All News

Heidi M. Ravven, professor of religious studies, gave a paper, "What Maimonides and Spinoza Can Teach us About Moral Psychology and Agency," at the annual joint meeting of the Society for Jewish Ethics, Society for Christian Ethics, and Society for the Study of Islamic Ethics in New Orleans, Jan. 6-9.

Heidi M. Ravven, professor of religious studies, gave an invited paper at the Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting in Boston on Dec. 21. The paper, "Reviving a Jewish Medieval and Spinozist Model of Moral Agency," was delivered in the session "Re-opening The Conversation Between Jewish Philosophy and Contemporary Science," of the Modern Jewish Thought and Theology section of the AJS.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was a respondent in a discussion of Dr. Brian Johnson's “The Psychoanalysis of a Man with Heroin Dependence: Implications for Neurobiological Theories of Attachment and Drug Craving," published in Neuropsychoanalysis, 2010, 12 (2) pp. 207-215. The discussion took place on Nov. 17 at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven published a response to the talk/essay of Alex Rosenberg, professor of philosophy at Duke University, on The Disenchanted Naturalist’s Guide to Reality. The work is part of "On the Human: a Project of the National Humanities Center." View both Rosenberg's essay and Ravven's response essay.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant in an online discussion for the National Humanities Center project titled "On The Human." Ravven was a respondent in “After Darwin: On Being Human,” a roundtable at Duke University’s Nov. 9 symposium, Darwin Across the Disciplines. It featured among others Geoff Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, and Alex Rosenberg, the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.