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Cortona Week

Cortona, Hotel Oasi

Cortona Week 1985

Cortona 1

Cortona 1

For thirty editions, Cortona Week took place in a former monastery on a Tuscan hillside with the support of ETH Zurich. Pier Luigi Luisi founded and directed it until he retired from ETH in 2003. Reinhard Nesper, ETH Prof of Chemistry led it until 2014, followed by Gerd Folkers, ETH Prof of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from 2015 to 2017. Each edition took up a question of its time: Perception. Utopia & Science. Metamorphosis. Borders & Limits. Beauty. Non Local. I. Reproducibility. Uncertainty & Serendipity. Concepts on the Move.

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People recorded for this edition

  • Brother David Steindl-Rast, 1985

    Benedictine monk, author and interfaith scholar

  • Francisco Varela, 1985

    neuroscientist, biologist and philosopher

  • Morris Berman, 1985

    cultural historian and social critic

  • David Bohm, 1985

    theoretical physicist

  • Fritjof Capra, 1985

    physicist and systems theorist

  • Albert Hofmann, 1985

    chemist and discoverer of LSD

  • Alexander Lowen, 1985

    physician and psychotherapist, founder of bioenergetic analysis

  • Rupert Sheldrake, 1985

    biologist and author

  • Chaturvedi Badrinath, 1985

    philosopher, author and civil servant

  • William Irwin Thompson, 1985

    cultural historian, philosopher and social thinker