Piergiorgio Odiferddi

Eternity breaks through Zeno
Beginnning with the Eleatics, the concept of Infinity has moved from philosophy to literature without losing its intellectual attraction. The talk will discuss some steps of the humanistic and scientific history of this fascinating concept, from Zeno's paradox to the stories of Kafka and Borges.

L’eternità si interrompe attraverso Zeno
Partendo con gli eleatici, il concetto dell’infinito si é mosso dalla filosofia alla letteratura senza perdere la sua attrazione intellettuale. La discussione tratterà alcuni passi della storia umanistica e scientifica di questo affascinante concetto, dal paradosso di Zeno alle storie di Kafka e Borges.


ABSTRACTS
 
 
Luciano Boi
Creating the physical world ex nihilo?
On the quantum vacuum and its fluctuations

Mario Botta
Architecture between art and science
Ernesto Carafoli
Scientific and artistic creativity.
Towards a unifying concept
Ruth Durrer
The evolution of the universe
Marcus du Sautoy
Symmetry
Maurizio Ferraris
Things and artworks
Elkhonon Goldberg
Many faces of intelligence
Giuseppe O. Longo
The dynamics of beauty
Eugenio Mazzarella
World nihilism and theological nihilism:
a possible definition
Arthur Miller
Art and science:
two cultures or two sides of same coin?

Hans Mooij
The flow and the map:
on the dynamic and static views of time
Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Eternity breaks through Zeno
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Mirror: an optical prosthesis that multiplies
the reflective capacities of the mind

Joerg Rasche
Cycles of re-creation:
psychoanalytical approach to music
Giorgio Vallortigara
Intelligence and human cognition:
mental processing in humble brains
Gabriele Veneziano
Did time have a beginning?
A meeting point for science and philosophy

 



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