Ervin Laszlo – Filósofo, teórico integral y pianista clásico

Dos veces nominado para el Premio Nobel de la Paz, ha escrito más de 70 libros que han sido traducidos a 19 idiomas, y ha publicado más de 400 artículos y trabajos de investigación, entre ellos seis volúmenes de grabaciones de piano.

Fundador de la Filosofía de Sistemas y Teoría de la Evolución General, fundador y director del Grupo de Investigación de la Evolución General y presidente de la Sociedad Internacional para las Ciencias de Sistemas.

Investigador para las universidades de Yale y Princeton, ha impartido cátedras de Filosofía, Ciencias de Sistemas y Ciencias de Futuros en las Universidades de Houston, Estado de Portland e Indiana, así como la Universidad de Northwestern y la Universidad Estatal de Nueva York.

Profesor invitado en varias universidades de Europa y el Lejano Oriente.

Director del programa para el Instituto de las Naciones Unidas para Formación Profesional e Investigaciones (UNITAR). En 1999 fue fue reconocido como Doctor Honorario por el Instituto Canadiense Internacional de Estudios Avanzados en Investigación de Sistemas y Cibernética.

Asesor de la Directora General de la UNESCO, embajador del Consejo Internacional de Delfos, miembro de la Academia Internacional de Ciencias, la Academia Mundial de las Artes y las Ciencias y la Academia Internacional de Filosofía.

Hungary
Philosopher

Systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

He is the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.

His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.