XI INTERNATIONAL ONTOLOGY CONGRESS
September 30-October 4, 2014
San Sebastian-Spain
Honorary President: Bas van Fraassen
Participation of the President of the “Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies”, AUTH, Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou, Professor Emerita of Philosophy of Science.
On September 30-October 4, 2014, the XI INTERNATIONAL ONTOLOGY CONGRESS was held in San Sebastian, Spain.
The two main themes were the following:
I. The problem of realism: state of the art.
II. The rise of the human animal: state of the art.
The aim of the Conference, which this year celebrated the twenty years of its operation, is “to breathe new life into the great topics of Greek philosophy, examining them from a contemporary perspective, namely using the tools provided by contemporary science».
Invites speakers of the Conference were the following:
DZ ALBERT (Columbia University) FJ AYALA (Templeton Prize, Irvine, California) V. CAMPS (UAB) E. CARBONELL (URV-ATAPUERCA) JI CIRAC (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) C. COHEN-TANNOUDJI (Nobel Award – ENS) A. ESTANY (UAB) José Ignacio LATORRE (Universitat de Barcelona) J. LADYMAN (University of Bristol) T. MAUDLIN (New York University) D. SFENDONI-MENTZOU (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) JM RAIMOND (École Normale Supérieure Paris) S. SAUNDERS (University of Oxford) L. TARCA (Ca’foscari, Venezia) B. VAN FRAASSEN (Princeton University).
The President of the “Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies,” Professor Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou participated with a paper on:
Aristotle and Contemporary Scientific Realism. A Neo-Aristotelian Proposal towards Enlarging Bas van Frassen’s Constructive Empiricist View of the Real.
http://www.ontologia.net/docs/Announcement_XI_International_Ontology_Congress.pdf
