Welcome to CyberPsych.

The purpose of this discussion board is to allow people to express their feelings and find peer support. There is no professional intervention, and it is not intended to be psychological treatment or education. For HotLine help, especially for suicidal feelings, try 1.800.SUICIDE (784.2433). Also dialing 211 can refer you to help in many areas of the US. HotLine for Eating Disorders is 1.800.931.2237

CyberPsych Announcements for Books, Meetings, New Sites

4th Annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture

Posted By: New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Ev
Date: Tuesday, 15 February 2005, at 3:59 a.m.

New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology

4th Annual William D. Hamilton Memorial Lecture

Daniel C. Dennett on Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

April 29, 2005 at 7:00 PM
CHP Room, Parker Pavilion
Westbrook College Campus
Uiversity of New England,
716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine.

What kind of explanation can the natural sciences provide for the
varietyof religious practices and beliefs? One possibility, of course,
is that itis simply the truth, and that all human groups discover this
in the same way that they discover that food and water are necessary for
survival, but there are other possible explanations that may shed light
on the powerful
influence of religion in all contemporary societies.

Daniel C. Dennett is the author of Freedom Evolves (Viking Penguin,
2003), Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Simon &Schuster, 1995) and many other
contributions to philosophy and cognitive science. He is University
Professor and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy and Director of
the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His first book,
Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms
(1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness
Explained (1991),Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995), Kinds of Minds (1996),
and Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays 1984-1996 (MIT Press and
Penguin, 1998). He co-edited The Mind's I with Douglas Hofstadter in
1981. He is the author of over two hundred scholarly articles on various
aspects on the mind, published in journals ranging from Artificial
Intelligence and Behavioral and Brain Sciences to Poetics Today and the
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He gave the John Locke Lectures
at Oxford in 1983, the Gavin David Young Lectures at Adelaide,
Australia, in 1985, the Tanner Lecture at Michigan in 1986, and the Jean
Nicod lectures at Paris in 2001among many others. He has received two
Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Fellowship at the
Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science. He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987. He was the Co-founder (in
1985) and Co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts, and
has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian
Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in
Boston. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the New England Institute for
Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology.