Empathy, Altruism & Agape: October 1-3, 1999

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Path Home: Empathy, Altruism and Agape
		Friday, October 1, 1999
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.		Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.		Opening Remarks
9:30 a.m. - 12:50 p.m		Perspectives on the Origins of Altruism Moderated by Jeffrey Schloss, Ph.D.- Westmont College Elliott Sober, Ph.D.- University of Wisconsin Mapping the Conceptual Terrain Leda Cosmides, Ph.D. and John Tooby, Ph.D.- University of California, Santa Barbara Friendship, engagement, and the Banker’s Paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of altruism Break William Durham, Ph.D.- Stanford University The Role of Culture in the Evolution of Altruism David Sloan Wilson, Ph.D.- Binghamton University SUNY The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Altruism in Evolutionary Theory Discussion with Audience
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.		Lunch
2:30 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.		Emotions and Empathy Moderated by William Hurlbut, M.D.- Stanford University Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph. D. - Emory University, Yerkes Primate Living Links Center The Communication of Emotions and the Possibility of Sympathy in Monkeys and Apes Antonio Damasio, M.D., Ph.D.- University of Iowa Hospital The Neurobiology of Emotion Break Hanna Damasio, M.D.- University of Iowa Hospital Impaired Emotion and Social Behavior Following Brain Damage William Hurlbut, M.D.- Stanford University Empathy, Evolution and Ethics Discussion with Audience
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.		Dinner Guest Speaker: Rev. Eugene Rivers, Ella J. Baker House
		Saturday, October 2, 1999
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.		Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.		Introduction and Opening
9:10 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.		HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, ATTACHMENT, AND LOVE Moderated by Greg Fricchione, M.D.- Brigham and Women’s Hospital Thomas R. Insel, M.D.- Emory University, Yerkes Primate Center The Molecular Biology of Monogamy Greg Fricchione, M.D.- Brigham and Women’s Hospital Brain Evolution: Separation, Attachment and Agape Break Jerome Kagan, Ph.D. - Harvard University The Human Moral Sense Don Browning, Ph.D.-The University of Chicago Agape, Empathy and the Foundational/Nonfoundational Debate Discussion with Audience
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.		Lunch - Guest Speaker: Joan Eads, Zone Coordinator, L’Arche USA
2:30 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.		Self, Others, and Sacrifice Moderated by William Hurlbut, M.D.- Stanford University Jeffrey P. Schloss, Ph.D. - Westmont College Is It Really More Blessed to Give than to Receive?: Emerging Questions in the Evolution of Radical Altruism Edith Wyschogrod, Ph.D. - Rice University Pythagorean Bodies and the Body of Altruism Break Stephen J. Pope, Ph.D.- Boston College The Ordering of Love Rev. Robert Hamerton-Kelly - Woodside Village Church The Emergence of Radical Love in the Biblical Tradition Discussion with Audience
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.		Dinner Guest Speaker: Dame Cicely Saunders, St. Christopher’s Hospice
		Sunday, October 3, 1999
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.		Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.		Introduction and Opening
9:10 a.m. - 12:00 Noon		THE PSYCHOSOCIAL CONTEXT OF ALTRUISM Moderated by Jeffrey Schloss, Ph.D. - Westmont College Samuel P. Oliner, Ph.D., Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute Extraordinary Acts of Ordinary People: Faces of Heroism and Altruism Pearl Oliner, Ph.D. - California State University - Humboldt Ingroup and Outgroup Altruism: Protestants and Catholics Kristen Renwick Monroe, Ph.D. - University of California How Identity and Perspective Constrain Choice Break Dan Batson, Ph.D. - University of Kansas Addressing the Altruism Question Experimentally V.S. Ramachandran, Ph.D. - University of California, San Diego Neural Basis of empathy and of artistic experience Discussion with Audience
12:10 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.		Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.		GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Moderated by Stephen G. Post, Ph.D. - Case Western University, Center for Biomedical Ethics Lynn Underwood, Ph.D. - Fetzer Institute The Human Experience of Agape & Compassion: Conceptual mapping and data from selected studies Ruben L.F. Habito, Ph.D. - Southern Methodist University Compassion as Outflow of Wisdom: A Buddhist Perspective Lawrence Sullivan, Ph.D.- Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions Can Religions Progress in Love as Science Progress in Knowledge? An Overview and Appraisal Break
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.		Comments/Summary - Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.Case Western Reserve University, Center for Biomedical Ethics Agape: Its Meaning and Scientific Future
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.		Closing: Appreciation, Hopes, and What Comes Next
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.		Reception

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