Academic Events
Body and Spirit: the dynamics of an antithesis
Friday 15th November 2013 | Onassis Cultural Center, Athens
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-12:00 1st Session
Ancient Philosophy
10:30-11:00 Stelios Virvidakis
Professor of Philosophy, Department of Methodology, History and History of Science, University of Athens
Relations between body and mind as a philosophical problem
11:00-11:30 Andrei Lebedev
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Crete
The Platonic concept of the soul and its archaic roots
11:30-12:00 Pavlos Kalligas
Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens
Body and soul relations in early Neo-Platonism
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-14:00 2nd Session
Matter as a way to spirit
12:30-13:00 Andrew Louth
Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Durham University/Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
The Theology of the In-between, with reference of matter and spirit
13:00-13:30 Urοs Τ. Todorovic
Department of Modern Greek Studies, Sydney University, Australia; Department of Social Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Transcendental byzantine body
13:30-14:00 George Papageorgiou
Ηonorary Professor of Surgery
Scientia versus sapientia: Wisdom and knowledge in the age of the scientific-technological revolution
14:00-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:00 3rd Session
The age of reason
15:30-16:00 Algis Mickunas
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Ohio University
The failure of reductionisms
16:00-16:30 Pavlos Kontos
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Patras
Corporeal self: a mind older than ourselves
16:30-17:00 Vasso Kindi
Associate Professor, Department of Methodology, History, and History of Science, University of Athens
Disembodied knowledge
17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 4th Session
Modern times
17:30-18:00 Anastasios Ioannis Metaxas
Emeritus Professor, University of Athens
The rhetoric of the body: A questioning and questioned image
18:00-18:30 Stavroula Tsinorema
Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, University of Crete
The mind in the body. Reflections from Science and Ethics
18:30-19:00 Lina Nikolakopoulou
Lyric writer
The being of existence
