Astrobiology, Gaia, and the Anthropocene Ironies

Astrobiology, Gaia, and the Anthropocene Ironies
October 30, 2019, 5:30pm
Feliciano School of Business 101 What is the Anthropocene? 为什么这很重要？ 我们应该如何评估它？ 弗雷德里克·v·西蒙斯博士的讲座将探讨这些问题的科学、伦理和宗教的答案，并认为它们是密不可分的。 He proposes that the new science of astrobiology’s use of the religious idea of Gaia offers a fruitful perspective on these matters by suggesting that the Anthropocene is most distinctive when least conspicuous.

Frederick V. Simmons, PhD, holds a PhD in Religious Ethics from Yale University and is a Research Associate Professor at Boston University School of Theology and an Affiliate Faculty Member at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was previously the Houston Witherspoon Fellow in Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Dr. Simmons has taught at Yale Divinity School, Amherst College, La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and La Universidad Politécnica Salesiana.