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• Claudia Vanney y Juan F. Franck won an Expanded Reason Award After receiving 367 works from 170 universities and over 30 countries, an international jury selected Claudia Vanney and Juan F. Franck’s book ¿Determinismo o indeterminismo? Grandes preguntas de...
• “Of dreams and nightmares: lights and shadows of the transhumanist program” Dr. Mariano Asla, researcher of the project “The Brain and the Personal Self”, gave the plenary lecture “Of dreams and nightmares: lights and shadows of the transhumanist...
• Visit of Dr Andrew Pinsent At the end of September we received Dr. Andrew Pinsent, Research Director of The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion – University of Oxford. Dr. Pinsent is also Research Fellow of...
• Interdisciplinary Research: Science, Philosophy, and Theology in Dialogue In the framework of the final conference “The Place of the Person in the Cosmos” organized by the Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion of the University of Oxford (capstone...
• Strengths and weaknesses of the emergent conception of the person From September 25th to 27th took place at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the final conference of the project “Science, Philosophy, and Theology. Latin American...
• Interdisciplinary Research Week “From the Brain to the Self” From July 31 to August 3, the Interdisciplinary Research Week “From the Brain to the Self” will take place in the Pilar Campus. The Week comprises the following activities: ...
• Library Grant The Philosophy Institute obtained a USD 6,000 library grant for the purchase of books in the field of science, philosophy and theology. The new expansion of the Institute’s...
• “Business and politics” Nobody doubts that in the modern economy there is no more place for companies that only pretend to make money. But how far can and should be the participation of companies in the construction of...
• Lights and shadows of transhumanism The Faculty of Biomedical Science with the Institute of Philosophy invite to the seminar “Lights and Shadows of Transhumanism”, on May 18th: Schedule: 9:30 –...