Cortona, Hotel Oasi
Cortona Week 2005
Beauty
Beauty
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.
People recorded for this edition
Rupert Sheldrake, 2005
biologist and author
Avshalom Elitzur, 2005
physicist and philosopher
Joan Halifax, 2005
Zen Buddhist teacher and anthropologist
Michel Bitbol, 2005
philosopher of science, specialising in quantum physics