The International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences (IRAFS) was constituted at the Pontifical Lateran University (PUL) in October of 1997.In seventeen years of activity, the Area has promoted at the Lateran University, several conferences, courses and debates, overall through its active participation in the STOQ Project.
The IRAFS - International Research Area on Foundations of the Sciences - is the first of the research areas based at the Pontifical Lateran University. Its official foundation dates back to October 1997, just about a year away from the premature death of him who was the first promoter and founder of the Area: ENNIO DE GIORGI. Professor at the "Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa", Member of the "Accademia dei Lincei" in Italy, of the "Académie de France", of the "National Academy of Sciences in US, and of the "Pontifical Academy of Sciences" in Vatican , he was one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.
... during the last ten years of his scientific activity, was dedicated to research on the foundations of logic and mathematics. For this aim, he founded at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa a famous Seminar for Doctoral students on the Foundations of Mathematics.
Finally, through the collaboration with Prof. EDWARD NELSON of the Dept. of Mathematics at Princeton University (USA), with Prof. GIANFRANCO BASTI and with Dr. ANTONIO LUIGI PERRONE, of the Faculty of Philosophy at PUL, he promoted the creation of IRAFS. Unfortunately for us, however, he was not able to see it on this earth...
... for promoting opportunities of discussion and in-depth research about the foundations of the different scientific and humanistic disciplines, by using the amazing opportunities offered by the axiomatic method. This method, during the XX century, was used overall for developing the mathematical logic. On the contrary, overall during the last thirty years, it was used also for developing the so-called philosophical logic, so to extend the advantages of the axiomatic method, from the mathematical and the natural sciences, to the humanistic disciplines.
This opened the way, not only to the next digital revolution of the semantic web, and of the artificial simulation of the human intentional behavior, destined to change deeply our society, our culture, and our economy - the so-called next "digital tsunami" -, but also to a new era for the interdisciplinary and the intercultural dialogue.
IRAFS, because of the foresight of prof. De Giorgi and of his friends, was since the beginning on the cutting edge of this revolution...
... share, in the modern scientific field, the common mathematical formalisms and, in relation to other subjects in the humanities - ontology, epistemology, and ethics, before all -, the common logical formalism. The axiomatic method makes it "transparent" to the universal comprehension, beyond the cultural and the educational differences, so to help the interdisciplinary and the intercultural dialogue in a decisive way.
In seventeen years of activity, the Area has promoted at the Lateran University, many conferences, courses and debates, overall through the participation at the STOQ Project. Moreover, IRAFS supported the participation of its members in many International Conferences on these topics, with the related scientific publications of their contributions. Finally, the IRAFS organized at the Lateran four International Conferences, on the relation between science, philosophy and theology, and on several cross-border interdisciplinary topics.
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Year 2021
Proposal for an International Project on:
"A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT FOR INNOVATIVE INTEGRATED THERAPIES OF CHRONIC PAIN & MALADAPTIVE BRAIN PLASTICITY"
It is the more advanced integrated project for the therapy of pathological pain and other maladaptive brain disorders (depression, addictions, obsessive-compulsive disorders,
Tourette syndrome).
See more at the dedicated page of the "Research site" of this Portal...
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April 2021
Presentation of the Aquinas journal special issue (LXIII, 1-2, 2020) on: "Cosmos & Logos. Physics, Philosophy, and Theology in an Ages of Changes".
A collection of updated versions of the contributions given in several Conferences on Cosmology organized by IRAFS at the Lateran University
See more at the page "Physics and Cosmology" of the Research site of this Portal...
In occasion of the anniversary
of Alfred Tarski's birth (1/14/1901) and of Kurt Goedel's death (1/14/1978), the two greatest logicians of XX cent.
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PAST EVENTS
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SEMINAR CYCLE
Presentation of the new book:
Ontologia Formale, G. Basti, S. Mobeen, APES Ed., Rome, 2015, with contributions of Habermas, Searle, Ales Bello, Basti, Kanakappally, Poli, Mobeen, Giovagnoli.
Presenters:
A. Iodice, G. Traversa, D. Santoro.
Chair: Ph. Larrey
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It is available for download the Brochure with all IRAFS 2016 Workshops.
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The third issue of IRAFS Newsletter is available both onsite, and in a downloadable pdf format, in English and in Italian versions. You can also register yourself for receiving IRAFS Newsletter issues directly and freely on your email box.
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the English Version
Scarica la Versione Italiana
