Interdisciplinary Conference: Einstein meets Magritte
Scientific Programme
Sunday, May 28, 1995
14:00 - 18:00 Registrations
Monday, May 29, 1995
07:30 - 12:00 Registrations
13:00 - 14:00 Opening Ceremony
- Welcome by the Rector of the University, Els Witte
- 'Einstein meets Magritte', a presentation
14:00 - 15:00 Plenary session 1
Ilya PRIGOGINE, University of Brussels, Belgium
The End of Certitudes
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary session 2
John ZIMAN, Bristol University, United Kingdom
Basically, it's purely academic
16.30 - 17.30 Plenary session 3
Barbara HERNNSTEIN-SMITH, Duke University, USA
The Microdynamics of Incommensurability: The Example
of Philip Kitcher's 'Advancement of Science'
17:30 - 18:30 Plenary session 4
Rom HARRE, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Special relativity as grammar
20:00 Workshop I Science, Society and the University
Tuesday, May 30, 1995
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary session 5
Francisco J. VARELA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Brain and Consciousness. The Hard problems
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary session 6
William H. CALVIN, Washington University, Seattle, USA.
What Creativity in Science and Art Tell Us about How
the Brain Must Work
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Parallel sessions (3) A1-A2-A3 (contributed papers)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Parallel sessions (3) B1-B2-B3 (contributed papers)
15:00 - 17:00 Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony
20:00 Banquet
Wednesday, May 31, 1995
09:00 - 13:00 Satellite Symposia
09:00 - 13:00 Parallel sessions (5) C1-C2-C3-C4-C5 (contributed
papers)
Coffee bar from 10:30 till 11:30 without programme break
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Plenary session 7
Robert EDWARDS, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Human Conception in Today's Society
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary session 8
Adolf GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh, USA
The Hermeneutic versus the Scientific Conception of
Psychoanalysis. An Unsuccessful Effort to Chart a
Prototype for the Human Sciences
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session 9
Zygmunt BAUMAN, Leeds University, United Kingdom
Postmodern Adventures of Immortality
20:00 Workshop II The Nature of Life and Death
Thursday, June 1, 1995
09:00 - 13:00 Satellite Symposia
09:00 - 13:00 Parallel sessions (5) D1-D2-D3-D4-D5 (contributed
papers)
'Coffee bar' from 10:30 till 11:30 without programme break
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Plenary session 10
Bas VAN FRAASSEN, Princeton University, USA
The Scientific Image and the Manifest Image
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary session 11
Linda SCHELE, Austin Texas University, USA
Cosmos in Ancient Maya Symbolism
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session 12
Robert PIRSIG, Portsmouth (NH), USA
Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
18:00 - 19:00 Plenary session 13
Julian JAYNES, Princeton University, USA
Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind.
20:30 Workshop III Worldviews and the Problem of Synthesis
Friday, June 2, 1995
09:00 - 13:00 Satellite Symposia
09:00 - 13:00 Parallel sessions (5) E1-E2-E3-E4-E5 (contributed
papers)
Coffee bar from 10:30 till 11:30 without programme break
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Plenary session 14
W. Brian ARTHUR, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Human Reasoning and the End of Certainty in Economics
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary session 15
Constantin PIRON, Switzerland
Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session 16
Heinz VON FOERSTER, California, USA
This is not Albert Einstein
20:00 Dance Performance Rosas/ Anne Teresa DE KEERSMAEKER
Saturday 3 June 1995
10:00 - 12:30 Workshop IV A World in Transition
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 17:00 Open Tribune
17:00 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony
Late-night performances from the work of Jan FABRE will be scheduled
throughout the conference.