2023 PROGRAM 

 

Opening and closing events

 

CHILLIDA-LEKU MUSEUM

CHALLENGES: From Artificial Life to Quantum Computer

 

Tuesday, October 3^rd

 

16:00 Opening Ceremony 

Welcoming words 

Eva Ferreira (Rector of the University of the Basque Country)

Jon Umerez (University of the Basque Country / Director of the Philosophy Department)

Bárbara Jiménez (University of the Basque Country / Secretary of the International Ontology Congress)

Opening Speech 

Luca Maria Scarantino (President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies / Fudan scholar)

 

16:30 – 18:30 Lectures 

16:30-17:30 – Steen Rasmussen (Director of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology / University of Southern Denmark) - Artificial life, sentience, and the circle of meaning

17:30-18:30 – Humberto Bustince (Universidad Pública de Navarra / European Academy of Sciences and Arts) - Artificial intelligence, what is it and what it’s not?

Chair - Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque / European University Institute, Firenze)

 

18:45 Concert 

Isabel Puente (pianist)

 

19:30 Appetizer – Lurra Café, Chillida-Leku Museum   

 

   

CHILLIDA-LEKU MUSEUM

CHALLENGES: From Artificial Life to Quantum Computer

 

 

Saturday, October 7th 

 

11:00 Closing Ceremony 

Farewell Speech 

 

11:15 – 13:00 CLOSING DEBATE: Quantum Philosophers Look at Quantum Computer

11:15-12:15 Darío Gil Alburquerque (Vice President of IBM and Director of IBM Research) - What can and can’t be expected from the quantum computer?

12:15-13:00 Colloquium with: David Wallace (Pittsburgh University), Tim Maudlin (New York University), Alberto Cordero (City University of New York), Javier Tejada (UB, Barcelona)

Chair – Pedro Miguel Echenique (Max Planck Prize, Principe de Asturias Prize / Donostia International Physics Center)

 

13:15 Concert 

Orfeón Donostiarra. Director: José Antonio Sainz Alfaro

 

14:00 Appetizer 

 

 

Congress sessions. University of the Basque Country

Facultad de Educación, Filosofía y Antropología

Avenida de Tolosa 70. San Sebastián

 

 

Wednesday, October 4th 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

09:00-11:00 Lectures 

Daniel Innerarity (Ikerbasque / European University Institute, Firenze) - El sueño de las máquinas creativas

Antonio Diéguez (Universidad de Málaga) - Transhumanismo, singularidad e identidad personal

Chair – Humberto Bustince (Universidad Pública de Navarra / European Academy of Sciences and Arts)

 

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK – Third Floor 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

11:30-14:30 Lectures 

José Ignacio Galparsoro (UPV/EHU) - Tecnologías digitales y filosofía. El conflicto entre dos manifestaciones de la singularidad humana

Francis Wolff (ENS, Paris) - La humanidad hoy, entre animalismo y transhumanismo

Roberto R. Aramayo (CSIC, Madrid) - ¿Qué le diría Kant a la Inteligencia Artificial?

Chair – Gotzon Arrizabalaga (UPV/EHU)

 

16:30-19:30 Lectures 

Davide Spanio (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) - Transcendental thought. The self and the world after Kant

António Pedro Mesquita (University of Lisbon) - The singularity of the individual towards an operative definition of the individual

Stefano Maso (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) - The refinement of the human will according to the deterministic Stoic doctrine

Chair – Francis Wolff (ENS, Paris)

 

SALA DE JUNTAS. Second Floor 

 

09:30-11:00 Contributed Talks 

Quentin Ruyant (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Consistent histories through pragmatist lenses

Kiran Pala (Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland) - What would it be like without experientiality?

Amir Naseri (All and Nought School of Thought / Institute for advanced studies on Consciousness) - Introduction to All'n'None Theory

 

11:30-13:30 Contributed Talks 

Adrien Tallent (Sorbonne Université) - On the Automation of Uniqueness

Nicholas Jung (University of Leeds) - Expecting consciousness - quantum computing and the phenomenon of consciousness

Martin King (LMU Munich (MCMP)) - Deep Learning in High Energy Physics

Chair – Vassilis Mastoris (Education consultant of Evia prefecture, Greece)

 

14:30-16:00 Contributed Talks 

Vassilis Mastoris (Education consultant of Evia prefecture, Greece) - Man and Scala Naturae

Íñigo Ongay de Felipe (Instituto de Estudios de Ocio, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de Deusto) -Neither Nature nor Nurture: on the inadequateness of innatism and environmentalism in Biology and Psychology

John Lemos (Coe College) - Human uniqueness, moral responsibility, and evolution

Chair – Martin King (LMU Munich (MCMP))

 

16:00-18:00 Contributed Talks 

Arantzazu Saratxaga (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies), University Freiburg) - Endophysics and the complexity of seeing

Noah Stemeroff (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / University of Bonn) - Pauli on Plato (Mind and Nature)

Oriol Roca-Martín (UB, Barcelona) - Is flat physicalism particularly “non-mysterious”and “flat” after all?

Mariano Lisa Escaned (Societat Catalana de Filosofia de l’ Institut d’Estudis Catalans) - Realist ontology of the theory of relativity

Chair – John Lemos (Coe College) 

 

18:00-19:30 Contributed Talks 

Esteban Céspedes (Catholic University of the Maule) - Affective robotics and inter-subjective projective functions

Charalambos Papageorgiou (European University, Cyprus) - Outside the Chinese Room and aboard the Ship of Theseus: Ontological and metaphysical implications of brain prosthesis

Shimo Sraman, Suman Sarka, Partha Roy (International Buddhist Studies College, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University) - Emotional Intelligence According to the Buddhist Conception

Chair – Mariano Lisa Escaned (Societat Catalana de Filosofia de l’ Institut d’Estudis Catalans)

 

Thursday, October 5th 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

09:00-11:00 SYMPOSIUM

The quantum measurement problem and the place of (human) consciousness in Physics

Paavo Pylkkänen (University of Helsinki / University of Skövde) - Does quantum theory imply something new about the role of human beings in physics and in reality in general?

Jeffrey Barrett (The University of California) - Wigner’s friend and the nature of quantum records

Chair – Alberto Cordero (City University of New York)

 

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK – Third Floor 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

11:30-13:30 Lectures 

Alberto Cordero (City University of New York) - Realism and Underdetermination: Quarantining Theory Parts as a Resource

David Wallace (Pittsburgh University) - Structural Realism and the Pragmatic Aspects of Ontology

Chair – Juan José Gómez Cadenas (Ikerbasque / Donostia International Physics Center)

 

15:30-18:30 Lectures 

Juan José Gómez Cadenas (Ikerbasque / Donostia International Physics Center) -  Are we alone? Drake equation, Fermi paradox and SETI

Esperanza Cuenca (Multiverse Computing) - On Quantum Intelligent Machines

Tim Maudlin (New York University) - How Relativistic Structure Might Emerge From a Discrete Space-Time

Chair – David Wallace (Pittsburgh University)

 

SALA DE JUNTAS. Second Floor 

 

09:30-11:00 Contributed Talks 

António Manuel Rodrigues Oliveira (Mekelle University, School of Architecture and Urban Planning) - Space duration

Josep Muntañola Thornberg (Reial Academia Catalana de les Belles Arts i de Sant Jordi) - Ethics to Arnau (Architectural Education and Artificial Intelligence)

Tristan Burt (University of Sydney) - How semiotics, as metascience, transcends the limitations of science

Chair – Ondřej Sikora (University of Pardubice)

 

11:30-13:30 Contributed Talks 

Ondřej Sikora (University of Pardubice) - Intelligence and Dignity: Kantian Perspective

Lydia Amir (Tufts University) - Solving the puzzle: Human singularity in the history of ideas

André Dias de Andrade (Universidade de São Paulo / Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) - Human Singularity in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology

Filipa de Almeida Afonso (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa / Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa) - Aquinas on beauty: the human being as the aesthetical animal

Chair – Tristan Burt (University of Sydney)

 

14:30-15:30 Contributed Talks 

Mikel Torres Aldave (UPV/EHU) - ¿Tienen lenguaje los animales?

Idoia Solores (UPV/EHU) - Efectos de la música en humanos y animales

Chair – Ignacio Ayestarán Úriz (UPV/EHU)

 

15:30-17:00 Contributed Talks 

Ignacio Ayestarán Úriz (UPV/EHU) - El nacimiento de la inteligencia artificial y la importancia del conocimiento humano negativo

Juan Bautista Bengoechea (UPV/EHU) - Riesgos y beneficios epistémicos de la enseñanza mediante tecnologías de inteligencia artificial

Beatriz Sánchez Tajadura (UPV/EHU) - La súperinteligencia artificial toma café con Teresa de Ávila y Juan de la Cruz. El papel del deseo en la inteligencia

Chair – Pedro Manuel Uribe Guzmán (ESIC, Barcelona)

 

17:00-18:30 Contributed Talks 

Pedro Manuel Uribe Guzmán (ESIC, Barcelona) - La singularidad del ser humano en la raíz de la tolerancia

Rita María Pérez Pérez (UPV/EHU) - La publicidad como expresión de la singularidad humana

César Alcázar Arellano (Grupo de Trabajo Fronteras, regionalización y globalización-CLACSO) - La dialéctica capital-tecnología en tiempos de Twitter: La economía política del diseño algorítmico, inteligencia artificial y democracia

Chair – Beatriz Sánchez Tajadura (UPV/EHU)

 

Friday, October 6th 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

09:00-11:00 Lectures 

Adela Cortina (Universidad de Valencia / Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas) - Las fronteras de la persona en una cultura tecnocientífica

Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde) - Del concepto de Humanidad al de tecno-humanidades

Chair – Antonio Diéguez (Universidad de Málaga)

 

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK – Third Floor 

 

SALÓN DE GRADOS. Second Floor 

 

11:30-14:30 Lectures 

Jesús Zamora Bonilla  (UNED, Madrid) - On inferentialism and some differences between artificial and human intelligence

Silvia de Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano) - Symbolic construction and the irreducible uniqueness of humankind

Elena Partene (ENS, Paris) - The uniqueness of the individual as expression of the uniqueness of humankind

Chair – Stella Villarmea (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Oxford University)

 

15:30-18:30 Lectures 

Stella Villarmea (Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Oxford University) - El nacimiento: repensar el origen desde la filosofía

Ambrosio Velasco (UNAM, México) - Nominalismo, pluralismo y crítica a la epistemocracia

Paolo Ponzio (Bari University), Maite Arraiza (UPV/EHU) - Zubiri y Haraway: de la respectividad de lo real hasta la relacionalidad del compost

Chair – Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde)

 

SALA DE JUNTAS. Second Floor 

 

09:30-11:00 Contributed Talks 

Aritz Pardina Herrero (UNED / UPV/EHU) - Refutación de la IA como autoridad en el gusto (a través de D. Hume)

Elías Sánchez Ordorika (UPV/EHU) - La idea estética kantiana como paradigma físico-metafísico. Un salto hacia la Noumenología y la decodificación del entendimiento humano

María Jesús Hermoso Félix (Universidad de Valladolid) - Lo que nos hace hombres: la significación de la mente (nous) en Platón, Aristóteles y Plotino

Chair – Jon Mentxakatorre Odriozola (Mondragon Unibertsitatea)

 

11:30-13:30 Contributed Talks 

José L. Falguera (University of Santiago de Compostela) - Concepts as abstract artifacts: an alternative to platonic entities or to mental representations?

Konstantinos Alevizos (Rouen-Normandy University) - The Epicurean “self” versus the atomic and existential predeterminism: Book 25 on nature

Jon Mentxakatorre Odriozola (Mondragon Unibertsitatea) - On the philosophical double vision

Alejandro Quintás Hijós (Universidad de Zaragoza) - Degradation of the body in idealist-dualist philosophy

Chair – Paulo Renato Cardoso de Jesus (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa)

 

14:30-17:00 Contributed Talks 

Paulo Renato Cardoso de Jesus (Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa) - On the Modal Ontology of Humanity: The Belief in Possibility

Ryan Miller (Université de Genève) - Aristotelian Grounding for GRW’s Flash Ontology

Elena Dragalina-Chernaya (National Research University Higher School of Economics, International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy, Moscow) - Goal-Rationality vs Rule-Rationality for ‘Logical Aliens’

Timotheus Riedel (Université de Genève) - Quantum perspectivism and the iteration of relativity

Mikhail Strigin (South Ural State University) - The principle of uncertainty of logic, or quantization of semantics

Chair – Alejandro Quintás Hijós (Universidad de Zaragoza)

 

17:30-19:00 Contributed Talks 

Iván López García (Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) - Singularidad humana frente a vida extraterrestre: Límites ontológicos y gnoseológicos de las ciencias humanas

Pablo López López (IES Emilio Ferrari, Valladolid) - Inteligencias y realidades: Culturas y naturalezas, intenciones y mecanismos, artes y ciencias

Marta García (Investigadora Independiente) - De la singularidad humana a la soledad personal: ascenso político de un sentimiento contemporáneo

Bayibayi Molongwa (Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial) - Nueva humanidad y convencionalidad

Chair – Alejandro Quintás Hijós (Universidad de Zaragoza)

 

 

Congress sessions. Ca' Foscari University

Aula Mario Baratto. Canal Grande, Venezia

Monday, October 9th 

 

10:00-13:00 Lectures 

 

10:00-10:30 Introduction

10:30-11:30 OPENING LECTURE: Federico Faggin (USA-Los Alamos, Kyoto Prize; National Medal of Technology and Innovation U.S.) - Consciousness and free will are quantum

11:30-12:15 Paolo Pagani (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) - Notes on the human difference

12:15-13:00 Javier Echeverría (Jakiunde) - Techno-humans and Techno-worlds

Chair - Stefano Maso (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)

 

Lunch 

 

15:00-19:15 Lectures 

 

15:00-15:45 M. Pierre-Marie Morel (University of Paris 1) - Aristotle and the question of human nature in ethics

15:45-16:30 Elisabetta Cattanei (Università Cattolica del Santo Cuore, Milano) - Cosmo, iperuranio, pensiero: le ontologie del numero nell'antichità

Chair - Eleonora Montuschi (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)

 

16:30-17:00 Break 

 

17:00-17:45 G. L Paltrinieri (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) - Each of us is several. For a non-naturalistic Ontology

17:45-18:30 Elena Partene (ENS, Paris) - The uniqueness of the individual as expression of the uniqueness of humankind

18:30-19:15 Iker Martínez (UNED, Madrid) - Societas e φιλία: l'ideale cosmopolita

Chair: Davide Spanio (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)

 

Tuesday, October 10th 

 

09:30-12:30 Lectures 

 

09:30-10:30 David Wallace (Pittsburgh University) - Structural Realism and the Pragmatic Aspects of Ontology

Chair - Marco Sgarbi (Ca' Foscari Venezia)

 

10:30-11:00 Break 

 

11:00-11:45 F. G. Herrmann (Swansea University) - Plato’s anthropology and the uniqueness of humankind

11:45-12:30 Daniel Innerarity (European University Institute, Firenze) - The social contract between humans and machines: new limits of humanity 

Chair - Marco Sgarbi (Ca' Foscari Venezia)

 

Lunch 

 

14:30-16:45 Lectures 

 

14:30-15:15 Franco Ferrari (University of Pavia) - ll mondo come immagine in uno specchio: lo statuto ontologico degli oggetti fisici nel Timeo di Platone      

15:15-16:00 Messinese Leonardo (Pontificia Università Lateranense) - The machine, the meaning of Man, the meaning of Being  

16:00-16:45 CLOSING LECTURE: Rafael Yuste (Columbia University / BRAIN INITIATIVE) - From NeuroTechnology to Neuroethics and Human Rights

Chair: Davide Spanio (Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

 

10:30-11:00 Break 

                                                                            

17:15-18:30 ROUND TABLE: Patterns of human relationship, between friendship and hostility

Riccardo Chiaradonna (Università Roma Tre), Emiliano Trizio (Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Cecilia Martini (Padova Università)

Chair: Stefano Maso (Ca’ Foscari Venezia)      

 

 

Special session

Fundación Paideia-Galiza. A Coruña

 

Thursday, October 26th  

 

19:00-21:00 Lectures  

El problema de la singularidad del ser humano

Javier Gomá (Fundación Juan March, Madrid)

Bárbara Jiménez (Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastián)

Daniel Innerarity (European University Institute, Firenze)

Chair - Víctor Gómez Pin (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)