Object and Person: Transhumanism, Animalism, Metaphysics of the person, and Emergence of the Self

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT :
 “OBJECT AND PERSON:  Transhumanism, Animalism, Metaphysics of the person, and Emergence of the Self”

[Objet et Personne ; Transhumanisme, Animalisme, Métaphysique de la personne, et Emergence du soi”]

16th, 17th and 18th of October 2014
Aix-Marseille University, Aix en Provence (France)

Organization: Jean-Maurice Monnoyer
Coordination: Nil Hours & Bruno Langlet

SEMa is organizing an international symposium on the topic of Object and Person in contribution to the profound and overall renewal of the relatively technical metaphysics sub-field of personal identity, which has in turn grown to include personal ontology.
In speaking of personal ontology, the dividing line between object and person (the question of personhood) is both precise and vast, and for decades, in many ways, the evidence of the person has not been really questioned, remaining a rough concept that deserves more examination.

Speakers:

Richard CROSS (Notre Dame University, Indiana) :
Person and Substance in medieval Philosophy

Howard ROBINSON (Central European University, Budapest) :
Persons and Time

Hud HUDSON (Western Washington University, Seattle) :
The Resurrection and Hypertime

Fréderic NEF (EHESS Paris et Institut Jean Nicod) :
 Is there a metaphysical category or notion of Person  ? From Kant to Chisholm through the christian personalism of Max Scheler ?

Peter VAN INWAGEN, Notre Dame University (Indiana) :
Composite Persons

Dean ZIMMERMAN (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) :
Extended minds and Unextended Persons

Cyrille MICHON (Université de Nantes) :
"I" doesn’t refer to myself

Annalisa COLIVA (Université de Modène & Reggio Emilia) :
How to commit Moore's Paradox

John HAWTHORNE (Magdalen College, Oxford) :
Personal Identity and Vagueness

Isabelle PARIENTE (Aix Marseille Université) :
La personne à l'intersection de la métaphysique et de l'éthique

Francis WOLFF (Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris) :
L'animal rationnel

Nil HOURS (Aix Marseille Université) :
La personne qui compte

Jean-Didier VINCENT (Université de Paris XI, Académie des sciences) :
La singularité entre réalité et illusion

Eric T. OLSON (University of Sheffield) :
Transhumanism for human animals

Maurizio FERRARIS (LABONT, Università di Torino) :
L'animal politique

Timothy CAMPBELL (Rutgers University) :
Conjoined Twinning and Eric Olson's Metaphysics of Persons

Alberto VOLTOLINI (Università degli Studi di Torino) :
The Identity of Fictional Characters

Contact:        aixsema[at]gmail[dot]com
                     brunolanglet[at]hotmail[dot]com

WEBSITE : http://semaihp.blogspot.fr

The symposium shall take place there :  Maison de la Recherche (Salle de colloque du pôle
multimedia), Aix-Marseille Université I, Aix-Marseille Université
29 Avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1

The Symposium is supported by L’Institut d’Histoire de la philosophie (IHP) ; Le Département de Philosophie d’AMU ; Aix Marseille Université ; Rutgers University  ; The International Bilingual School of Provence (IBS of Provence).