Augusto Castro: “The challenge of thinking differently”
The Latin American Council of Social Sciences invites you to the presentation of the book “The challenge of a different way of thinking. Thought, society and nature” by Professor Augusto Castro of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
The work takes on the challenge of thinking from the complexity and diversity that are present in all areas of human activity, starting from an ethical concern for society, the environment and living beings.
Friday, May 3 – 18 p.m.
At the CLACSO headquarters: Estados Unidos 1168, City of Buenos Aires.
Professor Castro will be accompanied by:
Federico Arnillas Lafert: President of the Roundtable for the Fight against Poverty.
Alejandro Diez Hurtado: Head of the Department of Social Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
The first 20 people to arrive will receive a free copy of the book.
Augusto Castro
He studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he obtained his Bachelor's, Licentiate, and Master's degrees in Philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he was a visiting professor in the Department of Latin American Studies for five years.
He is currently a Principal Professor in the Academic Department of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he holds the position of director of the Institute of Sciences of Nature, Territory and Renewable Energies (INTE – PUCP).
He is Vice-President of the Ethics Committee for Research in Humans and Animals at the same university.
In addition, at CLACSO he is a member of the Steering Committee and Coordinator of the Network of Postgraduate Programs in Environment and Society.
He has been Director of Extension at the Riva-Agüero Institute and director of the Center for Sociological, Economic, Political and Anthropological Research (CISEPA-PUCP).
Among his publications related to the themes of modernity and philosophy in Peru, as well as ethics and the environment, are: RIO + 20 Challenges and Perspectives (2015); Rebuilding and Educating: Tasks of the Nation. 1885-1905 and An Education to Re-Create the Country. 1905-1930, volumes VII and VIII respectively of the Peruvian Educational Thought Collection (2013); Corporate Social Responsibility: The Antamina Case (2012); The Multiplication of Vulnerabilities. Climate Change and Poverty. (2011); Philosophy Among Us. Five Centuries of Philosophy in Peru (2009); The Challenge of Differences. A Reflection on the Modern State in Peru (2008); Philosophy and Politics in Peru. A Study of the Thought of Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, José Carlos Mariátegui and Víctor Andrés Belaunde (2006); Philosophy and Society in Peru (2003); The Good Hawk Hides the Claw: Reflections on Japanese Modernity (2002); and Peru, a Modern Project (1993), among other books and articles.
