Apologies (once again!) for the mistake in the
previous mail: the correct date of the seminar is
of course Oct. 22 (this week, and not last week
Oct. 15)!
Please distribute to others who may be interested...
You are hereby invited to a seminar in our sixth
interdisciplinary
<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>series on
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition (ECCO)
Time: Thursday, Oct. 22, 2-4 pm.
Place: Room B 0.036
(building B, level 0, close to the human sciences
computer rooms), on the
<http://www.vub.ac.be/english/infoabout/campuses/index.html>VUB
Campus Etterbeek (Brussels, Belgium), in
collaboration with MOSI. Coffee and drinks are
available. Free entrance: everybody welcome!
Metaphilosophical criteria for worldview comparison
<http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com/>Clément Vidal
(ECCO/CLEA, VUB)
In this talk, we will propose a list of ten
criteria to compare different worldviews. They
are classified in three broad categories:
objective criteria (objective consistency, scientific, scope)
subjective criteria (subjective consistency,
personal vision, personal coordination,
affectivity)
intersubjective criteria transmissibility,
collective vision, collective coordination).
We first define what a worldview is, and
explicate the approach used to build the
criteria. We then describe each criterion
individually and show what happens when we
violate each one. Then, we apply these criteria
to a concrete example of two "rival" worldviews:
the Flying Spaghetti Monster deity vs.
Intelligent Design. We draw more general fruitful
suggestions for the science-and-religion dialog.
Reference
<http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~clvidal/writings/Vidal2009-Metaphilosophical-Criteria.pdf>Download
the Working paper
Upcoming Seminars
29 Oct.
Jon Echanove (EASE):
Leadership and human experience
5 Nov.
David R. Weinbaum (Tel Aviv Univ.):
Thoughts on the future of human evolution
12 Nov.
Petter Braathen (Memetix, Oslo):
How do social systems relate to paradox?
19 Nov.
Hector Zenil (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Is algorithmic the nature of Nature?
Dec. 2
Solomon Marcus (Romanian Academy of Sciences)
Mistakes and failures as a source of creativity
More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108
--
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
"... a wealth of information creates a
poverty of attention" - Herbert A. Simon
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Simon>
