Metaphysics, Ontology and the Science-Religion Debate - Workshop Programme



Thursday 7th May

 

15.00 – 17.00 

Registration

17.00 – 18.00

The Popularisation of Science and Religion

 

Prof. Karl Giberson. Turning Science into a Religion: The Oracles of Science

18.15 – 19.15 

Contributed Papers

         

Dr. James Le Fanu. Science in the media: keeping it (too) simple

         

Jaron Daniël Schoone. Science and Justice: The Dover case and its impact on science

19.30 

Dinner

Friday 8th May

 

9.00 – 11.00

The split between Science and Ontology in the Scientific Revolution

         

Prof. William Carroll. Creation and Inertia: The Scientific Revolution and Discourse on Science-and-Religion

         

Prof. Steve Fuller. Modes of Enchantment and Disenchantment in Science: A 21st Century Perspective

11.00 – 11.30 

Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00 

Contributed Papers

 

Prof. John Byl. The role of models and presuppositions in science and theology

 

Dr. Valeria Ascheri. Metaphysics as essential and natural bridge between science and religion

 

Dr. Robert A. Delfino. Scientific Naturalism and the Need for a Neutral Metaphysical Framework

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch

14.30 – 16.30

Is there room for Ontology in the Science-Religion debates?

         

Prof. Roger Trigg. Reality at Risk

         

Prof. Rafael Martinez. Ontological bridges and the Mind of the Universe

16.30 – 17.00 

Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00 

Contributed papers

 

Dr. Luis E. Echarte. The Mind of the Universe. Evolutionism, Cosmology and the End of Knowledge

 

Dr. Hector Velazquez. Did Mariano Artigas’s proposal answer the objections against teleology? A reply from The Mind of the Universe

19.30 

Conference Dinner (optional)

Saturday 9th May

 

9.00 – 11.00

Ontological and Epistemological questions in the Natural Sciences

 

Prof. Martinez J. Hewlett: Is It Tomorrow or Just the End of Time?:  Paradigm Shifts in the Biological Sciences

 

Prof. Marie George. A Comparison of the Contemporary Biologist's Understanding of Living Things with Aristotle's Vision Thereof

11.00 – 11.30 

Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 

Contributed Papers

 

Dr. Josep Corcó. Life in Popper’s cosmology

         

Ignacio Silva. Is God a theoretical term of quantum mechanics? Some Epistemological Issues concerning the Quantum Divine Action Project

 

Arne Vangheluwe. Metaphysics in science and the concept of “miracle”

13.00 – 14.30 

Lunch

14.30 – 16.30

Ontological and Epistemological questions in the Natural Sciences

 

Prof. Jitse M. van der Meer. The Multi-Modal Hierarchy. Distinguishing Parts, Wholes, and Levels of Organization

 

Prof. Thomas Glick. Teilhard de Chardin’s Undetected Selectionism: Sources and Influence

16.30 – 17.00 

Coffee break

17.00 – 18.00 

Contributed Papers

 

Prof. José Manuel Giménez-Amaya. Understanding free will: a philosophical and neuroscientific approach

 

Prof. Patrick Duffley. Does the Rubber ever Really Hit the Road? What Human Language Shows about the Relation Between Mind and Reality

18.00 – 19.00 

Round Table

19.30 

Dinner