1995 | In the Company of Animals conference, Keynote Address by Stephen Jay Gould | The New School

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1995 - In the Company of Animals - Keynote: Stephen Jay Gould | The New School
April 6-8, 1995:
The 4th conference in the Social Research Conference series, In the Company of Animals examined our relationship with other animals over time and in different cultures through a public conference at the New School, a poetry reading organized by the American Academy of Poets, and exhibits and other public programs at the Pierpont Morgan Library, The Asia Society, The Museum of African Art, and the Jewish Museum.
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 -- May 20, 2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and the Keynote speaker and author for the conference.
This conference was made possible by generous support from The Howard Gilman Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Foundation, and, finally, Ms. Caroline Williams.
The conference proceedings are available in a special issue of Social Research, Vol. 62 No. 3 (Fall 1995). You may also join our event mailing list by contacting us at [e-mail].
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[@Mchavez916]

Gould starts at 7:15

[@theHindenberg]

We need this man's intellect today.

[@bluethursday]

i LOVE this man

[@mieliav]

gould's books are such exciting reads.

[@TipoQueTocaelPiano]

Which one would you recommend?

[@mieliav]

most of them are collections of essays, so one doesn't have to read from front to back. 'Wonderful Life' is a longer work on one subject. start w/ any essay and see where you go!

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

Any of them. They're all intense and broad and ultimately humbling. The guy's brain fills your head with such an avalanche of ideas that it makes you realise what your own brain is capable of.

[@cesaralvarado775]

There are a few online you can read here: www.stephenjaygould.org/books/modern.html

[@tarnopol]

Gould starts at 7:15.

[@amaxamon]

I love all the pens lol just in case he needs to write an essay on stage?? ;)

[@kb5214]

amaxamon awesome comment!

[@johndoe9207]

2021

[@cafinario]

I did not quite get why he always spoke while laughing at the same time.

[@jesselopes5196]

it's called 'exuberance'

[@whatabouttheearth]

Different strokes for different folks

[@pashute12]

[17:51] ...a believer I'm not, I'm a good New York Jew

[@whatabouttheearth]

Right, but "higher boney fishes", even that language is ascension based. It's so embedded in more than just language. And it not only relates to anthropocentric mindsets but a religious mindset of ascension, going to heaven, this has of course been conditioned by thousands of years of certain unfounded anthropocentric/religious perceptions and indoctrination.

[@bon12121]

22:11 interesting, why is it nonsense?

[@christopherhamilton3621]

Because it’s firstly anthropomorphising and secondly a circular argument.

[@emadbagheri]

lol fraud!

[@whatabouttheearth]

A truly erudite and nuanced response.

[@Raydensheraj]

Why fraud?

[@bon12121]

agreed, why fraud?

[@emadbagheri]

@@bon12121 the phrase used by his colleagues (in public writing) to describe him "...many of us Theoretical Biologist who knew SJG personally thought he was something of an intellectual fraud ..." ( Robert Trivera PHD), that's from his friends but you should read his critics!

[@bon12121]

@@emadbagheri sheesh, that was a friend?!