This roundtable will examine how advances in genetics and neuroscience, along with ideas from quantum mechanics, are reshaping conceptions of free will, individual choice, and their implications for law.

This roundtable will examine how young children understand and experience the world across developmental stages, and what these differences reveal about cognition, memory, and emotion, with implications for supporting both typical development and developmental disorders.

This roundtable will explore curiosity as both a driving force of knowledge and a source of existential and ethical inquiry, examining how lives shaped by curiosity give meaning across disciplines and perspectives.

This roundtable will examine how science approaches the problem of consciousness, and the roles of physics, psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, philosophy, and religion in understanding sentience and self-awareness.

This roundtable will consider the mental and personal qualities that drive scientific and intellectual quests for discovery, beyond curiosity and courage, in the face of the known and the unknown.

Part 2: Particle Fever Q&A with Mark Levinson Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of... read more! »

This roundtable will examine the sublime across visual arts, music, religious experience, and nature, considering how philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience illuminate the experience and its relation to pleasure and awe.

This roundtable will examine the role of the body in musical experience, perception, and cognition through dialogue between artists and scientists.

This roundtable will examine how awareness of mortality shapes human life, from early anxieties to philosophical and spiritual responses, and how scientific and spiritual developments inform ideas about transcendence, perception, and possible forms of existence beyond death.

This roundtable will explore French Surrealist poetry in translation, situating it within the broader history and activities of the Surrealist movement from the 1920s to the 1960s.