Agenda
Human Beings:
Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives
October 2-5, 2008 - Gorizia, Italy
Gorizia, Aula Magna - Via Alviano 18
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Session 1
Chair: John Hedley Brooke
9,00-9,45 a.m Welcoming Remarks:
Ettore Romoli, Mayor of Gorizia
Dino De Antoni, Archbishop of Gorizia
Franco Obizzi, Pesident of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Gorizia
PierGiorgio Gabassi, Head of the Polo Didattico e Culturale dell'Università di Trieste a Gorizia
Cristina Benussi, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Trieste
Antonio Russo, President of the Organizing Committee
9,45-10,45 Anthony Kenny
Human Beings
10,45-11,15 Coffee break
11,15-11,45 William Carroll
Scientific Revolution and the Recovery of Nature and Human Nature
11,45-12,15 Miklos Vetö
The concept of Human Being
12,15-12,45 Angelo Campodonico
How to speak nowadays of Human nature?
13,15 Lunch
Gorizia, Aula Magna - Via Alviano 18
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Session 2
Chair: Fiachra Long
16,00-16,30 p.m. Vincent Aucante
Descartes, alterity, communities
16,30-17,00 Margaret YEE
What does it means to be human? Contrasting Kenny with Farrer
17,00-17,30 Santiago Sia
Human Being and Metaphysical Thinking
17,30-18,00 Coffee break
18,00–18,45 Anthony Kenny
20,00 Conference Dinner, Gorizia Castle
Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Friday, October 3, 2008
Session 3
Chair: Marijan Sunjic
9,00-10,00 a.m. Ronald Cole-Turner
Humanity in the Laboratory: Chimeric Brains and Human Minds
10,00-10,30 Kevin Seybold
Biological and Psychological Perspectives on Human Spirituality
10,30-11,00 Harald Walach
Generalised Entanglement. A Basis for a Naturalistic Ethics?
A Comment on Cole-Turner’s Keynote
11,00-11,30 Coffee break
11,30-12,00 Pascual F.Martinez-Freire,
What is peculiar to Human beings is not reason but free volition
12,00-12,30 Michel Ghins
Some Thoughts on Kenny and Cole Turner
12,30-13,00 Ouyang Kang
Multiple Perspective of Human being
13,15 Lunch
Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Friday, October 3, 2008
Session 4
Chair: Gregor Nickel
16,00-16,30 p.m. Laurie Zoloth
What’s A Heaven For? Religion and Science in Emerging Research.
Response to Cole -Turner
16,30-17,00 Antonio Malo
Rationality as Relationship in Human Persons
17,00-17,30 Chantal Delsol
L'humanisme traqué
17,30-18,00 Coffee break
18,00-18,45 Ronald Cole-Turner
19,30 Dinner
Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Session 5
Chair: Michael Howlett
9,00-10,00 a.m. Eberhard Schockenhoff
Personsein und Menschsein
10,00-10,30 Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam
Diverse conceptions of Human being for human-nature relationship
10,30- 11,00 Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
Human Being in the Age of Science
11,00-11,30 Coffee break
11,30- 12,00 David Grumett
Creating Humanity in a Genetic Age
12,00- 12,30 Volker Sommer
Are Apes Human? Or Are Humans Apes?
12,30-13,00 Peter Hodgson
Scientific Research as a Human Activity
13,15 Lunch
Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Session 6
Chair: Miklos Vetö/Jean-François de Raymond
16,00- 16,30 p.m. James Salmon
Rethinking Aristotle’s Principles in an Evolutionary Culture
16, 30-17,00 Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron
Le sens du passé comme preuve de la spiritualité de l’homme
17,00-17,30 Pirooz fatoorchi
Human nature in Avicenna: Points of contacts with Kenny
17,30-18,00 Coffee break
18,00-18,45 Eberhard Schockenhoff
19,30 Dinner
Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Session 7
Chair: Max Seckler
9,00- 10,00 a.m.
Stanley L. Jaki
The shadows of the human soul
10,00 - 10, 50
Public Forum:
Chair: Laurie Zoloth
Human Beings, Philosophical, Theological and Scientific perspectives: a panel of invited academics, made up of (i) scientists (ii) theologians (iii) philosophers
Anthony Kenny; Ronald Cole-Turner; Eberhard Schockenhoff
10,50-11,20
Closing Reflections:
John Hedley Brooke
11,20-11,30
Closing Address:
Antonio Russo
11,30 - 21,00
Free time, lunch and dinner in Cividale and surrounding
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