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	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	Sinagoga del Tránsito/Museo Sefardi
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
7:00  PM	Busses Load for Dinner at Olrey and Return to Madrid	Toledo

Monday, 14 July, 2008
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
10:45-11:15 AM	Coffee Break
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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
1:00-3:15 PM	Lunch A Lunch B
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	Aula Magna
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Sala Gª Polavieja
	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	Aula Magna (ICAI)
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	Aula Magna
	Featured Session – On Compassion Anindita Balslev, University of Copenhagen Solomon Katz, University of Pennsylvania F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Aula Magna (ICAI)
6:45- 7:15	Break
7:15 - 9:00 PM	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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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
	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	Aula Magna (ICAI)
9:00 PM	Dinner on your own & Free time

Tuesday, 15 July, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Aula Magna (ICAI)
10:45 - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Aula Magna (ICAI)
1:00-3:15 PM	Lunch A Lunch B
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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Sala Gª Polavieja
	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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Sala Gª Polavieja
	Mini-Conference:  What Next? Roberto Poli, Università degli Studi di Trento Towards an Age of Synthesis (introductory lecture to debate) Debate with all Participants	Aula Magna (ICAI)
6:45 - 7:15 PM	Break
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	Aula Magna
9:00 PM	Dinner on your own & Free time

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	Aula Magna
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Sala Gª Polavieja
10:45 - 11:15 AM	Coffee Break
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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
1:00 - 3:15 PM	Lunch A Lunch B
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
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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?	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	Aula Magna
	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	Sala de Conferencias
	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	Sala Gª Polavieja
6:45 - 7:15 PM	Break
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	Aula Magna
9:00 PM	Closing Banquet	Hotel Husa Princessa

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

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