The School of Athens - General view
Keynote speakers
The general subject of the conference are problems of philosophical ontology, epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind that are formulated or solved using formal methods (as defined in logic, mathematics, formal linguistics, theoretical computer science, information science, AI) and/or with references to the results of natural and social sciences.
The following special topics will be addressed:
- use of formal methods in philosophy,
- philosophical analysis of scientific notions (natural law, matter, change, cause, chance, time, space, uncertainty, quantum phenomena, probability, social interaction),
- philosophical analysis of scientific methods (formalisms, rationality, values and norms, etc.),
- the role and use of scientific notions and methods in philosophy (formal systems in philosophy, critical analysis, systematic philosophy, etc.).
Conference Committee
Gianfranco Basti, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City
Grzegorz Bugajak, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw
Filip Grgić, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Srećko Kovač, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Kordula Świętorzecka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw
ECSS 2019 will be held in Rome (Italy), 28-30 October 2019, hosted by the International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences (IRAFS) at the Pontifical Lateran University.
The annual European Computer Science Summit is the only place, where leaders and decision makers in Informatics research and education in Europe gather to debate strategic themes and trends related to research, education and policies. More...
Visit the site for discovering in how many countries we are celebrating the 1st WLD - World Logic Day - 2019: http://www.logica-universalis.org/wld . The date of January 14 for celebrating every year the WLD is because this date is the Anniversary of Alfred Tarski's birth (January 14, 1901) and of Kurt Goedel's death (January 14, 1978), the tewo greatest logicians of the XX cent.
[G. Basti, Slides
; A. Tarski, The concept of truth in formalized languages ; The semantic conception of truth ; A. Tarski-R.L. Vaught, Arithmetical extensions of relational systems (Truth in Model Theory); R. Maddux, The Origin of Relation Algebras in the Development and Axiomatization of the Calculus of
Relations (From Peirce's algebra of relations to Tarski's calculus of relations) ].
Workshop BrochureConference Brochure In the motivations for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne, “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated: “On September 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago, came from a collision between black holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to arrive at the LIGO detector in the USA”. After this first observation others followed during the last years that are changing deeply our scientific cosmology, inaugurating a new age in the so-called “cosmology of precision”. That is, a cosmology become a “Galileian science”, because not only based on mathematical models, but also on precise measurements confirming or refuting the mathematical hypotheses. As the press release of Caltech announcing the Nobel Prize to its three professors stated, “the observation of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time (…), provided astronomers with an entirely new set of tools with which to probe the cosmos. Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very-high-energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays. Now, astronomers can learn about cosmic objects through the quivers they make in space and time”. Aim of this Conference is debating between theoretical physicists and philosophers of nature about the different aspects of the work in progress for the construction of a reliable theory of “quantum gravity”. The amazing ontological and epistemological consequences of these discoveries could be indeed that the origins and the evolution of the space-time structure of our universe have ultimately a dynamic (causal) explanation…
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Gianfranco Basti (Lateran University)
Francesco Guerra (La Sapienza University)
Flavia Marcacci (Lateran University)
Sarah Jones Nelson (Princeton University)
Christopher G. Tully (Princeton University)
Giuseppe Vitiello (Salerno University)
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Gianfranco Basti
Alfonso D’Amodio
Flavia Marcacci
Mauro Oliva
Emanuele Sedran
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ECSS-2018: European Computer Science Summit 2018.
Gothenburg (Sweden), 8-10 October 2018:
"Informatics Transforms and Renews"
