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APU Science, Faith, and Culture Lecture: "Science Cannot Eliminate Purpose from Nature"
February 25, 2008
AZUSA, Calif. –
WHO:
Azusa Pacific University’s Center for Research in Science (CRIS) hosts Ed Fesser, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, Calif.
- Feser will speak on “Aristotle's Revenge: Why Science Cannot Eliminate Purpose from Nature.” It is commonly thought that modern science long ago refuted Aristotle’s claim that teleology, “final causes,” or purposes were intrinsic features of the natural world. However, science in general, and psychology, biology, and physics in particular, are as beholden to the notion of teleology or final causality as they ever were, and would be impossible without it.
- Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind: A Short Introduction and the forthcoming Locke. He has been a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Calif., and a visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
- For more information on thelecture, call (626)-387-5705 or email cris@apu.edu.
Featured in TIME magazine and ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report and The Princeton Review, Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive, Christian, evangelical university, committed to God First and known for excellence in higher education. Azusa Pacific’s main campus lies just 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, while its seven Southern California regional centers bring convenience and extend quality programming. The university offers more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, 23 master's degrees, and 7 doctorates to a total student population of more than 8,100.
