The Sophia-Iberia in Europe Project endeavors to increase integration and understanding of the long philosophical and theological traditions in Spain and Portugal in the stream of European and international thought. Sophia-Iberia is creating an area open to free multidisciplinary participation in scientific and philosophic reflection on human evolution oriented towards recent metaphysical issues. The session will present the work of this important and innovative initiative, directed by this conference's co-hosts. More information can be found at http://www.upcomillas.es/sophiaiberia/#.
Javier Leach is a Jesuit priest and has been director of the Metanexus Local Societies Initiative supported Chair of Science, Technology, and Religion at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas since its creation in 2003. Currently, he is also professor at the School of Computing of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 1961-1965, he studied philosophy at the Facultad Pontificia San Francisco de Borja in Barcelona. From 1965-1970, he studied mathematics at the School of Mathematics, Universidad de Zaragoza. From 1970-1973, he studied theology at the Philosophisch-theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). In 1977, he obtained the title of Doctor in Mathematics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Since 1987, he has been professor at the Universidad Complutense in the area of computer languages and systems. Among other subjects, he has given undergraduate courses on discrete mathematics, logic, logical programming, functional programming, and artificial intelligence. He has given doctoral courses on automatic demonstration, functional programming, methods for the automation of demonstrations in first order logic, and demonstrators of theorems for transitive relations.