Human Beings: philosophical, theological and scientific perspectives
Gorizia Castle, Gorizia, Italy  
October 2th – 5th 2008

Gorizia, Aula Magna - Via Alviano 18
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Session 1

Chair: John Hedley Brooke

9.00-9.30 Welcoming Remarks:
Ettore Romoli, Mayor of Gorizia
Dino De Antoni, Archbishop of Gorizia
PierGiorgio Gabassi, Head of the Polo Didattico e Culturale dell'Università di Trieste a Gorizia
Antonio Russo, President of the Organizing Committee

9,30-10,30 Anthony Kenny
Human Beings

10,30-10,50 Coffee break

10,50-11,20 William Carroll
Scientific Revolution and the Recovery of Nature and Human Nature

11,20-11,50 Miklos Vetö
The concept of Human Being

11,50-12,20 Angelo Campodonico
How to speak nowadays of Human nature?

12,20-12,50 Vincent Aucante
Descartes, alterity and communities

12,50-13-20 Antonio Russo
Aristoteles account on Human nature: Kenny and Brentano

13,30 Lunch

Gorizia, Aula Magna - Via Alviano 18
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Session 2

Chair: Fiachra Long

16,00-16,30 Simone D’Agostino
Aristotele’s Man: Kenny and Blondel

16,30-17,00 Margaret YEE
What does it means to be human? Kenny vs. Farrer

17,00-17,30 Santiago Sia
Human Being and Metaphysical Thinking

17,30-17,50 Coffee break

17,50–18,20 Pirooz Fatoorchi
Human Nature in Avicenna: Points of contact with Kenny

18,20-19,00 Anthony Kenny

19,30 Dinner

Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Friday, October 3, 2008
Session 3

Chair: Marijan Sunjic

9,00-10,00  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

11,00-11,20 Coffee break

11,20-11,50 Pascual F.Martinez-Freire,
What is peculiar to Human beings is not reason but free volition

11,50-12,20 Michel Ghins
Some Thoughts on Kenny and Cole Turner

12,20-13,00 Laurie Zoloth
What’s  A Heaven For? Religion and Science in Emerging Research.
Response to Cole -Turner

13,30 Lunch

Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Friday, October 3, 2008
Session 4

Chair: Gregor Nickel

16,00-16,30 Antonio Malo
Rationality as Relationship in Human Persons

16,30-17,00 Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam
Diverse conceptions of Human being
for human-nature relationship

17,00-17,30 David Grumett
Creating Humanity in a Genetic Age

17,30-17, 50 Coffee break

17,50-18,20 Ouyang Kang
Multiple perspective of Human being

18,20-19,00 Ronald Cole-Turner

19,30 Dinner

Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Session 5

Chair: Micheal Howlett

9,00-10,00 Eberhard Schockenhoff
Personsein und Menschsein

10,00-10,30 Alexei Chernyakov
Human Being: Subject or hypostasis

10,30- 11,00 Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
Human Being in the Age of Science

11,00-11,20 Coffee break

11,20- 11,50 Roberto Poli
The Multilayered Nature of Person

11,50- 12,20 Volker Sommer
Are Apes Human? Or Are Humans Apes?

12,20-12,50 Peter Hodgson
Scientific Research as a Human Activity

13,30 Lunch

Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Session 6

Chair: Miklos Vetö/Jean-François de Raymond

16,00- 16,30 Jim 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 Chantal Delsol
L’humanisme traqué

17,30-17,50 Coffee break

17,50-18,20 Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Human Nature Departmentalised – a Critique

18,20-19,00 Eberhard Schockenhoff

19,30 Dinner

Gorizia, Gorizia Castle
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Session 7

9,00- 10,30 - Public Forum:

Chair: Laurie Zoloth
Human Beings, Philosophical, Theological and Scientific perspectives: 3 Questions to be put to a panel of invited academics, made up of (i) scientists (ii) theologians (iii) philosophers
Anthony Kenny; Ronald Cole-Turner; Eberhard Schockenhoff; Jim Salmon; Volker Sommer

10,30-10,50
Closing Reflections: John Hedley Brooke

10, 50-11,00
Closing Address: Antonio Russo

11,30- 22,00 Free time, lunch and dinner in Cividale

http://www.cividale.com/foto/foto_start.asp?IDtipo=6
and surroundings

  
Further details will be announced on the site http://www.SophiaEuropa.net in due course. 
Prof. DDR. Antonio RUSSO
Dipartimento di Filosofia
Via Androna Campo Marzio, 1034123 Trieste
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