THE SECOND IBERO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON CRITICAL THINKING:A select panel of scientists, investigators, journalists, and other professionals from Latin America, the United States, and Europe will speak about topics of interest and relevance to scientists, skeptics, and humanists.
- Religion and Science: Are they compatible?
- Religion and Ethics: Can ethics exist without religion?
- Science and Pseudoscience: "Alternative" medicine, parapsychology, UFOs, faith healers, psychic powers, and other mysteries.
- Social Effects of Deception in Politics, Economy, and Mass Media: How the public is deceived, and what we can do to stop it.
Lima - Peru
August 3-5, 2006
Location:
San Marcos National University's Central Library's Auditorium
Ciudad Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Avenida German Amezaga s/n
(intersection of Avenida Universitaria and Avenida Colonial)
Lima - PERU.
SPEAKERS
Norm R. Allen Jr. is the executive director of African Americans for Humanism (AAH), an affiliate of the Center for Inquiry, headquartered in Amherst, New York, USA. He is the editor of two books, African American Humanism: An Anthology (1991), and The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative To Religion (2003), both published by Prometheus Books. He is the editor of the AAH Examiner, the international newsletter of AAH.
PRESENTATION:
The Growth of Religion and its social impact among Latino and African descents
Carlos Alvarado
is a Professor of Philosophy at San Marcos National University and Ricardo Palma University, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
A Epistemological View of Pseudo-Sciences
Rubén Ardila, Professor of Psychology, National University of Colombia, Colombia.
PRESENTATION:
Science & Pseudo-Science: Why has been so hard to build a Science of Behaviour?
Alejandro J. Borgo, Director, Pensar Magazine, Argentina.
PRESENTATION:
Critical Thinking: A Social Necessity or an Academic Luxury?
Artidoro Caceres Velásquez is a Neuro-Psychologist at Alas Peruanas University, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Sex, Science & Religion
Guillermo Carranza is a Humanist & Skeptic Magician "Khalid" in Peru.
PRESENTATION:
The Magic of Paranormal (A Show)
Raymundo Casas is a Professor of Linguistics at San Marcos National University, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
The Spell of Pseudo-Science. The Case of "Scientific" Creationism
Guillermo Carranza Humanist & Skeptic Magician "Khalid", Peru.
PRESENTATION:
The Magic of Paranormal (A Show)
Luis Del Castillo is Professor of Physics at San Marcos National University, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Myth and History in Jesus of Nazareth
Marco Aurelio Denegri, TV host & cultural critic, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Sexual Lie-cracy
Hugo Estrella, President, Argentinian Ethical Humanist Association “Deodoro Roca”, Argentina.
PRESENTATION:
Magical Thinking, Religiosity and Politics in Latin American
Hector Guillen is a Physician & Member of MASA Movement, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Cults & Mind Control
Manuel Humala, Bachelor in Law, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University, Peru
PRESENTATION:
Political Fallacies
Sara Joffre is an Author, Director and Critic of Theatre's Plays, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Reflections on Nietzsche (A performance)
Julio César Krüger, Profesor of Philosophy & Head, San Marcos National University’s Research Institute of Peruvian & Latin American Thinking, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
What is Critical Thinking?
Paul Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author or editor of 45 books, including, The Courage to Become, Skepticism and Humanism: a New Paradigm, and Embracing the Power of Humanism. He is Chairman of The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranornal (CSICOP), and the Council for Secular Humanism and founder of the Center for Inquiry. He is a Fellow of The Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the International Academy of Humanism.
PRESENTATION:
The Need for a New Enlightenment: Defending Science and Reason
Herbert Mujica is a Journalist and Political Analyst in Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Media and Institutional Lies
Joe Nickell, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and author of numerous investigative books, including Looking for a Miracle.
PRESENTATION:
Investigating Miracle Claims
Luis Ruiz Noguez, Editor, E-Magazine "Perspectivas", Mexico.
PRESENTATION:
Extra-Terrestrials before Cameras
Guido Nunez is a member of the Rationalist and Skeptical Association of Venezuela.
PRESENTATION:
"Sistemic Medicine": A new classic of Pseudo-Medicine
Manuel A. Paz-y-Mino is a Philosopher, Author & Editor of the Peruvian Journal of Applied Philosophy.
PRESENTATION:
Lies and Irrationality
Mariano Querol is a Psychiatrist in Peru.
PRESENTATION:
On Human Irrationality
Benjamin Radford is writer, editor, and investigator. He has spent the last ten years battling superstition, dogma, and the paranormal. He is managing editor of the Skeptical Inquirer and CSICOP's PENSAR magazine.
PRESENTATION:
The Importance of Inquiry and the Threat of Myths
Pepe Rodríguez is an author and freethinker in Spain.
PRESENTATION:
From Goddess to God: Genesis of Concept of God and its Change of Gender
Luis Solis is a teacher of Religion & Philosophy at the San Marcos Pedagogical Institute, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Ethics without Religion
Cesar Sparrow is a Psychology Teaching Asistant at UNMSM, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Pseudo-Science and Psychoanalysis
Hernan Toro is a member of the Colombian Skeptics, Bogota.
PRESENTATION:
The Ignored Anomalies of the Shroud of Turin
Humberto Vasquez is a Physician, ESSALUD, Peru.
PRESENTATION:
Pseudo-Medical Therapies
Registration:
Peruvian attendees: S/. 70.
**Paguen su inscripción en el nro. de cuenta en soles de la Asociación Ediciones de la Revista Peruana de Filosofía Aplicada: 0011-0175-0200099411 del BBVA Banco Continental.
Latin American attendees: US $ 20
American attendees: US $ 129
European attendees: € 100
Download Brochure in PDF: CLICK AQUI
Send it to: Pensar c/o CSICOP, P.O. Box 703, Amherst, NY 14226-0703
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Hotels:
SHERATON LIMA HOTEL & CASINO (5 stars)
Classic room single: US$ 80
Classic room double: US$ 87
Tower / Executive room single: US$ 100
Tower / Executive room double: US$ 107
All rooms include breakfasts. Lunch or dinner: US $ 15 - 29
Address: Avenida Paseo de la Republica N°170. Lima 1. Peru. (15 minutes in car from San Marcos National University's Central Library's Auditorium).
Contact person: Frida Cansino, Banquet Manager. Telephone: (511) 315-5038. Fax: (511) 315-5030.
E-mail: fcancino@sheraton.com.pe
HOTEL SAN AGUSTIN RIVIERA (4 stars)
Single room: US$ 25
Double room: US $ 30
All rooms include breakfasts. Lunch or dinner: US $ 4
Address: Avenida Garcilaso de la Vega N° 981. Lima 1. Peru. (15 minutes in car from San Marcos National University's Central Library's Auditorium).
Telephones: (511)4249438 / 4249879. Fax: (511) 3309638 / 4247102.
E-mail: riviera@hotelessanagustin.com.pe
HOSTAL PLUS
Single room: US $ 10
Address: Avenida Universitaria 1845, Pueblo Libre, Lima. Perú (in front to the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and to 5 minutes in car from San Marcos National University's Central Library's Auditorium).
Telephone: (511) 2612534
For further information contact:
cong_pc_lima@yahoo.com
cipsiperu@yahoo.com
el teléfono: (+51-1)4810712; el celular: (+51-1)99215741
