Si sta’ tenendo a Venezia (terminera’ domani), Il Convegno internazionale “Science and today’s visions of the world”, promosso dall’UNESCO Regional Bureau For Science for Europe, dall’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti e dalla Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn di Napoli.
Tra gli interventi segnalo i seguenti (tutti gli abstracts sono disponibili al seguente indirizzo web):
John Barrow (Cambridge University) Simplicity and complexity
Giorgio Bernardi (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli) An ultra-darwinian view of evolution
Alec Boksenberg (Cambridge University) An observer’s vision of the universe
Antoine Danchin (Institut Pasteur, Paris) Is the computer metaphore relevant to describe living organisms?
Christian de Duve (Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology, Bruxelles) Life between chance and necessity
Graziano Fiorito (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli) A point of view on behavior and its flexibility
Takashi Gojobori (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima) The evolutionary origin of a brain
Ladislav Kovac (Comenius University, Bratislava) Humans transcending biology: Epistemology of artifacts
Pier Luigi Luisi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) From the origin of life on Earth to synthetic biology
Alain Prochiantz (CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) To be and not to be an animal
Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Science, selfishness, and human nature
Douglas Wallace (University of California, Irvine) Ancient origins-modern diseases: the mitochondrial connection
Marvalee Wake (University of California, Berkeley) Integrative Biology: an approach to the analysis of complexity
Emile Zuckerkandl (Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, Palo Alto) Complexity, intelligent design and nature's cunning