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Tuesday, August 6
1:00-3:00
Registration, Tea and Coffee
Room 227
3:00-3:30
Welcome and Conference Information
Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)
Gunnar Broberg, Lund University (Sweden)
Room 201
3:30-4:15
Opening Panel on the History and Purpose of the ICP
Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)
Responses:
Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)
Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)
Room 201
4:15-4:30
Break
4:30-5:30
Keynote Address
Keith Ward, Oxford University (UK)
Absolute and Personalist Idealism
Room 201
5:30-8:00
Welcome Reception
Room 227
Wednesday, August 7
9:00-10:20
Session A:
O. A. Oyowe, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
Velleman and the Dis-guises of Self
Geraldine Ng, University of Reading (UK)
Persons, Agency, and the Operations of Blame
Commentator: Richard C. Prust
Room 202
Session B:
Anthony L. Cashio, Manchester University (USA)
Embracing a Personalist Approach to Environmental Philosophy
Jason M. Bell, University of New Brunswick and Mt. Allison University (Canada)
Toward a Methodology Against Genocide
Commentator: Federico Lauria
Room 109
10:20-10:40
Tea and Coffee
10:40-12:00
Session A:
Robert F. DeVall, Jr., West Chester University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Keeping the “I” in the “I-Thou” Relationship: Pringle-Pattison’s Rejection of an Impersonal Absolute
Douglas McDermid, Trent University (Canada)
Are Selves Sui Generis? McTaggart on Immortality and the Argument from Impermanence
Commentator: Jan Olof Bengtsson
Room 202
Session B1 (10:40-11:20):
Anne Runehov, Copenhagen University (Denmark)
The Process of Believing
Commentator: Eike-Henner W. Kluge
Session B2 (11:20-12:00):
Janne Kontala, Åbo Akademi (Finland)
Eastern Spirituality in Sweden: Identifying Emerging Worldview Patterns Amongst Practitioners
Commentator: Ferdinando Sardella
Room 109
12:00-2:00
Lunch
2:00-3:45
Plenary Panel on Hindu Personalism
Kenneth R. Valpey, Oxford University (UK)
Personhood as Multivalent Reality in Premodern Indian Theography
Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa (Israel)
Resorting to Aesthetics: The Articulation of Divine Personhood in the Vaishnava Vedanta Tradition
Ferdinando Sardella, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Modern Hindu Personalism
Room 201
3:45-4:30
Tea and Coffee
4:30-5:50
Session A:
Lucian Delescu, Berkeley College (USA)
On Darwin’s Account of Consciousness and its Implications for a General Theory of Person
Victoria Höög, Lund University (Sweden)
Persona and Ethos in Contemporary Technoscientific Cultures
Commentator: Anthony L. Cashio
Room 202
Session B:
Soyoung Park, Independent Scholar, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
Suspended Subjectivity: Artistic Intention in Making Art
Jonnie Eriksson, Lund University and Halmstad University (Sweden)
Realist by Nature, by Nature Abstract: Personalist Aesthetics in Mounier and Henry
Commentator: James McLachlan
Room 109
5:50-6:00
Break
6:00-7:00
Plenary
Juan Manuel Burgos, CEU San Pablo University (Spain)
A New Personalist Proposal: Modern Ontological Personalism
Room 201
Thursday, August 8
9:00-10:20
Session A:
Bogumił Gacka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (Poland)
Personalism in Brazil
Andris Sevels, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Personalistic Mariology of John Paul II
Room 202
Session B:
James Beauregard, Independent Scholar, Manchester, NH (USA)
Neuroethics: A Personalist Approach
Eike-Henner W. Kluge, University of Victoria (Canada)
Personhood, Brain Death and Resource Allocation: The Implications of Aquinas’ Conception of Human Persons
Commentator: Juan Manuel Burgos
Room 109
10:20-10:40
Tea and Coffee
10:40-11:40
Plenary
Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
The Creative Person: Neuropsychological Perspectives
Room 201
AFTERNOON FREE
7:00
Conference Dinner
Friday, August 9
9:00-10:20
Session A:
Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)
Scheler and the Existence of the Impersonal
James McLachlan, Western Carolina University (USA)
Levinas, the Person, and Eschatology
Commentator: Philip Cronce
Room 202
Session B:
Jerzy Król, State University of Higher Education in Chełm (Poland)
Upbringing and Education from the Personalist Perspective
Inger Enkvist, Lund University (Sweden)
Personalism: Identifying Two Opposite Views of the Teaching Profession
Commentator: Thomas O. Buford
Room 109
Session C:
Agnieszka Gąsior-Mazur, Independent Scholar, Lublin (Poland)
The Development of Person vs. Building the Value of a Company
Ewa Smołka, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Openness to Others as a Way of Personal Development
Room 022
10:20-10:40
Tea and Coffee
10:40-12:00
Session A:
Richard C. Prust, St. Andrews University (USA)
The Ragged Edge of our Personal Past
Federico Lauria and Alain Pé-Curto, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
The Situationist Boomerang
Commentator: Michael Thompson
Room 202
Session B:
J. J. MacIntosh, University of Calgary (Canada)
Persons, Identity, and Irenaean Theodicies
Joseph Diekemper, Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Temporality, Creation, and Divine Personhood
Commentator: Eoin O’Connell
Room 109
12:00-2:00
Lunch
2:00- 3:45
Plenary Panel on the Roots of the Philosophical Problem of the Person
Lorenzo Greco, Oxford University (UK)
Hume and the Narrative of the Self
Michael Thompson, University of North Texas (USA)
The Antinomy of Identity: Personal Identity and Time in Modern Philosophy
Daryl L. Hale, Western Carolina University (USA)
Persons as Supra Pretium: Kant’s Neglected Argument for Personalism?
Room 201
3:45-4:30
Tea and Coffee
4:30-5:50
Session A:
Argun Abrek Canbolat, Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Personhood: From Physical to Social
Simon Smith, Independent Scholar, Haslemere, Surrey (UK)
A Convergence of Cosmologies: Personal Analogies in Modern Physics and Modern Metaphysics
Commentator: Daryl L. Hale
Room 202
Session B:
Ian Winchester, University of Calgary (Canada)
Collingwood’s Conception of Personhood and its Relation to Language Use
Giusy Gallo, University of Calabria (Italy)
Dialogue and Language: The Way to Be a Person
Commentator: Randall E. Auxier
Room 109
5:50-6:00
Break
6:00-7:00
Plenary
Claes G. Ryn, Catholic University of America (USA)
“Idealistic” Dreaming: The Imagination of Unbounded Egotism
Room 201
Saturday, August 10
9:00-10:20
Session A1 (9:00-9:40):
Erik Persson, Independent Scholar, Harlösa (Sweden)
The Catholic Critics of Personalism: Before and After Father Meinvielle
Commentator: Jerzy Król
Session A2 (9:40-10:20):
Philip Cronce, Chicago State University (USA)
Dewey, Rorty, and Honors Education after the Fall of the Academy
Room 202
Session B1 (9:00-9:40):
Susanna Åkerman-Hjern, Independent Scholar, Stockholm (Sweden)
Swedenborg and the Grand Human
Commentator: James McLachlan
Session B2 (9:40-10:20):
Kerstin Maria Pahl, Humboldt University (Germany)
Timing Life: Portraiture and Biography in 18th Century England
Commentator: Jonnie Eriksson
Room 109
Session C1 (9:00-9:40):
Guillermo Barron, Red Deer College (Canada)
Gender and Personhood
Commentator: Giusy Gallo
Room 022
10:20-10:40
Tea and Coffee
10:40-12:00
Session A:
Christina Conroy, Morehead State University (USA)
Branch-Relative Identity
Eoin O’Connell, Manhattan College (USA)
Inferences to Personhood
Commentator: Randall E. Auxier
Room 202
Session B:
Kenny Siu Sing Huen, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (Brunei)
The Crux of Living a Human Life: From Heidegger to Wittgenstein
Alastair Beattie, University of the Andes (Venezuela)
Person as Platonic Idea Form
Commentator: Douglas McDermid
Room 109
12:00-12:10
Break
12:10-12:40
Closing Panel: Conference Overview and the State of the Person
Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA)
Jan Olof Bengtsson, Lund University (Sweden)
Thomas O. Buford, Furman University (USA)
Room 201
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For over a decade now, the reigning consensus has held that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this astute, original, and surprising investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.
“I det andliga spänningsfält, som vi kallar Västerlandet, intager dialogen mellan teologi och profanvetenskap, mellan det intellektiva och det rationella, mellan ‘tro’ och ‘vetande’ en rangplats. Under det att profanvetenskapen observerar, systematiserar, analyserar det som är tillgängligt för våra sinnesorgan, påtager sig teologin den svåra uppgiften att fatta det ofattbara, att utsäga det outsägliga. Teologin skall i jordiska termer, i jordiska begreppsformer, söka uttolka de gudomliga sanningar, som ej är tillgängliga för rationell prövning. Men vi kan inte ‘bevisa’ Gud vetenskapligt – men är detta en brist hos teologin? Är det inte en brist hos vetenskapen?”
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