and Hellenistic periods (mainly from the fifth to the third centuries BC). Not only scientific and

philosophical critiques of magic and of traditional religion but also affinities between 'secular' science, philosophical rationalism, and religion will be discussed. Pre-Socratic as well as Hellenistic philosophy, Hippocratic medicine, Greek sacred laws, and Alexandrian science of the third century BC will provide the principal evidence.

The point of departure of Friday's lecture will be Greek science of the second century AD, particularly as it was practiced in Rome and in Egypt. Here the focus will be on attempts to unify science, philosophy, and religion within a single system. The evidence for this lecture will be drawn principally from the most influential ancient astronomer, Ptolemy, and the most influential ancient medical theorist, Galen of Pergamum.

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