The Institute for Science and Human Values (ISHV) will convene its Third Annual Symposium at Columbia University in New York City on April 12-13, 2013. The theme for this year’s event is “The Human Prospect and the Fate of Our Planetary Civilization: Science, Humanism, Ethics, and the Task Before Us." A distinguished cast of scientists, scholars and authors will assemble for an interdisciplinary examination of pressing issues at the forefront of humanism and society today. Discussions will center on how organized secular humanism can be translated into an effective public philosophy of pragmatic action and persuasion, political and otherwise. Featured prominently will be Dr. Philip Kitcher, author of Living with Darwin and John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia, who will be fresh from delivering the prestigious 2013 Terry Lectures at Yale University on the topic of “Secular Humanism”.

For more information, please visit the ISHV Symposium page.