Conference Agenda

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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.

Sunday, 13 July, 2008
Time	Event
9:00 - 10:00AM	Bus to Toledo
10:30 AM - 12:00 AM	Synagogue Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain Interfaith Prayer directed by Representatives of Jewish, Evangelical, Catholic, and Muslim Faiths
12:00 - 5:30 PM	Free Time in Toledo
5:30 - 7:30 PM	Jesuit Church George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town Interfaith Panel in Response to George Ellis Talk
8:00 - 10:00 PM	Tapas Reception
10:30 - 11:30 PM	Return Bus to Madrid

Monday, 14 July, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM	Welcoming Remarks Rector of Comillas Edward Devinney, President of Metanexus Institute George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town
10:45-11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM	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
1:00-3:00 PM	Lunch
3:00 - 4:45 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 Mathematics & Religion Judith Marie Povilus, Sophia Association of Cultural Studies Lidia Joanna Obojska, University of Podlasie 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, Universidad Complutense 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 On the Person (Spanish) Lucio Florio, Fundación Diálogo entre Ciencia y Religión The Historic Person as the Ultimate Knower Josep Corcó, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Josep Olives Puig, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya Identity and Identities Alberto Ciria, Instituto Filosófico Reinhard Lauth Self and Personal Being: The Temptation of a Usurpation - Parables of the Human Individual and Collective History Óscar Castro Garcia, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona What Am I?: A Brief Transdisciplinary Meeting about the Intimate Experience of the Numinous Mini-Conference: Non-Reduction and the Human Sciences James Skillen, The Center for Public Justice Why Politics Can’t Be Reduced to Power, Behavior, Choice, or Law Adolfo Garcia Sienra, Universidad Veracruzana A Non-Reductionist Approach to Economics Egbert Schuurman, University of Wageningen The Ethics of Responsibility as a Comprehensive Approach
4:45 - 5:15	Coffee Break
5:15 - 7:00 PM	Featured Session with Kathy Duffy and V. V. Raman Kathy Duffy, Chestnut Hill College V. V. Raman, Rochester Institute of Technology The Self and Now Stanley Jaki, Seton Hall University Emmanuel M. Carreira, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Lucia Guerra Menendez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Featured Session with Hermann Häring Hermann Häring Mini-Conference: Non-Reduction, Levels, and Transdisciplinarity John van Breda, University of Stellenbosch Mark Swilling, University of Stellenbosch 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 Renata T. S. Lemos, University of Santa Catarina Levels of Convergence Archbishop Lazar Puhalo of Ottawa (Orthodox Church in America, retired) Nature and Hypostasis: An Orthodox Christian Response to Reductionism
7:00 - 7:15	Coffee Break
7:15 - 9:00 PM	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 Problems of the Self Donovan 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 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
9:00 PM	Dinner

Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM	Sophia Iberia Session Christine Heller, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid Javier Leach Albert, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid Javier Monserrat, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid Mini-Conference:  Understanding Levels William A. Mathews, Milltown Institute Redefining Science in an Emergentist World View Jean Staune, Université Interdisciplinaire du Paris Is the Brain an iPod or a Radio? Carlo Scognamiglio, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Human Being and Non-Reductionist Conceptions of Determination
10:45 - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM	Featured Session - On Wisdom (Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM) Cecilia Deane-Drummond, University College Chester Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin Ethics & the Quest for Wisdom: Ethical Reflections After Modernity Featured Session - On Compassion (Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM) LeRon Shults, Universitetet i Agder Mini-Conference:  Matter and Life Danie Strauss, University of the Free State The Significance of Non-Reduction for Math & Physics 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
1:00-3:00 PM	Lunch
3:00 - 4:45 PM	Love & Transdisciplinarity Luiza Beth Nunes Alonso, Brasília Catholic University How Can We Go Beyond a Disciplinary Approach and Build a More Satisfactory Perspective of Knowledge that is Concerned with Both the Theoretical and the Practical Level? Argyris Nicolaidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Selfhood - Otherhood and Agapastic Dynamics Ioan Chirila, "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Subject, Self, and Soul: Biblical Anthropological Approaches and Orthodox Exegesis - A Possible Perspective for a Transdisciplinary Discourse 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 Polanyi & Dooyeweerd Neil D. Broom, University of Auckland Does Nature Suggest Transcendence? Elisabeth M. (Min Young) Yang, Talbot School of Theology Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical View of Personhood and his Vision of Humanity as a Society of Explorers 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 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 T. Bolognesi Fabio Caporali, Università degli Studi di Tuscia A. Cordelli L. Gallenui Silvana Procacci, Università degli Studi di Perugia Aurelio Rizzacasa, Università degli Studi di Perugia Is There a Hierarchical Consciousness? Individual, Social and Cosmic Consciousness
4:45 - 5:15 PM	Coffee Break
5:15 - 7:00 PM	Transhumanism & Technology Wolfgang Achtner, Justus Liebig University Giessen Towards Techno-S@piens Ronald Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Technology and Eschatology: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on the Transformation of Human Nature Alena Govorounova, Nanzan University Soul, Self, Subject: At the Crossroads of Science, Buddhism and Christianity Recourse to Ricoeur William Grassie, Founder Metanexus Institute Entangled Narratives: Competing Visions of the Good Life 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 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: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to Longstanding, Interdisciplinary, Debates 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 Mini-Conference:  What Next? Roberto Poli, Università degli Studi di Trento Towards an Age of Synthesis (introductory lecture to debate) Debate with all Participants
7:00 - 7:15 PM	Break
7:15 - 9:00 PM	Plenary Session with Norbert Samuelson Norbert Samuelson, Metanexus Senior Fellow
9:00 PM	Dinner

Wednesday, 16 July, 2008
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 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 Paul S. Derry, Paula Derry Enterprises in Health Psychology Preconditions for Transdisciplinary Health Sciences Self & Soul I Peter Marinkovic, University of Munich Holistic Concepts of the Soul in the Ancient Mediterranean World Josef Quitterer, Universität Innsbruck 'Self' or 'Soul'? 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 Bioethics and the Person Robert T. Miller, Villanova University Law School Human Beings, Human Persons, and the Basis of Morality Joseph Wang, Universität Innsbruck 'Person', 'Personal Property', and 'Personal Act': How to Use Philosophical Notions in Ethical Decision-Making at Terminal-Ill Patients Dirk Solies, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz The Crisis of Personhood: Why We Need to Broaden Our View
10:45 - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM	Featured Session - Soul and Free Will (Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM) Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin Free Will & Selfhood: New Directions for an Ancient Problem Featured Session with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and William Chittick (Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM) Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Arizona State University William Chittick, SUNY Stony Brook
1:00 - 3:00 PM	Lunch
3:00 - 4:45 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 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 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? 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
4:45 - 5:15 PM	Coffee Break
5:15 - 7:00 PM	Neurobiology & Spirituality Tamar Gefen Grashin, Georgetown University Medical Center Current Knowledge on the Genetic Mediation of Self-Transcendence and Spirituality 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? Islamic Considerations of the Self Shiva Khalili, Tehran University A Theistic Approach to Psychology of Consciousness Abdul Majid, Government Postgraduate College, Mansehra Peaceful Co-Existence of Various Cultures and Religions: An Islamic Perspective with Special Reference to Spain Qodratullh Qorbani, Institute of Islamic Culture and Thought Man's Spiritual Evolution in the Material World: Mulla Sadra's Viewpoint Jalal Asadipour, World Religions Research Center Considerations of Self in Mula Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy 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 Self or No-Self? Stefan Bauberger, Hochschule für Philosophie München Personhood or Non-Self?: Christian and Buddhist Approach to the Self in the Context of Modern Scientific Results Sarath Nanda Arseculeratne, University of Peradeniya A Re-Consideration of René Descartes' 'Cogito, Ergo Sum' through a Synthesis of the Ideas of Buddhism, Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, and Andrew Newberg Christopher Durante, McGill University The Structure of Selves: The Nature of Selfhood and the Schizophrenic Experience
7:00 - 7:15 PM	Break
7:15 - 9:00 PM	Plenary Session with Tariq Ramadan and Antje Jackelen Tariq Ramadan, Faculty of Theology at Oxford Antje Jackelen, Bishop of Lund, Sweden
9:00 PM	Closing Banquet

Thank you to all participants! We hope to see you again next year!

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