Public lecture on science, Judaism planned for Sept. 17

A free public lecture on the intersection of Judaic thought and science will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, at UW–Madison.

Steven Nadler, the William H. Hay II WARF professor of philosophy at UW–Madison, will present a talk titled “Science and Religion in Jewish Thought, Or, What Maimonides Really Meant.” His lecture will discuss 12th century Jewish thinker Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides, who devoted his major philosophical work to resolving the perplexity of someone who is both religiously devout and scientifically informed and to showing how the Jewish worldview can be understood in naturalistic and rationalistic terms.

The lecture will be held in Room 1315 of the Chemistry Building. The event is sponsored by the Science, Religion, and Ethics program of the Wisconsin Initiative for Science Literacy, which seeks to promote discourse on the connections between science and religion. More information, including a reading list related to the talk, can be found online.