Very interesting. I read the linked article but am interested in learning more about what âsecular studiesâ entails. How would you define the academic scope of such a chair?
The aim is to make the chair like the one at Oxford but more focused on US policy that is now harmfully influence by Christian Nationalists in Government.
The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair at the University of Oxford. The chair was established in 1995 for the ethologist Richard Dawkins by an endowment from Charles Simonyi.[1][2] The aim of the Professorship is âto communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understandingâ. It is a position that had been endowed by Charles Simonyi with the express intention that the holder âbe expected to make important contributions to the public understanding of some scientific fieldâ,[3] and that its first holder should be Richard Dawkins.[4]