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Conference Agenda
NOTE: This agenda is subject to change.
Sunday, 13 July, 2008 | Monday, 14 July, 2008 | Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 | Wednesday, 16 July, 2008
Agenda also available in block schedule format.
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Event |
Location |
7:30 - 8:00 AM |
Registration |
Hotel Husa Princessa |
8:00 AM |
Busses load
and travel to Toledo |
Hotel Husa Princessa |
10:30 AM |
Interfaith Welcome
Pastor Mariano Blázquez
César García Magán
Imam Riay Tatary
Rabbi Haim Zukerwar
Toledo Lecture
Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University
Toledo When It Was the Center of the World
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Sinagoga del Tránsito/Museo Sefardi
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12:00 - 5:00 PM |
Free Time |
Toledo |
5:00 - 7:00 PM |
Lecture
George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town
On Being Human in the Universe: The Relations between Intellect, Emotion, Values, and Understanding
Interfaith Panel in Response to Lecture
Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez
Jean-Arnold de Clermont
Jacques Laredo
Imam Riay Tatary |
Iglesia de los Jesuitas de Toledo
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7:00 PM |
Busses Load for Dinner at Olrey and
Return to Madrid |
Toledo |
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9:00 - 10:45 AM |
Welcoming Remarks
Rector of Comillas
Javier Leach, Director, Cátedra de Ciencia, Tecnología y Religión
Edward Devinney, President of Metanexus Institute
Eric Weislogel, Executive Director of Metanexus Institute
David Schrader, Executive Director of APA |
Aula Magna
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10:45-11:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
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11:15 AM - 1:00 PM |
Featured Session: Introduction to Mini-Conference on "Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality"
Basarab Nicolescu, International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies(CIRET)
The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood
Roy Clouser, The College of New Jersey
The Nature & Ground of Religious Belief |
Aula Magna
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Featured Session: Fundación Xavier Zubiri—”Towards a New Human Identity"
Thomas B. Fowler, Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America
Introduction to the Philosophy of Xavier Zubiri
Diego Gracia Guillén, The Xavier Zubiri Foundation
Razones Sobre Dios
Carlos Pose, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
On the Essence
Enzo Solari, Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile)
Fenomenología y Analítica de la Sensibilidad: Algunos Argumentos
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Sala de Conferencias |
1:00-3:15 PM |
Lunch A
Lunch B |
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3:15 - 5:00 PM |
Relationality and the Self I
Rocco Gangle, Endicott College
Spinoza, Language, and Relational Identity
John A. Teske, Elizabethtown College
Recoupling Individuality: Relational Selves and Redemptive Relationships
Judith A. Toronchuk, Trinity Western University
George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town
Human Becoming: Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Affective Social Behaviour
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Aula Magna
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On the Person (Spanish)
Lucio Florio, Fundación Diálogo entre Ciencia y Religión
The Historic Person as the Ultimate Knower
Óscar Castro Garcia, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona
What Am I?: A Brief Transdisciplinary Meeting about the Intimate Experience of the Numinous
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Sala de Conferencias
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Mathematics & Religion
Lidia Joanna Obojska, University of Podlasie
Judith Marie Povilus, Sophia Association of Cultural Studies
From the Total Gift of Self to a New Relational View of Reality; From a Mystical Insight to the Foundations of Mathematics: A Transdisciplinary Approach
Javier Leach, Director, Cátedra de Ciencia, Tecnología y Religión, Universidad Pontificia
Comillas Madrid
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Science and Religion: Towards Basing Inter-Religious Dialogue on Rational Grounds
P. Douglas Kindschi, Grand Valley State University
Chastened Realism: Mathematics as a Model for Theology
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Sala Gª Polavieja
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Mini-Conference: Non-Reduction and the Human Sciences
James Skillen, The Center for Public Justice
The Necessity of a Non-Reductionist Science of Politics
Adolfo García de la Sienra Guajardo,Veracruzana University The Economic Sphere
Egbert Schuurman, University of Wageningen
The Ethics of Responsibility as a Comprehensive Approach: An Application to the
Ethics of Technology
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Aula Magna (ICAI)
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5:00 - 6:45 PM |
Featured Session with Kathy Duffy and V. V. Raman
Kathy Duffy, Chestnut Hill College
The Role of Imagery, Particularly Scientific Imagery, in Transdisciplinary Dialogue
V. V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Self: Scientific and Religious Perspectives
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Aula Magna
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Featured Session – On Compassion
Anindita Balslev, University of Copenhagen
Solomon Katz, University of Pennsylvania
F.
LeRon Shults, University of Agder
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Sala de Conferencias
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Mini-Conference: Non-Reduction, Levels, and Transdisciplinarity
John van Breda, University of Stellenbosch
Exploring Non-Reductionism and Levels of Reality: On the Importance of the Non-Separability of Discontinuity and Continuity of the Different Levels of Reality
Cecilia Dockendorff, Fundación SOLES
The Long Way from Non-Reductionism to Transdisciplinarity: Critical Questions
about Levels of Reality and the Constitution of Human Beings
Renata T. S. Lemos, University of Santa Catarina
Lucia Santaella, São Paulo Catholic University (Pucsp)
Levels of Convergence
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Aula Magna (ICAI)
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6:45- 7:15 |
Break |
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7:15 - 9:00 PM
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Problems of the Self
Donavan Paul Rocher, Concordia University
'Serving' the Self-Actualizing Subject in Global Culture
Oare' Dozier-Henry, Florida A&M University
Technology Rx: Yoruba Ontology and the African Worldview
Teresa Urszula Klimowicz, Maria Curie - Sklodowska University of Lublin
Rene Girard and the Genealogy of Consumerism |
Aula Magna
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Spirituality, Science, & Religion
Rabbi Haim David Zukerwar, The Jewish World Explorium
Spiritual Structure of Reality
Ioan Chirila, University Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca
Subject, Self and Soul—Biblical Anthropological Approaches and Orthodox Exegesis: A Possible Perspective for a Transdisciplinary Discourse
Alena Govorounova, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture at Nanzan University, Japan
Revelatory Spirituality and Science—An Oxymoron? Examining Revelatory Transcendental Discourses on Self and Personhood at the Intersections of Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
Abdul Majid, HSSRD and FIRST-Forum for Interaction of Religion, Science and Technology
Peaceful Co-Existence of Various Cultures and Religions: An Islamic Perspective
with Special Reference to Spain
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Sala de Conferencias
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Relationality and the Self II
Arno Wouters, Radboud University Nijmegen
Maureen Sie, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Brain, Science, and Personal Responsibility: What is the Problem?
Alfredo Dinis, Faculty of Philosophy of Braga (Portugal)
Self (and) Consciousness from the Second Person Perspective |
Sala Gª Polavieja
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Neuroscience, Self, & Spirituality
Stefan Bauberger, Hochschule für Philosophie München
Personhood or Non-Self?: Christian and Buddhist Approach to the Self in the Context of Modern Scientific Results
Andrea Hollingsworth, Loyola University Chicago
Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology for a Spirituality of Compassion
Anne L. C. Runehov, Copenhagen University
Neuroscientific Research on the Self: A Case for Panentheism?
Christopher Durante, McGill University
The Structure of Selves: The Nature of Selfhood and the Schizophrenic Experience
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Aula Magna (ICAI) |
9:00 PM |
Dinner on your own & Free time |
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9:00 - 10:45 AM
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Sophia Iberia Session
Jens Degett, EAGLES (European Action on Global Life Sciences)
Christine Heller, Director, Sophia Iberia
Javier Leach, Director, Cátedra de Ciencia, Tecnología y Religión
Javier Monserrat, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid
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Sala de Conferencias
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Mini-Conference: Understanding Levels
William A. Mathews, Milltown Institute
Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View
Carlo Scognamiglio, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Human Being and Non-Reductionist Conceptions of Determination
Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, Monastery of All Saints of North America
Nature and Hypostasis: An Orthodox Christian Response to Reductionism
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Aula Magna (ICAI) |
10:45 - 11:15 AM
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Coffee Break |
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11:15 AM - 1:00 PM |
Featured Session - On Wisdom
Cecilia Deane-Drummond, University College Chester
What is Human Wisdom? An Interrogation of Posthuman Futures in Transhuman Evolutionary Discourse
Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin
Ethics & the Quest for Wisdom |
Aula Magna
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Featured Session with Stanley Jaki and Lucia Guerra-Menendez
Stanley Jaki, Seton Hall University
The Mind and Its Now
Lucia Guerra-Menendez, University of San Pablo CEU (Madrid)
Stanley Jaki, Seton Hall University
Pragmatism Then and Now
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Sala de Conferencias
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Mini-Conference:
Matter and Life
Danie Strauss, University of the Free State
The Significance of a Non-Reductionist Ontology for the Disciplines of Mathematics
and Physics–an Historical and Systematic Analysis
Riccardo Manzotti, Universita IULM- Milano
The Relational Nature of the Physical World as a Foundation for the Conscious Mind
Ingolf Schmid-Tannwald, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Fertilisation
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Aula Magna (ICAI) |
1:00-3:15 PM |
Lunch A
Lunch B |
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3:15 - 5:00 PM |
Continental Philosophy and Issues of Self
Hsiao-Lan Hu, Temple University
A Feminist Exegesis of Non-Self: On Classical Buddhist Understanding of Personhood and Identity
Deena M. Lin, Claremont Graduate University
Providing Meaning to the Human Experience in Spite of Epistemic Distance
Trisha MaryEllen Famisaran, Claremont Graduate University
Identity Politics and the Challenge of Representation |
Aula Magna
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Psychoanalysis, the Good, & the Unconscious
Howard S. Baker, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Scott Kent Jones, Princeton Theological Seminary
Adding a Spiritual Dimension to the Biopsychosocial Model: Psychoanalysis, Kohut, Schleiermacher and Buber
Felicity Brock Kelcourse, Christian Theological Seminary
A Phenomenology of Self, Psyche, and Soul: What Can We Learn from a Name?
Aaron Kheriaty, University of California, Irvine
God and the Unconscious
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Sala de Conferencias
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Polanyi & Dooyeweerd
Neil D. Broom, University of Auckland
Does Nature Suggest Transcendence?
Kamaran Fathulla, The University of Northampton
Dannie Jost, Tensoriana
Quantum Humanism: The Reality of the Atom and the Mind Through a Dooyeweerdian Lens
Johannes Corrodi Katzenstein, University of Zürich, Switzerland
H. Dooyeweerd and E. Voegelin on Self, Society, and Transcendence
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Sala Gª Polavieja
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Mini-Conference:
Mind and Spirit
Liliana Albertazzi, Università degli Studi di Trento
Why Perception Is Not Reducible to Physics?
Steven Horst, Wesleyan University
Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science
Tommaso Bolognesi, Italian National Research Council (CNR) at Pisa
Fabio Caporali, Università degli Studi di Tuscia
Ludovico Galleni, Università di Pisa
Silvana Procacci, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Aurelio Rizzacasa, Università degli Studi di Perugia
Is There a Hierarchical Consciousness? Individual, Social and Cosmic Consciousness |
Aula Magna (ICAI) |
5:00 - 6:45 PM |
Recourse to Ricoeur
William Grassie, Founder Metanexus Institute
The Storied Nature of Self, Society, and Cosmos
Sara Margarida de Matos Roma Fernandes, Catholic University of Lisbon
Ethical and Aesthetical Identity - an Approach to Paul Ricoeur's Thought
Michael T. H. Wong, Monash University
Hermeneutics, Neuroscience, and Theological Anthropology - A New Way of Talking About Human Experience |
Aula Magna
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Cosmos, Theos, Andros
Lucia Guerra-Menendez, University of San Pablo CEU (Madrid)
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The Inalienable Right to Defend Human Life and Dignity: A Scientific Perspective
Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Lucia Guerra-Menendez, University of San Pablo CEU (Madrid)
Singular Moments of Cosmic History
Emmanuel M. Carreira, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid
The Human Person: Nature, Ethical and Logical Viewpoints
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Sala de Conferencias |
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Wisdom & Virtue: Discernment, Problem-Solving, and Expertise
James Meredith Day, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Cognitive Complexity, Human Development, and Religious Influence in Moral Problem-Solving: Empirical Evidence and some Implications for Human Evolution
Gary J. Boelhower, The College of St. Scholastica
The Possibility of Practical Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary Model for Discernment
Augustus E. Jordan, Middlebury College
Before Virtue: Ethics as Evolutionary Expertise
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Sala Gª Polavieja
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Mini-Conference:
What Next?
Roberto Poli, Università degli Studi di Trento
Towards an Age of Synthesis (introductory lecture to debate)
Debate with all Participants
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Aula Magna (ICAI) |
6:45 - 7:15 PM
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Break
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7:15 - 7:45 PM |
Group Picture |
Front steps of Comillas |
7:45 - 9:00 PM |
Plenary Session with Norbert Samuelson
Norbert Samuelson, Metanexus Senior Fellow
Light and Enlightenment
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Aula Magna |
9:00 PM |
Dinner on your own & Free time |
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9:00 - 10:45 AM |
Postmodern Metaphysics
André Ong, Bethel Theological Seminary West
The Possibility of a Post-Modern Metaphysics of the Human Person: The Thomistic-Phenomenology of Karol Wojtyta/Pope John Paul II
Joseph Andrew Bracken, Xavier University
Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Intersubjectivity: Toward a Post-Modern Metaphysics
Thomas B. Fowler, Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America
Personal Causality and the Science/Religion Dialogue
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Aula Magna
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Self & Soul I
Peter Marinkovic, University of Munich
Holistic Concepts of the Soul in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Gregory N. Derry, Loyola College in Maryland
The Role of Self and Subject in H. Høffding's Approach to Knowledge and Being
Silvio Spiri, "Tor Vergata" University in Rome
The Soul-Body Problem in Rosmini's Psychology
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Sala de Conferencias
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Integrating Self & Health
Martin Dowson, Australian College of Ministries
Stuart Devenish, Australian College of Ministries
Towards an Integrated and Integrating Model of the Self: Psychological and Phenomenological Perspectives
Patricia Helen Bennett, Oxford Brookes University
Towards a Neurotheology of Health: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Personal Relatedness, Emergence and PNI Function
Paula S. Derry, Paula Derry Enterprises in Health Psychology
Preconditions for Transdisciplinary Health Sciences
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Sala Gª Polavieja |
10:45 - 11:15 AM |
Coffee Break |
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11:15 AM - 1:00 PM |
Featured Session with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and William Chittick
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University
Jewish Notions of Personhood: Rabbinic, Philosophical, and Kabbalistic
William Chittick, SUNY Stony Brook
The Recovery of Human Nature |
Aula Magna
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Featured Session - Soul and Free Will
Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary
Nonreductive Physicalism and Free Will
Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin
Free Will & Selfhood: New Directions for an Ancient Problem
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Sala de Conferencias |
1:00 - 3:15 PM |
Lunch A
Lunch B |
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3:15 - 5:00 PM |
Metaphysics of the Soul
Robert Anthony Delfino, St. John's University
Christian Physicalism and Personal Identity
Paul Joseph Flaman, St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta
The Human Soul: A Catholic Theological Response to Non-Reductive Physicalism
Georg Gasser, Universität Innsbruck
Matthias Stefan, Universität Innsbruck
Daniel Wehinger, Universität Innsbruck
Subjects Experiencing the World |
Aula Magna
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Evolution
Paul Jerome Croce, Stetson University
A Future-Oriented Teleology: Evolutionary Biology, Jamesian Philosophical Psychology, and Sufficient Design
Barak Morgan, University of Cape Town
Getting Scientific With Religion: A Darwinian Solution . . . Or Not?
Johannes Seidel, Hochschule für Philosophie München
Teilhard's Concept of Evolution
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Sala de Conferencias
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Self & Soul II
Juan Fernando Sellés, Universidad de Navarra
Can the Human Person Reach Fulfillment Through the Self Alone?
Julio Moreno-Dávila, Universitá Pontificia Regina Apostolorum
Personhood, Logos, and Artificial Intelligence
Chryssi Sidiropoulou, Bogazici University
A Soul in Space and Time: What Kind of Unique Self?
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Sala Gª Polavieja |
5:00 - 6:45 PM |
Bioethics and the Person
Dirk Solies, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz
The Crisis of Personhood: Why We Need to Broaden Our View
Joseph Wang, Universität Innsbruck
'Person', 'Personal Property', and 'Personal Act': How to Use Philosophical Notions
Ronald Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Technology and Eschatology: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on the Transformation of Human Nature
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Aula Magna
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Philosophy/Theology/Anthropology
André Ong, Bethel Theological Seminary West
A Dialectical Anthropology of Concrete Totality: A Methodological Framework for Understanding the Unified Totality of the Human Person
Juan A. García González, University of Málaga
Juan José Padial Benticuaga, University of Málaga
The Transcendental Anthropology of Leonardo Polo: The Upper Dualities of Human Person
Edward Joseph Alam, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Soul Reflections: Apes, Anthropology, and Aristotle
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Sala de Conferencias |
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Self & Soul III
John McSweeney, Diocese of Cork & Ross
The Singularity of Self in the Later Foucault: Reconsidering the End(s) of Poststructuralist Thought
Jonathan Weidenbaum, Berkeley College
You Have to Take It With You: The Embodied Nature of the Religious Self
Stefán Valdemar Snaevarr, Lillehammer University College
Self in Emotional Space
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Sala Gª Polavieja |
6:45 - 7:15 PM |
Break |
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7:15 - 9:00 PM |
Plenary Session with Tariq Ramadan and Antje Jackelen
The Problem of European Identity
Tariq Ramadan, Faculty of Theology at Oxford
Antje Jackelen, Bishop of Lund, Sweden
The Problem of European Identity
William Grassie, Founder Metanexus Institute
Moderator
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Aula Magna |
9:00 PM |
Closing Banquet
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Hotel Husa Princessa |
Thank you to all participants! We hope to see you again next year!
page last updated 6/30/2008
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