The seminar will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd and Thursday, August 4th Convictions and CertaintiesThe lecture will address current issues in the philosophy of knowledge. It will be given by Professor Juan José Sanguineti, Professor of Philosophy of Knowledge at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome.

Program:

1. Understanding, objectification, and intentionality.
2. First principles.
3. The forms of rationality: science, philosophy, and theology
4. Truth and relativism.
5. Belief, faith, and evidence.

Opening hours: Tuesday 2nd and Thursday 4th August from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Location: Classroom of the Institute of Philosophy

This seminar is one of the four mandatory seminars of the Humanistic Studies Program.

Registration address: peh@austral.edu.ar

Juan José Sanguineti He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Navarra. He teaches Philosophy of Knowledge at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome). He is the author of fifteen books and approximately 90 scholarly articles on epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of nature, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience. He was the director of the scientific committee for the STOQ III project (Rome, 2007-2010, University of the Holy Cross, Neuroscience area). He regularly teaches doctoral courses and seminars at various universities in Latin America. He is a full member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Argentine Thomistic Society. He serves on the scientific committee of the journal “Acta Philosophica” (University of the Holy Cross).