EVENTS

STOQ 2005 – THE STOQ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON «INFINITY IN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY»

November 09-11, 2005; Rome, Italy. Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City; under the high patronage of Pontifical Council for Culture, and inside STOQ - Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest - Project

- Presentation

It has been a long time since distinguished scientists, philosophers and theologians had an occasion to discuss in an International Conference the theme of infinity and the role it plays in their respective disciplines.

• Is infinity in modern mathematics simply a formal tool without any referential value?

• In modern cosmological theories is the universe finite or infinite in space and/or time, or is this question ill-posed?

• Is the traditional assertion of the infinity of the human mind a tenable ontological position to justify human individual freedom and rationality given modern cognitive sciences?

• Are the infinity of human freedom and the infinity of God’s freedom mutually exclusive, as some 20th Century philosophers claimed?

These are some of the questions speakers will be invited to address during the different Conference Sections on:

• “Infinity in Physics and Cosmology”,

• “Infinity in Mathematics and Logic”,

• “Infinity in Ontology and Mind Philosophy”, and

• “God's Infinity in the Different Theological Traditions ”.