May 1, 2021 · ▶ Video
Stress
The roundtable explores stress as a universal human experience woven into language, thought, and emotion. It examines how stress manifests from various sources -- achievement,...
Allison Avery, Ben Bernstein, Charles Marmar, Ralph Wharton
March 20, 2021 · ▶ Video
Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine
The roundtable explores how placebos "work" for medical conditions despite being inert substances. It examines the mind-body connection, asking: "what is the work they do?" The...
Luana Colloca, Kathryn Hall, Gerald Hurowitz, Robert Klitzman
February 20, 2021 · ▶ Video
Populism
Populism involves "political mobilization of 'the people' against a perceived elite caste of professional politicians." The roundtable explores what triggers such mass movements,...
Jeffrey Alexander, Dhananjay Jagannathan, Takis Pappas, Harry L. Watson
January 30, 2021 · ▶ Video
The Many Minds of Memory
Memory functions as "a dynamic process, a stream of renditions and reflections" rather than static storage. The event explores how memory "conveys to us not what strictly...
Cristina Alberini, Richard Cohen, Gayatri Devi, Alexandra Horowitz, Andy Lee, Setsuko Winchester
September 26, 2020 · ▶ Video
Ethics & AI
The roundtable explored how artificial intelligence challenges traditional notions of justice and anonymity. Drawing on John Rawls's "veil of ignorance" thought experiment, the...
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Branden Fitelson, Rayid Ghani, Gabbrielle Johnson, Tracey Meares
February 29, 2020 · ▶ Video
How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life
This roundtable examined Joseph LeDoux's book The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. The core premise challenges conventional...
Joseph LeDoux, Kristen Lindquist, Karl Joseph Niklas, Gerald Hurowitz, David Rosenthal
December 7, 2019 · ▶ Video
Mathematics and Other Realities
The question of what the world in which we live consists of is as old as mankind itself. In philosophical jargon, this is the question of the ontological basis of reality. With...
Harald Atmanspacher, Hartry Field, Markus Gabriel, Michael Harris, Kristopher McDaniel, Alma Steingart
November 16, 2019 · ▶ Video
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
The event explores how empathy -- derived from Greek "pathos" meaning "to endure" -- functions through fiction. Coined in 1909 by psychologist Edward Bradford Titchner as a...
Percival Everett, Siri Hustvedt, Yiyun Li, Joseph Luzzi, Alberto Manguel
October 5, 2019 · ▶ Video
Mechanization of Math
The roundtable explores how mathematical proofs too complex for human verification are now being certified by machine systems. It addresses whether mathematics should require...
Stephanie Dick, Branden Fitelson, Thomas Callister Hales, Michael Harris, Francesca Rossi
September 21, 2019 · ▶ Video
Lying
The roundtable explores the complexities of truth-telling beyond simple factual accuracy. It examines how omissions can create false impressions, the nature of lies versus truth...
Anna Balas, Neil Garrett, Emma Levine, Francis X. Shen, Jonathan Stray
June 8, 2019 · ▶ Video
Status
A recent New York Times article proclaimed "status anxiety" one of the defining preoccupations of our time (Michelle Goldberg, "Status Anxiety and the Scam Economy," March 15,...
W. Warner Burke, James L. Fuller, David Levine, Darrin McMahon, Tayarisha Poe
May 18, 2019 · ▶ Video
Shame
The roundtable examined shame as a societal mechanism, addressing when and why shaming occurs, who profits from it, and how power dynamics operate through shame. Key questions...
Joseph Adamson, Michael Lewis, Cathy O'Neil, Richard A. Shweder
April 27, 2019 · ▶ Video
Living in the Anthropocene
The roundtable explores conceptual questions about characterizing our planet's current era, examining distinctions between "human subjects and the non-human realm, between nature...
Akeel Bilgrami, Amitav Ghosh, Dale Jamieson, John Kress, Donald Moss, Nermeen Shaikh
March 9, 2019 · ▶ Video
Life in the Universe
The roundtable explores "the notion of life in the universe and what it might look like elsewhere" given billions of observable stars and galaxies intriguing both scientists and...
Ken Dill, Priyamvada Natarajan, Dennis Overbye, Caleb Scharf, Edwin Turner
January 19, 2019 · ▶ Video
Math Models Mind
If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of...
Larry Amsel, Cheryl Corcoran, Andrew Gerber, Kenneth Miller, John Murray, Aaditya Rangan
December 1, 2018 · ▶ Video
The Beauty and Unity of Mathematics
The roundtable explores mathematical proof and verification. "Proof, in the form of step by step deduction, following the rules of logical reasoning, is the ultimate test of...
Avner Ash, Garry Hagberg, Michael Harris, Barry Mazur, Peter Pesic
November 10, 2018 · ▶ Video
The Future of Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis ushered a new era of understanding psychiatric conditions which lasted half a century. The advent of psychopharmacology moved the focus back to the importance of...
Michael First, Laura Hirshbein, Francis Lee, Robert Michels, Miklos Toth
June 14, 2018 · ▶ Video
Creative Turbulence (Roundtable)
The roundtable culminated a Creative Turbulence art exhibition displayed at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (June 9-16, 2018). It brought together artists and scientists to...
R. Luke DuBois, Enrico Fonda, Dana Karwas, Denis Pelli, Katepalli Sreenivasan