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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
address: 1504 Sofia, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.

Hotel Slavyanska Besseda
address: Sofia 1000", Slavianska" str. No.3

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Final Program

18 June 2009

THEME: ONTOLOGY AFTER WHITEHEAD (PROCESS ONTOLOGY)
Hall 1
(Sofia University)

8,30 - 9,00
Registration
(at the Reception Desk in Hall 1)

MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Vesselin Petrov (Bulgaria)

9,00 - 9,15
Opening of the conference

9,15 - 10,45
Johanna Seibt (Denmark)
Functions, Norms, and Values: A Process-Ontological Analysis

10,45 - 11,00
Coffee break

11,00 - 12,30
Bruno Leclercq (Belgium)
Reconsidering the Alternative Between the Referentialist and the Semantical Paradigms in Contemporary Ontology

12,30 - 14,00
Break

FIRST AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Johanna Seibt (Denmark)

14,00 - 14,30
Gary Herstein (USA)
Spatial Reasoning as the Bridge Between Logic and Metaphysics

14,30 - 15,00
Emeline Deroo (Belgium)
On the Potentialities of an Encounter between Alfred North Whitehead and Gilbert Simondon


15,00 - 15,30
Bogdan Ogrodnik (Poland)
How can we verify metaphysical hypotheses? On necessary connection between metaphysics, ontology and science


15,30 - 16,00
Coffee break

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Bruno Leclercq (Belgium)

16,00 - 16,30
Vesselin Petrov (Bulgaria)
Process Ontology in the Context of Applied Philosophy

16,30 - 17,00
Tsena Zhelyazkova (Bulgaria)
Ontological Reflections on the New

17,00 - 17,30
Wu-Tso Lin (Taiwan)
Visible and Invisible Worlds – Research on the Ontology of Film

17,30 - 18,00
Frederic Tremblay (USA)
Are Processes Relations? An Unresolved Aporia


18,00 - 20,00
Cocktail party




19 June 2009

THEME: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY ONTOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Hall 1
(Sofia University)

MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Ivan Kolev (Bulgaria)

9,00 - 10,30
Dermot Moran (Ireland)
Sartre’s Ontological Phenomenology of Embodiment

10,30 - 11,00
Coffee break

11,00 - 12,30
Nenad Miscevic (Slovenia)
The Ontology of Secondary Qualities

12,30 - 14,00
Break

FIRST AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Dermot Moran (Ireland)

14,00 - 14,30
Peter Costello (USA)
Comparative Ontologies: Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty on Intersubjectivity

14,30 - 15,00
Ivan Kolev (Bulgaria)
The Overcoming of Metaphysics

15,00 - 15,30
Ivelina Ivanova (Bulgaria)
The Phenomenological Ontology of Martin Heidegger as a Foundation for Redefining the Concept of Interpretative Approaches in Theory of History

15,30 - 16,00
Coffee break

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Nenad Miscevic (Slovenia)

16,00 - 16,30
Nikolay Milkov (Germany and Bulgaria)
Towards a Reistic Social Ontology

16,30 - 17,00
Ina Dimitrova (Bulgaria)
Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality

17,00 - 17,30
Fabrice Pataut (France)
Ontology, Skepticism. About the Senses and Ordinary Language

17,30 - 18,00
Marina Bakalova (Bulgaria)
Ontology of Abilities



20 June 2009

THEME: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ONTOLOGY
Hall 1
(Sofia University)

MORNING SESSION
Moderator: Aneta Karageorgieva (Bulgaria)

9,00 - 10,30
Roberto Poli (Italy)
Towards an Age of Synthesis. The Need of a New Vision

10,30 - 11,00
Coffee break

11,00 - 12,30
Liliana Albertazzi (Italy)
The Matter of Qualities

12,30 - 14,00
Break

FIRST AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Roberto Poli (Italy)

14,00 - 14,30
Anguel Stefanov (Bulgaria)
Causality: Ontological Principle or Explanatory Scheme?

14,30 - 15,00
Lilia Gurova (Bulgaria)
Sparse and Dense Categories: What They Tell Us About The Natural Kinds


15,00 - 15,30
Aneta Karageorgieva, Dimitar Ivanov (Bulgaria)
On the Nature of Mechanisms of Ontological Thinking in Philosophy and Science

15,30 - 16,00
Coffee break

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSION
Moderator: Liliana Albertazzi (Italy)

16,00 - 16,30
Olena Dobrovolska (Ukraine)
The Interaction of Philosophical and Computer Science Ontology

16,30 - 17,00
Rosen Lutskanov (Bulgaria)
What is Mathematics About? A Quinean Case for Structuralism

17,00 - 17,30
Vladimir Stoychev (Bulgaria)
Ontology of Science

17,30
Closing the conference