Tim,
I’m writing from a computer
different from the one I have subscribed to the list. Could you please forward
the enclosed message to your list? I guess that some of the members may be
interested in the conference’s topics.
Cheers, r
Dynamic
Ontology
An
Inquiry into Systems, Emergence, Levels of Reality, and Forms of
Causality
Trento,
8-11 September 2004
Call
for papers
Many scientific results of
the twentieth century, in different fields of research, seemingly converge on
the conclusion that science is changing its nature. Quantum indeterminacy,
computational limitations, complexity, chaos and turbulence, non-linear dynamics
and far-from-equilibrium systems, defects in phase transitions, the far-reaching importance of intentionality, emergent properties
and emergent objects, forward, upward and downward forms of causation are all
facets of a general view claiming that we are approaching a new scientific
agenda. The four-centuries-old Galileian vision of science inadvertently but
inexorably seems to be giving way to a new one in which formal, material, mental
and social sciences are developing new forms of interaction and are beginning to
integrate with each other. Many aspects of this new scenario are still unknown;
many others are emerging; and many blind alleys lie in wait, especially if we
lack awareness of where we are and where we are heading. A selected group of
well-known and innovative scholars working in different fields ‑ sociology,
psychology, computer science, mathematics and philosophy ‑ will present and
discuss the basic conceptual issues of this new, incipient vision.
Ample
time will be allocated to discussion. If you are interested in attending the
conference and/or contributing your own ideas, please send a mail (with a
two-page abstract if you intend to give a paper) to the address below before
February 2003. All submissions will undergo review by at least two of the
invited speakers.
Invited speakers:
- Kenneth
D. Bailey (UCLA)
- Mark
Bickhard (Lehigh)
- Brian
Goodwin (Schumacher
College, UK)
- Stuart A. Kauffmann (Santa
Fe)
- Jack
Katz
(UCLA)
- Giuseppe Longo
(Paris)
- Roberto
Poli (Trento)
- Victor
Rosenthal (Paris)
- David
Weissman (New
York)
- Harrison White (Columbia)
The conference will be organized by the Faculty of
Sociology of Trento University
Applications should be sent to Roberto Poli, Department of Sociology
and Social Research
26, via Verdi, I-38100 Trento; Phone: 0039-0461-881403;
e-mail : ***
Conference’s website: http://www.unitn.it/events/do/
****************************************************
Dr Roberto Poli,
PhD
Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes, Kluwer:
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1122-1151
Papers
and other information
http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it
preferred
e-mail: ***
Dynamic ontology
conference:
http://www.unitn.it/events/do/index2.htm