First Academic Seminar Participants

1.     Prof. Francisco Mora

Department of Human Physiology

Universidad Complutense, Spain

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2.  Prof. Camilo José Cela Conde

Department of Philosophy

Balearic University (UIB), Spain

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3.     Prof. Roberto Poli

Department of Sociology and Social Research

University of Trento, Italy    

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I teach applied ethics, ontology and futures studies (well, too many fields, I know) at Trento university. I have been one of the three members of the board for the Sophia-Europa project on connections among science and religion (2005-2008). During the 2008 Metanexus conference in Madrid the decision has been taken to continue SophiaEuropa, albeit in a different format, and I have been asked to serve as the project’s coordinator. My research interests include (1) the theory of values and the concept of person (Fra speranza e responsabilità. Introduzione alle strutture ontologiche dell’etica, Polimetrica, 2006), (2) ontology, in both its traditional philosophical understanding and the new, computer-oriented, understanding (alwis. Ontology for Knowledge Engineers, PhD Thesis, Utrecht, 2001; TAO-Theory and Applications of Ontology, 2 vols Springer 2009), and (3) anticipatory systems, i.e. system able to take decisions according to their possible future development (R. Poli and R. Miller, Understanding Anticipatory Systems, special issue of Foresight, 2009). Further info and papers from www.robertopoli.it

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4.  Prof. Manuel Curado

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Minho University, Portugal 

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5.     Prof. Harald Walach

Department of Social Sciences

Northampton University, England

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6.     Prof. Neil Spurway  

Emeritus Professor of Exercise Physiology

University of Glasgow, Scotland

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As a student I turned from physics to physiology, with the intention of studying neuroscience, but was allocated the study of muscle cell membranes as a doctoral project, and stayed with muscles for 40 years.  In retirement, with more time to develop long-standing interests in philosophy and theology, I have been President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, edited the newsletter of the European Society for the Study of Science And Theology, chaired the UK’s Science and Religion Forum, and written several articles on evolutionary epistemology and its implications for theology. 

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          7.    Prof. Álvaro Pascual-Leone

                 Professor of Neurology 

                 Harvard Medical School

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            8. Prof. Gregor Nickel

                Professor of Mathematics

                Universität Siegen

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           9.     Sophia-Iberia Managing Team

     Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain

      Javier Leach 

Javier Monserrat

Christine Heller

Amparo García-Plaza

Prof. Pascual F. Martinez-Freire, Professor of Logics and Philosophy of Science 

(Universidad de Málaga), has communicated that unfortunately he cannot

participate in this Seminar any more.