Certainty: Is Science All You Need?

Speaker: 
Troy Van Voorhis
 
26 Jan 2015
 
6:00 PM
 
Great Hall, Memorial Union

Troy Van Voorhis is a professor of chemistry at MIT whose research focuses on the intersection of quantum mechanics and chemistry. He has participated in many conversations about the relationship between science and religious faith, including moderating a forum between Steven Pinker and William Hurlbut at his home institution and speaking alongside three colleagues in "Life, the Universe, and MIT: 4 Brilliant MIT Professors Share Their Worldviews." Van Voorhis earned a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining the faculty of MIT. He is the author of the VeriTalks publication Certainty: Is Science All You Need? in addition to his numerous scholarly publications. Veritas Forum


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