Warsaw Research Group
Philosophy and Fundamentals of Science
Events
Seminars
with the Polish Philosophical SocietyProf. Witold Strawiński Lecture on Problem of Two Cultures (Science and Humanities)
March 14, 2011, 5.15 PM, Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy (Warsaw, 3 Krakowskie Przedmiescie St., room 313)
Seminar on Philosophy of Ulrich Schrade
January 10, 2011, 5.45 PM, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Warsaw, Nowy Swiat St.)
Monthly internal seminars are announced by e-mail.
Guest Lectures
most of them in cooperation with the Christian Professors' ForumWarsaw Science & Religion lecture of 2010
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Breshears
on topic Are Modern Science and Christianity Compatible?
given on June 9, 2010, 2 PM, in lecture room on 4th floor of the SophiaWarsaw Group host institution.
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. Fund. Techn. Res., lecture room on 4th floor, Warsaw, 5B Pawinskiego Str.
Announcement in Polish
Program of the Warsaw Science & Religion
lectures
given in May 7-8, 2009 at the Warsaw LSI host institution.
Speakers: Dr. Jeffrey D. Breshears
David Richardson, MTh (Oxon)
Prof. Andrew McIntosh (University of Leeds, UK) guest lectures:
April 16, 2008 - Flying time directions - information, entrophy and DNA
April 17, 2008 - Project, thermodynamics and information. Introduction to scientific creationism
Dr. Stefano Visintin (Pontifical Athenaeum Sant Anselm, Italy)
1. Friday, July 6, 2007, 12:00 p.m. - Intelligent Design Movement and Theology Modernism and Postmodernism in Crisis
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Lecture room 108, Warsaw, Swietokrzyska 21 str.
Abstract of the lecture: Intelligent Design Movement is trying to explain phenomena of the physical and biological world postulating the existence of an Intelligent Being; and this, it is claimed, following a purely scientific way of thinking. In so doing it wants to give an explanation of our universe and of the origin of life that natural sciences can not explain in a satisfactory way. It also wants to build a bridge between modern natural sciences and theology, reintroducing the concept of a world seen as the plan of an Intelligent Being that has been the main link between these two disciplines from the beginning of modern science. But is this a correct approach to this kind of problems? Is it really doing a good service to theology? And to what extent? Answering these questions will require clarifying the relation of theology with natural sciences. But this will give also the opportunity to see how theology deals with causality and motivation.
Dr. Thomas Woodward (Trinity College of Florida, USA)
1. Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 5:15 p.m. - The Origin of Life: A Paradigm in Crisis
Address: Warsaw University, Department of Chemistry, Lecture room 338, Warsaw, Pasteura 1 str.
2. Thursday, May 10, 2007, 1:30 p.m. - Modernism and Postmodernism in Crisis
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Lecture room 108, Warsaw, Swietokrzyska 21 str.
Prof. Roberto Poli (University of Trento)
1. Wednesday, March 28th, 2007, 12:00 a.m. - Layers of complexity
2. Thursday, March 29th, 2007, 3:00 p.m. - Introducing Ontology
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Lecture room 108, Warsaw, Swietokrzyska 21 str.
Prof. Donald G. Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana)
1. Wednesday, May 10th, 2006, 10:00 a.m. - Ebla to the Electronic Dream: The Role of Historical Perspectives in Professional Education
2. Wednesday, May 10th, 2006, 3:00 p.m. - Libraries in World History: An Ancient Institution in the New Globalization
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Lecture room 108, Warsaw, Swietokrzyska 21 str.
Dr. Michael J. Breen (Head of Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Limerick)
1. Friday, March 3th, 2006 at 10 p.m. - Dreams of a simpler future: Exploring the relationship between technological attitudes and general happiness
Address: Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. Fund. Techn. Res., conference room 100, Warsaw, Swietokrzyska 21 str.