Kira Institute Summer School 2000

(click for 350K large image)	Kira Institute Summer School 2000 Ways of Knowing

See our photo gallery from Kira Summer School 2000.
See photos from the student New Years gathering.
Read a student's account of this summer school (and Summer School 2001) by Thomas Reydon.

Our third Kira Summer School was held July 30 to August 12, 2000, on the Amherst College campus, with the topic "Ways of Knowing." The program explored the interplay between scientific and other ways of encountering the world and their associated dimensions of meanings and values. Special attention was given to the possible integration of these different perspectives in daily life. See our People at Kira page for details on the Summer School faculty.

Also, during the Summer School on August 4 to August 6, a three-day public conference took place. Please see the Kira Conference 2000 for more details.

The Kira Conference included presentations by the following speakers:

Thupten Jinpa, distinguished Tibetan translator and interpreter of the Dalai Lama
Erazim Kohak, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Boston University
Elisabeth Lloyd, Professor of Biology and Philosophy at Indiana University
Brian Cantwell Smith, Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University
Elizabeth Spelke, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
Eleonore Stump, Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University
Joel Upton, Professor of Art and History at Amherst College

For more background information about the previous summer school, see the Summer School '99 poster (175K image file), and a brief article describing the background for the first summer school.

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