ETH Meets You in San Francisco
San Francisco, 14 August 2017 - Critical Thinking in a Changing World. This symposium will feature lightning talks about Critical Thinking - the reasons for its development and how we might preserve this tradition in science for future generations.
Critical Thinking in a Changing World
One look through a telescope was enough to change the world in Galileo’s time. Telescopes were rare then, but now they exist in abundance. So, what is the contemporary equivalent of the telescope today? A simulation machine?
With the rapid rise of new technologies, Critical Thinking takes on a more central role filtering hype from emerging scientific paradigms. Critical Thinking has always been and will continue to be crucial to the scientific method; however, since the Enlightenment teaching Critical Thinking has become an isolated practice at many academic institutions.
Symposium
Monday, 14 August 2017
6:30-9:30 p.m.
external pageRegistration
Speakers
Lino Guzzella
President, ETH Zurich
Gerd Folkers
Critical Thinking Initiative, ETH Zurich
external pageSepp Gumbrecht
Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
external pagePhilippe Kahn
CEO, Fullpower Technologies
Moderator
external pageChris Luebkeman Arup Fellow and Global Director, Arup Foresight
Host
external pageGioia Deucher CEO, swissnex San Francisco (as of August 2)
Venue
external pageswissnex San Francisco
Pier 17, Suite 800