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Announcement and Call for Abstracts
We are pleased to announce that the
1st International Witten Seminar on Philosophy and Medicine
will be organized at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany,
together with the 3rd International Seminar on Biocosmology.
Witten on Saturday, June 30th and Sunday, July 1st, 2012.
Aristotle, Biology, and Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century
four causes, the unity of form and matter, the four functional levels of the human being, as well as organicist cosmology – Biocosmology – as a form of neo- Aristotelism (for details see http://en.biocosmology.ru/), can provide a more profound understanding of nature, the cosmos and the human being than has been made possible by reductionism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contributions from various fields are welcome: philosophy, physics and chemistry, biology, psychology, medicine, and medical anthropology, including theoretical considerations as well as results from empirical studies. At the seminar 30 minute slots will be assigned to each contribution, 20 minutes for presenting and 10 for discussion. The second aim is to lay grounds – with this seminar as a beginning – for the development of a sustainable network for mutual cooperation between scientists working in the fields and interfaces of biology, medicine and philosophy in Germany, Russia, and other countries, with the goal to find new conceptual solutions for the scientific understanding of the human being and its relations to its environment, and to contribute to the mutual understanding between the different cultural approaches to such basic questions internationally.
We kindly invite you to submit abstracts for contributions to this topic until
December 31th, 2011 to [email protected] 2. names, academic titles, departments, institutes/universities, and cities of authors, email address of corresponding author, 3. key words (3-5), 4. abstract text (1 Ѕ spaced, 11 pts.) We need to receive your abstracts until December 31th, at the latest. We will then compose the program which we will publish and disseminate and use to apply for international academic exchange grants. In case of questions do not hesitate to contact us.
Looking forward to receiving your submissions,
Kind regards
Prof. Dr. Peter Heusser, MME,
Center for Integrative Medicine Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University Herdecke, Germany PhD Dr. Konstantin Khroutski Institute of Medical Education Medical Faculty, Novgorod State University after Yaroslav-the-Wise Veliky Novgorod, Russia
PhD Dr. Bernd Rosslenbroich
Institute for Evolutionary Biology Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kettner
Chair for Practical Philosophy Faculty for Philosophy and Liberal Arts, Witten/Herdecke University Witten, Germany |
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