the first European festival on creativity

2015 Programme

Event #35

James R. Flynn, Armando Massarenti

Without an alibi: a voyage across life’s greatest questions

Always alert to the most intense and controversial issues in public debate, the most authoritative expert on the psychology of living intelligence, James R. Flynn, considers life’s great questions, along with philosopher and epistemologist Armando Massarenti, setting off from the debate on global warming. Have we reached the point of no return? Will human populations manage to survive in hostile climates? Inciting the public to learn to question the fixed and unproductive convictions that hinder our reasoning, Flynn discusses the existence of free will, the possibility of creating a just society and the true nature of human ideals, leaving each person free to imagine his or her own answers, for «the most important form of freedom one can enjoy is freedom of thought».

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James R. Flynn

is an honorary professor at the University of Otago, New Zeland. His name is linked to the discovery that intelligence quotients (IQ) increased during the 20th century, and to the debate surrounding the role of genetic and environmental components in the development of intelligence. The books he has published in Italy are Osa pensare. Venti concetti per capire criticamente e apprezzare la modernità (Mondadori Education, 2013), Senza alibi. Il cambiamento climatico: impedire la catastrofe (Bollati Boringhieri, 2015) and Destino e filosofia. Un viaggio tra le grandi domande della vita (Mondadori Education, 2015).

Armando Massarenti

a journalist and philosopher, directs the cultural insert Il Sole 24 Ore Domenica. He also directs the book series «Scienza e filosofia» for Mondadori Università. His books include: Il lancio del Nano (2006), Dizionario delle idee non comuni (2011), Istruzioni per rendersi felici (2014), all published by Guanda.

2015 Programme

Event #35

James R. Flynn, Armando Massarenti

Without an alibi: a voyage across life’s greatest questions

Augustus: the political ethics of a republican monarch

The secret ingredient of life

An act of humanity to be performed

Anna Bonaiuto reads Elena Ferrante

A slow story

The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism

Beyond the boundaries of Babel

Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning

How the sense of Us is born: from We-go to Ego

Generation 2.0

We're the Africans

In my name

Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.

The mountain and silence

In praise of the best student in class

Mothers

Mothers

The space we live in is nothing but an extension of our minds

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Mathematics, algorithms and freedom

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Oedipus’ eyes and Plato’s complex

Can books change the world?

LA LA LA. When there is no answer

The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons

Returning to the garden

Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running

Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible

“Borderline” kids meet the adult world

A painting for freedom

Cruciverba volant (unbuckle your seatbelts)

Magic acts of vision

Theatres of memory between enchantment and utopia

Our careers as readers

The aviator’s tale

Into the wild