Certainty: Is Science All You Need?
Troy Van Voorhis
Monday, 26 Jan 2015 at 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 ForumThe Veritas Forums are university events that engage students and faculty in discussions of life’s hardest questions.
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