During 2016-2018, members of the Person, Mind and Brain discussion group are scheduled to meet seven times a year. The meetings follow a selection of presentations from alternative scientific, philosophical or theological perspectives, in order to reach an interdisciplinary understanding of the human person.
The importance of this activity is that it allows scientists and philosophers to become real partners in the common quest for knowledge. Philosophers will be able to follow the progress of the experimental research, and scientists will reach a wider understanding of their findings. The seminar will thus increase the motivation to pursue their own investigations.
Presentations should last 60 minutes, with another 60 minutes allotted for discussion. A summary of the presentations is available here.
2018 Calendar
| March 22 | Development and validation of a virtual intervention program to promote prosociality: Hero Program | Belén Mesurado, Austral University |
| April 28 | The penultimate curiosity | Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford |
| June 14 | Agency and rationality, in which ways are we rational agents? | Ayelen Sanchez, Universidad Nacional del Sur |
| September 20 | Neuroscience and the Protective Role of Religiosity in Mental Health | Connie Svob, Columbia University |
| October 4 | Problems of the materialism in Philosophy of Mind | Ignacio Aguinalde Sáenz, Austral University |
| October 25 | Representational theories of consciousness | Javier Vidal, Universidad de Concepción (Chile) |
| November 15 | Epigenetics and philosophy of the person | Juan Pablo Roldán, Universidad Católica Argentina |
2017 Calendar
| March 16 | Robust Minimal Agents | Georg Gasser, Universität zu Innsbruck, Austria |
| April 27 | Significado, cuerpo y cerebro | Adolfo García, LPEN-INCYT, CONICET |
| May 18 | Aspiraciones legítimas o delirios pueriles: luces y sombras del programa transhumanista | Mariano Asla, Ángela Suburo, Jorge Insúa, Omar Pivetta, Universidad Austral |
| June 22 | ¿La empatía es disposicional o social? La compleja relación entre la empatía y la prosocialidad | María Cristina Richaud, CIIPME, CONICET |
| September 28 | Joint Attention and the Second-Person Formation of Virtue | Andrew Pinsent, University of Oxford |
| October 26 | Las huellas de un Dios personal en el universo | Francisco O`Reilly, Universidad de Montevideo |
| November 9 | El disfrute y el cerebro. El otro “problema duro” de la psicología y la filosofía de la mente | Nathaniel Barrett, Universidad de Navarra |
2016 Calendar
| May 26 | Mind-reading and empathy and the knowledge of persons | Prof. Eleonore Stump, University of St Louis, Missouri |
| July 7 | Sobre la ‘naturalización’ de la conciencia | Dr. Juan F. Franck, Universidad Austral |
| August 11 | Neurociencia y antropología | Prof. Juan José Sanguineti, Università della Santa Croce, Roma |
| August 25 | Neuropsicología de la toma de decisiones y religión | Dra. Nora Grañana, Hospital Durand |
| September 29 | El cerebro mejorado | Prof. Ángela Suburo, Universidad Austral |
| October 20 | Idem – Ipse: dos modelos de identidad | Dr. Juan Blanco Ilari, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento |
| November 10 | Self, subjetividad y persona | Prof. José Eduardo Moreno, Universidad Católica Argentina |
