In June 2010 the Principal Investigors convened a meeting at the Faculty Club on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. The aim of the gathering was to explore some of the core areas of the project in the context of interdisciplinary conversations involving senior scholars and early-career researchers in the various fields.

Click the icon or link below for some reflections from the participants on topics including:

• Can semiotics add to our understanding of biology?
• What is the role of metaphysics in the discussion?
• Why draw from Peirce?
• Is the origin of life a biological or theological problem?

http://www.counterbalance.org/stars-ool/index-frame.html

 

Thanks to Robert J. Russell, Philip Clayton, Terrence Deacon, Niles Lehman, Bruce Weber and James Haag for their contributions to this video. We also thank Adrian Wyard for filming and editing the video and for hosting it on the Counterbalance website (www.counterbalance.org)

Image above: The Last Supper, Fra Angelico, Museum of San Marco, Florence, Italy. Reproduced courtesy of The Yorck Project.