3-day conference. Participants: Bruce Ames, Ron Bailey, Jim Chatters, Napoleon Chagnon, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Jonathan Entine, Mike Fitzpatrick, Frank Furedi, Sarah Glazer, Joseph Ledoux, Kenan Malik, Steven Pinker, Ullica Segerstrale. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs in association with the Institute of Ideas in London as part of the British Council and Foreign Commonwealth Office festival "UKinNY."

Topics include: What Is It To Be Human?; Who's Afraid of Science?; Folklore vs. Scientific Lore; The Future of Progress; The Ethics of Progress; Local Wisdom vs. Scientific Universalism; Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Their Limitations; and Is the Future Human?

Inscription: Science, Knowledge, Humanity / 10/26-28/01.