Austin Dacey

Day: Saturday, April 23
Hour: 10:00 - 10:30 am
Presentation: The Bioethics of Information: Intellectual Property and Global Science

Austin Dacey has lectured and published widely on issues at the intersection of science, religion, ethics, and society. He works for the Center for Inquiry, a think tank affiliated with the State University of New York and concerned with the secular, scientific outlook. He serves as executive editor of Philo, an academic journal specializing in philosophical naturalism; a contributor to the magazines Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry; and director of the Center's new Science and the Public program. In 2002 he earned a doctorate in applied ethics and social philosophy, concentrating on liberalism, conscience, and public discourse. He is co-author (with Lewis Vaughn) of The Case for Humanism: An Introduction.

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