Joining a roster that includes some of the world's leading
authors, scientists and intellectuals, Laura J. Snyder, Ph.D.,
Professor of
Philosophy at St. John’s University, was a featured speaker at
the celebrated TEDGlobal
conference, held this year in Edinburgh.
TED, which stands for technology, entertainment and design, is a
nonprofit organization formed in 1984 to bring together influential
thinkers from these diverse worlds. Past conferences have
featured Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Peter
Gabriel and Arianna Huffington.
Dr. Snyder spoke on
“The Invention of the Scientist” and the origins of modern
scientific inquiry. “It was so much fun to tell it,” she wrote in
her blog after addressing an
audience of more than 800. “What was thrilling was how fascinated
this group of nonacademics and nonhistorians were by the
philosophical and historical story I wove for them.”
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