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SUMMARY:A Pact With Reason - Piers Bursill-Hall (Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:This is an invitation to participate in an important online le
 cture series at the Mercantile\nLibrary of Cincinnati later in the summer.
  These free lectures are called\n\nA Pact With Reason\n\nand are brought t
 o you by the Library\, the Centre for Public Engagement with Science\n(Uni
 versity of Cincinnati) and a group of private sponsors. There will be ten 
 lectures\,\none a week\, beginning on Thursday\, July 16\, at 1 p.m. (East
 ern Daylight Time\, 6 pm\nUK time). Our lecturer will be Piers Bursill-Hal
 l of Cambridge University.\n\nWhy these lectures and why now?\n\nSince the
  time of the ancient Greeks\, a powerful\, rationalist\, scientific tradit
 ion has run\nthrough Western thinking and Western societies. This traditio
 n is far from perfect and has\nresulted in outcomes that are both noble an
 d tragic. But\, when all is said and done\, we must\nacknowledge that this
  tradition has been the source of the dramatic dynamism and success\nof We
 stern societies.\nUnfortunately\, we see in our time a weakening of belief
  in and support for that tradition. In\nour own society\, we see daily evi
 dence that many people are turning away from science and\nfacts from reaso
 n itself as the basis for structuring our common life. This is a very\ndan
 gerous turn of events and one that we need to combat vigorously. To do tha
 t\, we need to\nunderstand our civilization’s “Pact With Reason” how
  it emerged\, the twists and turns it has\ntaken for two and a half millen
 nia\, and the place it has brought us to in 2020. Those are the\ntopics th
 at we will cover in these ten lectures.\nPiers Bursill-Hall\, our lecturer
 \, is a highly regarded lecturer on the history and philosophy of\nscience
  and mathematics at Cambridge University. His talks on the history of scie
 nce\,\nmathematics\, and medicine are celebrated for their breadth of know
 ledge\, insights\, clarity\,\nand wit. In a time when many have turned awa
 y from the very tradition that has made our\ncivilization great\, Piers wi
 ll remind us how our future survival and success depend on our\nunderstand
 ing of and fidelity to that tradition.\nWe hope you’ll join these fascin
 ating and timely lectures. \n\nYou can register by sending email\nto info@
 mercantilelibrary.com or\, directly\, at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/a-pact
 -with-reasona/\nregister. For more information\, go to https://mercantilel
 ibrary.com/calendar/a-pact-withreason-\na-lecture-series/2020-07-16/
LOCATION:Online
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