Pisa, Autumn 2020. A two-day International Meeting hosted by the Department of Civiltà e forme del sapere (Pisa, Italy).
Postponed as part of the effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19
PANEL 1 : History of Philosophy
Aristotle on the Trust of Scientific Principles
PAOLO CRIVELLI is Professor Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva. His main area of research is Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Ontology in classical antiquity (mainly Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics).
From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Philosophical Truth
CRISTINA D’ANCONA is Professor of History of Late Ancient Philosophy and of History of Medieval and Arabic Medieval Philosophy at the University of Pisa. Her fields of research include Neoplatonism and Medieval Philosophy, Arabic and Latin.
Philosophy and Scripture: The Middle Ages, and Beyond
ELISA CODA is Research Fellow at the University of Pisa. She studies the reception of the Aristotelian Physics and Cosmology in the Middle Ages and Early Reinaissance. Her fields of research include Late Ancient Philosophy and Medieval Philosophy, Arabic and Hebrew.
Is Aristotelian Deduction Still Reliable?
MAURO MARIANI is Professor of Logic at the University of Pisa. His main field of research are Logic and Theory of Language and Ontology in Twentieth Century and Classical Antiquity.
PANEL 2: Logic and Philosophy of Science
The Constructed Objectivity of Scientific Knowledge and the Formation of Sense: from Logic to Life-Sciences
GIUSEPPE LONGO is Directeur de Recherche Emérite at the CNRS (Paris), Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), and Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine, Tufts University (Boston). His main field of research are Logic and Theory of Computation; denotational semantics and lambda-calculus; Type Theory, Category Theory and their applications to Computer Science.
Trust in Mathematics: Some Case Studies (part I)
ENRICO MORICONI is Professor of Logic at the Universisty of Pisa. His main field of research are Logic and Theory of Language and Ontology in Twentieth Century and Classical Antiquity.
Trust in Mathematics: Some Case Studies (part II)
LUCA BELLOTTI is Professor of Logic at the Universisty of Pisa. His main field of research are Logic and Theory of Language and Ontology in Twentieth Century.
STEPHEN JOHN is Hatton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health at Cambridge University. His main field of research are at the intersection of philosophy of science, applied ethics, social epistemology, and political philosoph. His research to date has clustered around a series of concepts which raise both ethical and epistemological challenges
Trust in Scientific Experts (part I)
PIERLUIGI BARROTTA is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pisa, and Head of the Departement of Civiltà e Forme del Sapere. His main field of research are the relationships between science and democracy.
Trust in Scientific Experts (part II)
ROBERTO GRONDA is Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa; he teaches Epistemology. His main field of research are Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. His current project is that of developing a pragmatist theory of scientific expertise.
PANEL 3: Ethics and Anthropology
On the Ontological Status of Trust: Robert Spaemann’s Philosophy of the Person as a Promise
WALTER SCHWEIDLER holds the chair of Philosophy at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since 2009. His main research interests are: Contemporary and modern concepts of ethics and political philosophy; philosophy of law and human rights theory; phenomenology, Heidegger’s philosophy in the context of the main philosophical concepts of the 20th century; metaphysics and critique of metaphysics; intercultural philosophy; bioethics.
The Role of Trust in the Network Society
ADRIANO FABRIS is Full Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa, and P.I. of the Project Ethics Science Democracy (2018-2020). He developed a “philosophy of relation”, through which many theoretical apories – well known in the history of philosophy, from Aristotle to Heidegger – are discussed and solved. His main areas of research are the development of modern Jewish thought, and the discussion of the main problems of philosophy of religions in the age of religious pluralism; the importance of images in the philosophical and cultural debate; and the ethical implication of some new technologies (Internet, social network, robotics etc.).
Community and Trust in the Network Society
VERONICA NERI is Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa. Her main field of research are to Ethics of Public Communication; Deontological and Normative Apparatus for Public Communication; Ethical issues related to public communication; Strategies, language, tools and methodologies of communication of public institutions; Possible ethical perspectives in relation to the development of increasingly digital and network management.
PANEL 4: Politics and Theory of Institutions
Trust and Political Ignorance
ILYA SOMIN is Professor of Law at George Mason University. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy.
Populism as a Crisis of Trust in Democracy
ANTONIO MASALA, is Senior Researcher at the University of Pisa; he teaches Political Theory. His main field of research are Ordoliberalism, Conservatism, and Liberalism.
Trust and Power in John Locke’s «Two Treatises of Government»
MARCO MENON is Research Fellow at the University of Pisa. His main subjects of study are modern political philosophy, and the theologico-political problem.
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Venue
The conference will be held at Palazzo Boilieau, via Santa Maria 85, 56126 Pisa
Overnight accommodation at this venue can be booked via the University of Pisa’s new guesthouse “Residence Le Benedettine” website: http://it.residence.unipi.it/home_en/
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Contact
For more information about this event, please contact Dr. Roberto Gronda (roberto.gronda@unipi.it).
