Rome, 2024
Pontifical Gregorian University
September 5-9, 2024
Truth, Pluralism, and Methods in Philosophy
Conference Program
THURSDAY 5th September 2024
14.00 – 19.30 Arrival17.00 – 19.30 Registration and payment / Main Entrance, Central Palace19.00 – Supper / Dining Room20.00 – 22.00 Welcome evening by Eric Charmetant and Lubos Rojka with the presence of Dalibor Renić (President of the Jesuit Conference of European Provincials)FRIDAY 6th September 202409.00 – 09.10 Welcome (Lubos Rojka, Università Gregoriana, Roma)09.10 – 09.20 Introduction into the topic (Eric Charmetant)09.20 – 10.30 Conference 1: Patrick Zoll (Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich): Is Philosophy Necessarily Aristotelian in Nature? An Overlooked Implication of R. G. Collingwood’s Defense of Philosophy in his An Essay on Philosophical Method.Respondent: Johannes Stoffers (Università Gregoriana, Roma)11.00 – 12.10 Conference 2: Georg Sans (Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich): Beyond Practical Faith and Speculative Knowledge: Which Truth?Respondent: Terry Walsh (Università Gregoriana, Roma) by video (Vietnam)14.30 – 15.40 Conference 3: Piotr Janik (Aarhus, Denmark): Einstein's "Comprehensible World": Searching for Truth.Respondent: Jeevan Mendonsa (Università Gregoriana, Roma)16.10 – 17.20 Conference 4: Andreas Lind (Università Gregoriana, Roma): The Notion of Truth in Marion’s Phenomenology.Respondent: Szczepan Urbaniak (Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow)18.00 Eucharist with Paul Pace, Socius to the Provincial of Euro-Mediterranean Province.19.00 – Supper / Dining Room20.00 – 22.00 Paul Pace, Socius to the Provincial of Euro-Mediterranean Province.SATURDAY 7th September 20249.00 – 10.10 Conference 5: Eric Charmetant (Facultés Loyola Paris): Scientific Truth in the Age of Agnotology. (In French)Respondent: Secondo Bongiovanni (Pontifical Theological Faculty South Italy, Naples); (In French)10.40 – 11.50 Conference 6: Jacek Poznanski (Jesuit University Ignatianum, Krakow): Method in Natural Science and Truth.Respondent: Bruno Nobre (Catholic University of Portugal, Braga)12.15 Eucharist - Welcome speech: Mark A. Lewis, Rector of the Gregorian University.14.30 – 18.00 Excursion – Robert Danieluk: Church of St. Ignatius (15.00-16.00); Rooms of St. Ignatius and Church Del Gesu (16.30-18.30), on the way: Casa Santa Marta, Collegio Romano;19.00 Dinner in a restaurantSUNDAY 8th September 20249.00 – 10.10 Conference 7: Raúl Gonzáles Favre (Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid): The Dynamics of Opinion in the Internet-mediated Polity and the Role of Organized Religion.Respondent: Sergio Gadea Caballero (Madrid)10.40 – 12.45 Evaluation & planning: Eric Charmetant15.00 – 18.00 Meeting and Eucharist at General Curia with Benoît Malvaux, Procurator Generalis19.00 – Supper / Dining Room20.00 – Informal session