Action theories:

Social action, Theory of Mind, Philosophy of Action, religious Action. 

           Conference Agenda         

      October 6-8, 2006- Rome,Italy

Friday, October 6, 2006

Session 1

Chair:  

9.00-9.30 Welcome: Mario TOSO,Francesco COCCOPALMERIO,

9,30-10,20 Wolfahrt HENCKMANN

Max Scheler´s Concept of Action

10,20-10,50 coffee break

10,50-11,40 Roberto POLI

Action and Anticipation

11,40-12,30 Jacques ARNOULD

Agitation or creation? Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s

concept of Action 

Lunch

Session 2

Chair: Marc Leclerc

15,30-16,20 Giacomo LOSITO

Moral action and pratique littérale:Lucien Laberthonnière and Maurice Blondel

16,20-17,10 David GRUMETT

Blondel, the Philosophy of Action and Liberation Theology

17,10-17,40 coffee break

17,40-18,30 Simone D’AGOSTINO

Maurice Blondel, Hanna Arendt and the Aristotelian action theory

18,30-19,20 Margaret YEE

Divine/Human Action:Austin Farrer’s metaphysics and philosophical Theology in a science-world

Dinner

Saturday, October 7, 2006

Session 3

Chair: Michael HOWLETT

9,00-9,50  Santiago SIA

Creative Synthesis: a Process Interpretation of Causality

9,50-10,40 Stephan SCHAEDE

Acting and deciding in Luther and Calvin

10,40-11,10 coffee break

11,10-12,00 Patricia REHM

Concepts of Action in the Work of Herder, Blondel and Arendt

12,00-12,50 Antonio MALO

Reflections on K. Wojtyla's theory of action

Lunch

Session 4

Chair: Armando RIGOBELLO

15,30-16,20 Pirooz FATOORCHI

Divine Creative Act and Origination of the Universe in Avicenna

16,20-17,10 Thomas MOELLENBECK

Free agents and contingency in the Middle Ages

17,10-17,40 coffee break

17,40-18,30 Michel WEBER

Panexperientialism in Action in A. N.Whitehead

18,30-19,20 Antonio RUSSO

The man and his religious action in Franz Brentano

Dinner

Sunday, October 8, 2006

Session 5

Chair:Eamonn Conway

9,00-9,50 Gregor NICKEL

Mathematical game theory - mathematics as a game.Two perspectives on human action

9,50-10,40 Oleg NIKOLENKO

Freedom of Will and the Responsibility.The problem of Action

10,40-11,10 coffee break

11,10-12,00 Boguslawa LEWANDOWSKA

Roman Ingarden and the Dependence of the world on consciousness

12,00-12,50 Maurice YOLLES

Knowledge Cybernetics and a Complex View of Observation and Measurement

Lunch

Conference ends

External visit

Dinner

Advisory Board:

Antonio Russo: russoan@units.it

Roberto Poli:  roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it