2006 LSI SUPPLEMENTAL GRANT AWARDS

Philosophy of Nature Forum TRIESTE-NIF (Nature, Intentionality and Finality Research Group) (SophiaEuropa)
Departimento di Filosofia, Universitá degli Studi di Trieste
Rome, Italy
Chairperson:  Antonio Russo

This society has been quite active at its host university, offering a multidisciplinary series of lectures and public seminars and all the usual activities of good local societies. However, this society has also played a major role in building a vibrant pan-European network of high-level researchers who are engaged in the philosophical issues that surround the science and religion dialogue. The group helps organize international conferences and networking opportunities, including an upcoming conference on “action theories” to be held in Rome and a conference entitled, “The Concept of Infinity: Philosophical, Theological, Mathematical, and Science of Nature Views,” to be held in Tübingen. The leadership of this society launched a webforum for and has become the center of the entire SophiaEuropa project. Future plans call for publication of work generated in the research program. We could not have made as much progress as we have with the SophiaEuropa project with the help of this society, and their leadership is proving to be a great benefit to the wider LSI network.

Award Accepted by : Antonio Russo

Antonio Russo is full professor and Dean of Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, at the University of Trieste. He holds advanced degrees in both theology and philosophy and has been awarded numerous research grants at leading universities in Italy and Germany. Since 1989, he has been a member of the scientific board of the Foundation Ugo Spirito and has organized several international academic conferences. Russo is also author or editor of 10 books and more than 180 essays, including Positivismo e idealismo in Ugo Spirito (Foreword by A. Rigobello e C. Fabro: Roma, Fondazione U. Spirito, 1990); Henri de Lubac: Teologia e dogma nella storia. L'influsso di Blondel (Foreword by W. Kasper; Roma, Ed. Studium, 1990); Henri de Lubac (Milano, Edizioni S. Paolo, 1994; French translation: Editions Brepols, Paris, 1997); Ugo Spirito: dal positivismo all'antiscienza (Milano, Guerini e Associati, 1999); and La Scuola cattolica di Franz Brentano: Heinrich Suso Denifle (Trieste, EUT 2003, with unpublished correspondence of F. Brentano and H. Denifle).

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