ICUS XVII Program: Los Angeles, 1988
Committee 1: The Evolution of Man
- Aijmer, Goran, The Nature of Ritual and the Place of Ritual in Human Evolution
- Battle, Alcira M. del C., The Importance of Prebiotic Porshyrins in Biopoiesis
- Fong, Peter, The Emergence of Life and Man in the Inanimate Material World
- Harrison, G. Ainworth, Natural Selection and the Human Condition
- Higatsberger, Michael, Conceptual Evolution in Physics, A Case Study of the New Didactic System, Physics in 700 Experiments
- Kantischeider, Bernulf, The Anthropic Principle – Physical Constraints for the Evolution of Intelligent Life – An Epistemological Assessment
- Leinfellner, Werner, Traditional Ethics, Ethical Decision Theory and Evolutionay Ethics
- Pincheira, Guido, The Evolution of the Genetic Code
- Tardon, Camilo Vijil y, A Model of Man
- Vollmer, Gerhard, Darwinian and Non-Darwinian Principles in Evolution
- Wells, Jonathan, Charles Darwin on the Teleology of Evolution
Discussion:
- Brogger on Aijmer
- Flew on Radnitzky
- Ghiselin on Vollmer
- Goernitz on Kanitscheider
- Molinski on Leinfellner
- Scott on Wells
- von Studnitz on Tardon
Committee 2: Ethnocentrism vs. World Unity: Impacts on Socialism and Education
- Albornoz, Orlando, Ethnocentrism in Education, Comparative Analysis, The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
- Bernardi, Bernardo, Ethnocentrism as a Social Need and Disease
- Flouris, George and Spiridakis, John, Political Socialization and the World Citizen
- Illyes, Sandor, Psychological Aspects of Ethnic Mentality
- Ishumi, Abel G.M., Ethnocentrism in Education, The Case of Colonial Africa
- Kozma, Tamas, Dimensions of Multiculturalism, The Emergence of a New Educational Ideology Kurti, Nicholas, Are Science and Ethnocentrism Compatible
- Lee, Nam Pyo, Mass Media and Popular Culture Patai, Raphael, Ethnocentrism in Education and the Mulim World
- Rayapen, Lewis C.A., Ethnocentrism and Multiculturalism from a Unification Perspective
- Schleicher, Klaus, Public Opinion and International Education, Challenges to Education Policy
- Shtromas, Alexander, Universal Values vs. Local Preferences and Guilt Complexes in Transition to Global Education
- Szabolsci, Miklos, Ethocentrism in Education, A Comparative Analysis of Eastern and Western Problems in Europe
- Wagaw, Teshome G., Education and Ethnocentrism, The Role and Impact of International Organizations
Dicsussion:
- Doebler on Illyes, Thomas and Flouris
- Fujita on Bernardi, Kozma and Shtromas
- Knappert on Shukla, Chitnis and Ishumi
Committee 3: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Development and Modernization
- Alonso, Marcelo, A Secure Energy Future, A Challenge for Development
- Arunachalam, Subbiah and Singh, Udal, Ethics of Having Access to Information and the Scientific Output of Developing Countries,
- Eraj, Yusuf Ali, Nutrition Program for Pre-School Children, An African Experiment
- Fleming, James R., Historical Perspectives on the International Transfer of Science and Technology
- Islam, Nurul, Drug Policy, Medicine and Social Development
- Khan, Salar M., Preservation of Flora and Fauna, A Moral Responsibility of Mankind
- Miyawaki, Akira, Living in Harmony with Nature, A Case Study of Japan
- Moravcsik, Michael J., The Geographical Unification of the Sciences, Strengthening the Scientific Infrastructure in the Developing Countries
- Ramirez, Jamie Ayala, Whither Aid, Whither Development
- Wickramasinghe, Chandra, Astronomy, A Planetwide Perspective
- Yamaguchi, Hikoyuki, New and Emerging Sciences and Their Impact on Development and Culture
Discussion:
Committee 4: East-West Perspectives on Science and Spirit
- Anantharaman, T.R., Science, Spirituality and Technology, Essential and Interdependent
- Bakar, Osman, The Unity of Science and Spiritual Knowledge, The Islamic Experience
- Balasubramanian, R., The Hindu Attitude to Knowledge and Nature
- Charon, Jean E., Contribution of East and West to Spirit-Science Unification
- de Silva, Padmasiri, The Distance Between the Laboratory and Monastery
- Dy, Manuel B., Jr., Does the West Need the East
- Gerholm, Tor Ragnar, The Holy Nothing Versus the Quincunx of Knowlege, Is there a Reconciliation
- Gooding, David, Science As a Spiritual Path, Michael Faraday’s Apprenticeship
- Lagmay, Alfred V., Science and the Siddharta, Confluence in Two Differing World Views
- Moutsopoulos, Evanghelos, Science and Spirit, The Platonic Model
- Murray, Priscilla, Scientific Knowledge and Spiritual Understanding
- Nagasaka, Francis G., Physics and Natural History
- Quadens, Olga, Brain Function and Culture
- Sharpe, R.W., Lost Science
- Shimmyo, Theodore T., A New Metaphysics in Support of Contemporary Physics, East-West Contributions
- Sudahshan, E.C.G., Is Modern Science Closer to Religion
Discussion: