STOQ Project

Our society is being dominated more and more by science and technology. These two areas have provided us with so many discoveries enabling us to understand our universe as well as numerous practical solutions aimed at alleviating suffering stemming from age, sickness and disability. Yet, their impact on nature and humanity isn't always a positive one. We feel that the human being is often considered ... read all

Didattica delle scienze. Temi, esperienze, prospettive

Il volume Didattica delle scienze. Temi, esperienze, prospettive rappresenta – all’interno delle attività del Progetto STOQ riguardanti il rapporto tra scienza e fede – uno dei contributi specifici dello STOQ UPS Project dell’Università Pontificia Salesiana di Roma. Esso è indirizzato – in relazione all’identità culturale, ecclesiale e carismatica di questa istituzione accademica – alla considerazione dell’ambito educativo come luogo particolarmente significativo di incontro tra religione, scienze umane e scienze naturali, riconoscendo uno spazio importante – nell’ambito epistemologico ed interdisciplinare – al ruolo e alla mediazione della filosofia.

Il testo, composto da una Prefazione, un’Introduzione e da 21 interventi – raggruppati in tre sezioni tematiche – intende contribuire alla riflessione e alla formazione ... read all, italian language

• STOQ, Workshop di primavera: "Intenzionalità, Intersoggettività, Spiritualità. Dalla Neurofisiologia alla Filosofia della Mente"
  April 30, 2010, Aula Pio XI, Pontifical Lateran University, P.za S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4 - 00120, Vatican City
  Information: Ufficio Grandi Eventi, Pontifical Lateran University; tel 0669895676-699; fax 06 69895697; eventi@pul.it
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• On Religious Secularization: a Chinese perspective
  Culture, society, science, faith and reason. Seminar of Prof. Xiaohong Zhu, Department of Religious Studies, School of Philosophy - Fudan University, Shanghai – People’s Republic of China.
  Friday 30th April 2010, h. 10.35 – 13, Room FA01 of Pontifical Salesian University
  Information: filosofia@unisal.it; prof. D. Mauro Mantovani: mantovani@unisal.it; 06.87290625
  
  
• Botany of the Shroud
  Science and Faith Diploma Program: lecture of prof. Avinoam Danin (Hebrew Jerusalem University), and presentation of his book "Botany of the Shroud", recently published
  Tuesday 4 may 2010, from 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm, Aula Magna, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190 - 00163 Roma
  Information: tel. 0669889611; fax 0669881871; segreteria@urbaniana.edu
  Link lecture - Science and Faith Diploma Program
  

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STOQ Congress 2009

From STOQ Congress 2009, Biological Evolution. Facts and Thoeries; we publish program, speakers list, abstracts of their lectures, and a photogallery of the event; other documents and images are available on web site SRM - Science and Religion in Media; video of Press Conference are visible on YouTube.
Link STOQ Congress 2009

Endogenous Processes and Causation in Brain and Behavioral Sciences

Workshop, organized at Domus Sanctae Marthae, Vatican City, by Pontifical Council for Culture, STOQ Project and Gregorian Pontifical University, has had presence of some of the most important researchers in fields of neurology, psycholoy and psychiatry. Event has held behind closed doors, but there available some images and information on its contents, while conclusions and proceedings are going to be presented within a next Congress.
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Pontifical Magisterium

Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Bishops of Catholic Church on relationship between faith and reason

My Venerable Brother Bishops,
Health and the Apostolic Blessing!

Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8-9; 63:2-3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).

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