Dr. Ard Louis, January 26, 2009.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a private event in Palo Alto at which Dr. Louis spoke on the nature of self assembling systems and their implications,  Dr. Ard Louis is a Reader in Theoretical Physics and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics and biology. Prior to Oxford he taught Theoretical Chemistry at Cambri ...

Christine Carter, Ph.D., November 19, 2009.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a private salon in which Professor Carter discussed what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about the development of healthy confidence, gratefulness, and optimism in children.  Christine Carter, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and a sociologist who is an authority on the childhood roots of happiness.  Carter received her B.A. from Dartmo ...

Dr. Chris Seiple and Mr. Suhail Khan, May 13, 2009.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a private salon in San Francisco in which Dr. Chris Seiple and Mr. Suhail Khan discussed contemporary religious conflict.  Dr. Seiple is President of the Institute for Global Engagement and Mr. Khan is the Senior Fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. (www.globalengage.org)  Dr. Sieple and Mr. Khan spoke on integrating religious understanding into political ...

N.T. Wright, October 24, 2008.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a sold-out event with over 450 people in the Financial District's Julia Morgan Ballroom.  N.T. Wright and Bart Ehrman discussed and debated the problem of evil, perhaps the world's most persistent and pressing theological and philosophical question.  N. T. Wright is the Anglican Bishop of Durham, England. Previously, he was Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey. He taught New Testament studies for twenty years at Cambrid ...

Bart D. Ehrman, October 24, 2008.  Professor Ehrman was N.T. Wright's discussion partner in the problem of evil discussion.  He in the is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received b ...

Dana Gioia, April 24, 2008.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a sold-out event with over 250 people in the Financial District's Julia Morgan Ballroom.  Gioia spoke on "The Role of Art in Human Community."  Poet, critic, and best selling-anthologist, Dana Gioia is one of America's leading contemporary men of letters.  Winner of the American Book Aware, Gioia is internationally recgnized for his role in reviving rhyme, meter, and n ...

Dr. Francis S. Collins, January 9, 2008.  Socrs in San Francisco hosted a sold-out event with over 500 people in the Financial District's Julia Morgan Ballroom.  Dr. Collins spoke on "The Language of God:  A Believer Looks at the Human Genome."  Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is currently the director of the National Institutes  Health (NIH).  He was formerly the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He led ...