San Raffaele University, Milan - Faculty of Philosophy

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"
10.45-11.00 Discussion
11.00-11.45 Edmund Runggaldier (Innsbrück University, Austria): "Persons as /continuants (endurers)/ and /agents"
11.45-12.00 Discussion
12.00-12.15 Coffee-Break
12.15 -13.00 Maurizio Ferraris (Labont, University of Torino): "Some Differences between Persons and Objects"
13.00-13.15 Discussion

Lunch

Afternoon Session: Persons and Acts (Chair: Armando Massarenti)
15.00-15.45 Roberta De Monticelli (San Raffaele University): "On the very Actuality of Acts"
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?"
16-30-16.45 Conclusive discussion
Coffee Break

May 29, 2007

Morning session: The Self and the Brain (Chair: Massimo Piattelli Palmarini) 9.30 -10.15 Stefano Cappa - Nicola Vanessa (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
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

Il workshop è in fase di organizzazione.
Per maggiori informazioni e conferma del programma si prega di consultare il sito dell'Ateneo: www. unisr.it