Are Persons More than Social Objects?

The Emergence of Persons: Nature and Society


Research Project: The Ontology of Persons

International Workshop

 

Are Persons More than Social Objects?

The Emergence of Persons: Nature and Society

Palazzo Arese Borromeo
20031 Cesano Maderno (Milano)

 

May 28, 2007

Morning Session: Persons and Ontology

Chair: Roberta De Monticelli

 

9.45-10.00 Saluto del Magnifico Rettore Sac. Prof. Luigi Maria Verzé

 

10.00-10.45 Lynne Baker (UMass Amherst)

"Persons:  Natural, Yet Ontologically Unique"

abstract 

 

10.45-11.15 Discussion

 

 

11.15-11.30 Coffee-Break

 

 

11.30-12.15 Edmund Runggaldier (Innsbrück University, Austria)

“Persons as /continuants (endurers)/ and /agents”

abstract

 

12.15-12.30 Discussion

 

13.00 Lunch

 

Afternoon Session: Persons and Acts

Chair: Roberto Mordacci

 

14.45-15.30 Roberta De Monticelli (San Raffaele University)

On the very Actuality of Acts”

abstract

 

 

15.30-15.45 Discussion

 

15.45-16.30 Jean-Luc Petit  (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg et Collège de France)

“From brain resonance to intersubjectivity: “Are we by now bridging the gap?”

 abstract

 

16.30-16.45 Conclusive discussion

 

May 29, 2007

 Morning session: The Self and the Brain

Chair: Massimo Piattelli Palmarini

 

9.30 -10.15 Stefano Cappa - Nicola Canessa (San Raffaele University)

“Brain and social cognition”

 

10.15-10.30 Discussion

  

10.30-11.15 Francesco Benedetti (San Raffaele University)

“An updated anatomy of melancholy: Uncertain neural boundaries between thinking and feeling”

 

11.15-11.30 Discussion

 

11.30-12.00 Coffee-Break

 

12.00-12.45 Alessandro Bernasconi (San Raffaele University)

“Neural correlates of the depressive distortion in moral reasoning”

 

12.45-13.00 Discussion

 

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