Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Philosphy Conference schedule of workshops announced






















Program of parallel sessions (final)
Parallel session 1Wednesday 17th 

August 2011, 11.30 – 12.30 hr



Workshop 1 - Epistemology


Dooyeweerd and Kant in dialogue on free will and more.
Arjan de Visser

Translating reality. Victor Morales



Workshop 2 - Epistemology
Demarcation criteria and creational order. Renato Coletto
Changes in pre-scientific epistemic frameworks:  random or constrained?, Ananka Loubser

Workshop 3 - Social philosophy
International Development, Civil Society, and the Complex Act-Structure
of the Human Person: Creation Order and the Poor.
Matthew Kaemingk

The problem of the concept of an 'international community'. Romel Bagares

Workshop 4 - History of philosophy
The Foundation of Creation Order. Josephine van Kessel
The Creation in Theology of fr. Dumitru Staniloae. Reznichenko Egor

Workshop 5 - Philosophy of life sciences
Current ideas on law and emergence in natural sciences. Pieter Stoker
An Attempt to Identify and Qualify the Meaning of 'Information'. Duncan Roper

Workshop 6 - Ethics and practical philosophy
A Reformational Perspective for Health Care. Jim Rusthoven
Reflections on care for the dying. Jeroen Hasselaar


Invited Workshop 1 - Civil society
Speaker: Govert Buijs
Respondent: Jan Hoogland


Parallel session 2Wednesday 
17 August 2011, 15.45 – 17.15 hr



Workshop 7 - Systematic philosophy 
Order, being human, and trust. Michael and Marita Heyns

Loving the law. Aron Reppmann

That word - I do not think it means what you think it means. Neal de Roo

Workshop 8 - Systematic philosophy
Reformational Philosophy as an ontology of actuality. Rudi Hayward
The paradoxes of Darwinian dis-order. Robert A. Maundy
Kant and the Evil Order. Dennis Vanden Auweele

Workshop 9 - Philosophy of religion
Theological concerns about the future of Creation Order. Anné Verhoef
Communion with Christ, moral order and hermeneutics. Hans Burger
Heaven, Love and Order. Clay Cooke

Workshop 10 - Ethics and practical philosophy
Ethics as a religious activity. Martin A. Rice, jr.
Religious construct or religious disclosure? Maarten Verkerk et al.
Towards a normative model for the practice of cooperation in development. Henk Jochemsen

Workshop 11 - Philosophy of technology
Virtual worlds: order at will? Marc de Vries
Tiengemeten as an icon of our current culture. Peter Jansen
A Philosophical Investigation of Computers and Procrastination. Nick Breems


Invited Workshop 2 - Love and justice
Speaker: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Respondent: Sander Griffioen

Invited Workshop 3 - Philosophy of religion
Speaker: Mikael Stenmark
Respondent: Guus Labooij



Parallel session 3 Thursday 
18 August 2011, 13.45 – 15.00 hr




Workshop 12 - Systematic philosophy 
Types of aspectual analysis, and their contributions. Andrew Basden
The affordance of Nature. Vincent Blok
Nuancing emergentist claims: Lessons from physics. Arnold E. Sikkema

Workshop 13 - Systematic philosophy
On what there is: the three-legged stool of experience. Jeremy Ive
The debate on natural order in Chinese thought. Koenraad Elst
Does methodological naturalism imply ontogical naturalism? Tiddo Mooibroek

Workshop 14 - Philosophy of religion
For the love of wisdom. Nick Ansell
Creation order in patristic tradition and modern cosmology. Dmitry Kiryanov
Order as telos of the universe. Pater Edmund Waldstein

Workshop 15 - Philosophy of religion
Four patterns of creation’s meaning. James W. Skillen
Creation, fall, redemption, and openness in creation. Don Petcher
Creation orders from Lutheran perspective. Henk Schaeffer

Workshop 16 - Social philosophy
Social media and the normative structure of corporate communication.
Jan van der Stoep
Democratic norms as a religious voice. Kyle David Bennett

Workshop 17 - History of philosophy
Jan Woltjer on Logos, order and knowledge. Rob Nijhoff
Stoker’s philosophy of the creation idea. Henk Stoker
Researching all that is “under the sun”. Chris Gousmett


Invited Workshop 4 - Philosophy of organizations
Speaker: Maarten Verkerk
Respondent: Andrew Basden



Parallel session 4Friday 19 August 2011, 11.00 – 12.30 hr
Workshop 18 - Philosophy of religion
Creation order and the flux of fashion: Beyond Baudrillard and Benjamin. Robert S. Covolo
Properties of the imago Dei. Tony Bolos
Creation order and directional drift within marriage. Guilherme de Carvalho

Workshop 19 - Ethics and practical philosophy
In order to learn. Doug Blomberg
The concept of order in the theory of Gaia: ethical
and cultural implications. Tatjana Kochetkova
The performance of order. Jonathan Weverink

Workshop 20 - Ethics and practical philosophy
How can the concepts of order in creation and eschatological hope
help in an ethical response to the financial, economic and ecological crises?
Martin de Wit

The world’s most unsustainable development. John Hiemstra

Using philosophy to bridge the gap between business theory
and business practice. Ries Haverkamp et al.

Workshop 21 - History of philosophy
Vollenhoven and Dooyeweerd: their emerging difference. Tony Tol
The misappropriation of reformational thinking by the
American Christian Right. Jeremy Hexham
From Dooyeweerd cabinet to minority cabinet. Hans-Martien ten Napel


Invited Workshop 5 - Philosophy of language, with special emphasis 
on the role of metaphor Speaker: Elaine Botha
Respondent:  Leon de Bruin
Invited Workshop 6 - Philosophy of biology; emergence
Speakers: Dick Stafleu and Conor Cunningham




Parallel session 5 Friday 

19 August 2011, 13.30 – 14.45 hr

Workshop 22 - History of philosophy

 Creation theology in Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'. Frank Sawyer
On Voegelin. Johannes Corrodi
Kierkegaard's criticism of romantic irony. Karin Kustassoo

Workshop 23 - Philosophy of technology
Technology and the Christian ground-motive. Joseph Kirby
Addiction, creation order and the call for meaning. Frans Koopmans
Normativity and disclosure in systemic technologies. Maarten Verkerk et al.


Invited Workshop 7 - On the work of William Desmond
Speakers: Sander Griffioen, Dennis Vanden Auweele
Respondent: William Desmond

Invited Workshop 8 - International Order 
Speakers:  Simon Polinder, Romel Bagares, Lucas Freire
Respondent: James Skillen

Invited Workshop 9 - Creation order between mathematical Platonism 
and constructivism. The possibility of a Christian mathematics.
Speaker: Danie Strauss
Respondent: Dick Stafleu


P1 - Presentation of partner organizations
P2 - Meeting Thinknet members

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