Michael Spezio will present "Humility as Inclusive Empathy: Theory of Mind and Imaginaries of the True Self" on Friday, February 19th, at 4:00pm Central time. He will talk about empathy, theories about what it is and how research with L'Arche and Homeboy Industries approaches those theories, and the implications for our understandings of self and other.
This free Zoom webinar is hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies in Religion and Science (CASIRAS) and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC). Register by completing this form to receive the link on February 19th.
“CASIRAS is using these webinars to engage further in the advanced science-religion dialogue that is at our core," said CASIRAS President Gayle Woloschak. "We look forward to Dr. Spezio's presentation as he has been a provocative thinker in the field and has published his work in the Zygon Journal over the years."
Spezio is associate professor of psychology, neuroscience, and data science at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. He directs the Laboratory for Inquiry into Valuation and Emotion (the LIVE Lab) and his research focuses on emotion as the cognition and consciousness of valuational representations of self and others in decision making. He is ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
