This exciting volume brings together an international gathering of scientists and philosophers concerned with the fate of our planet. Based on a conference held in Perugia, Italy, this collection of papers and symposia confirms Heisenberg’s saying that “real science” is made in the conversations of scientists. In it, we see what is perhaps the most important scientific idea of the twentieth century taking shape before our eyes. – Contributors include: James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Arthur Zajonc, Wes Jackson, John Todd and Nancy Jack Todd, Susan Oyama, Gianluca Bocchi, and Mauro Ceruti.
About the Author
William Irwin Thompson became nationally known through his best-selling book on contemporary affairs, At the Edge of History, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1972. As a cultural historian and philosopher of culture, he is most widely known for “The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture,” “Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science,” and “Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness” In 1972 he founded the Lindisfarne Association, a fellowship of artists, scientists, and contemplatives, and was its director for twenty-five years. Thompson now serves as the curriculum designer and faculty consultant to the Ross School in East Hampton, New York, and divides his year between New York and Switzerland.
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