From: Giovanni Boniolo <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 11:27:50 +0100
ETHICS, BIOLOGY AND THE REPRESENTATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
14-15 December
Aula Magna Ca' Dolfin
Ca' Dolfin - Dorsoduro 3825/e - Venezia
14 December 2001
15,00 Opening (U. Curi Philosopher and Director of Istituto Italiano per
gli Studi Filosofici, Venezia)
I session
Chair: Danilo Mainardi (Ethologist, Univ. of Venezia)
15,30 Giovanni Boniolo (Philosopher of science, Univ. of Padova), Luca Pani
(Neuropharmacologist, CNR - Cagliari), The descent of instinct and the
ascent of ethics
16,15 Discussion
16,30 Philip Kitcher (Philosopher of science, Columbia University), Between
fragile altruism and morality: human evolution and the emergence of
normative guidance
17,15 Discussion
17,30 Break
17,45 Paolo Vezzoni (Geneticist, CNR - Milano), Genes, behavior and ethics:
considerations on the origin of moral behaviors based on an analysis of
genetic mutants
18,30 discussion
18,45 Alexander Rosenberg (Philosopher of biology, Duke University),
Darwin's nihilistic idea: evolution and the meaninglessness of life
19,30 Discussion
19,45 End of session
15 December 2001
II session
Chair: Giovanni Felice Azzone (Pathologist, Univ. of Padova)
9,00 Mario Ricciardi (Philosopher of law, Univ. of Milano), The minimal
content of natural law
9,45 Discussion
10,00 Elliott Sober (Philosopher of science, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison),
What do adaptive hypotheses assert, and how can they be tested?
10,45 Discussion
11,00 Break
11,15 Michael Ruse (Philosopher of biology, Florida State University),
Naturalistic approaches to ethics
12,00 Discussion
12,15 Eugenio Lecaldano (Philosopher of ethics, Univ. of Roma 1), Different
kinds of evolutionary ethics
13,00 Discussion
13,15 End of Session
III session
Chair: Bernardino Fantini (Historian of life sciences, Univ. of Geneva)
15,00 Aldo Fasolo (Neurobiologist, Univ. of Torino), The nature of
resemblance: homologues in the nervous system and behavior correspondence
15,45 Discussion
16,00 Stefano Parmigiani (Ethologist, Univ. of Parma), Nature, culture, and
ethics: an evolutionary biological approach
16,45 Discussion
17,00 Break
17,15 Francisco Ayala (Geneticist, Univ. of California), Biology to ethics:
an evolutionist's view of human nature
18,00 Discussion
18,15 Concluding remarks (G. Boniolo, U. Curi, G.Giorello)
Scientific Committee
Giovanni Boniolo
Umberto Curi
Scientific Secretariat: Gabriele De Anna - [log in to unmask]
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