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I Conference on Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry We are pleased to announce that the third week of December there will be two meetings in which topics of fundamentals and philosophy of chemistry and physics will be presented and discussed. The first will be held on December 15, 2020 and to participate it is necessary to register...
Divine and Human Providence Ignacio Silva, research fellow at the Philosophy Institute, has edited, together with Simon Kopf, Visiting Lecturer at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, the volume Divine and Human Providence: Philosophical, Psychological and Theological Approaches (Routledge...
II Conference on History, Philosophy, and Didactics of Chemistry We announce that the II Conference on History, Philosophy and Didactics of Chemistry of the Southern Cone (JHFDQCS 2020), was held from November 26 to 28. The goal of these conferences is to bring together experts in the area in a space favorable to discussion and to exchange of...
Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence On November 18 a virtual colloquium on Artificial Intelligence was held within the framework of our Philosophy postgraduate program. The main speaker was Leonardo Rufiner, professor of “Artificial Intelligence” and director of the Research Institute for Signals, Systems and...
‘Hero’ in the media The virtual intervention program ‘Hero’ was widely covered in the media from July 26 to 29. It featured 11 times (4 in the radio and 7 in online media outlets) and reached an audience of over 1,8 million readers and listeners. The notes and interviews described the positive impact of...
Start of the new PhD and MA programmes Monday 20 July saw the start of the new MA and PhD blended programmes on Philosophy of Natural and Cognitive Sciences at the PHilosophy Institute, Austral University. After a long selection process in which the Institute received more than 60 applications from all over Latin America, 25 new...
‘Hero’ Implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic On March 19, 2020, the Argentine Government decreed mandatory preventive isolation as a necessary measure to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Argentina. The decree established that all Argentine inhabitants must remain in their homes and established the prohibition of...
“Experimental psychology and the notion of personhood” – Call for Papers We share this Scientia et Fides call for papers for the special issue “Experimental psychology and the notion of personhood”, edited by Juan F. Franck (U. Austral), Scott Harrower (Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia) and Ryan Peterson (Biola University, Los Angeles, CA)....
The Mission of the University To speak of the University is to speak of an unsusual reality: as an institution it begins at the dawn of the 12th century and that lasts to this day; it arises in the West but is present in all countries and cultures; and it includes very different educational projects under the same term....
Philosophical and psychological study of the individuality of the personal being We share this invitation to participate in an investigation in Psychology and Philosophy led by Juan Francisco Franck, researcher at the Institute. If you are interested, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/2WgnHYe
Philosphizing in uncertain times Pain is often presented as a trigger for philosophical questions. It may well be said that pain is an awkward way to become philosophers. Today we are all collectively assaulted by the same philosophical questions. The boring questions that we encountered in the philosophy book are...
New research in Cognitive Science of Religion Since April, Dr. María Emilia Oñate carries out her postdoctoral research based at the Institute of Philosophy with a CONICET scholarship co-financed by Austral University. She has a degree and a PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Católica Argentina. Since 2009 she has taught...

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