BISCA 2000 - Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis

"Dependence and Dynamic Categories"

18-22 September 2000
Maretsch Castle
Bolzano (Italy)

Recent and less recent developments in science require the forging of new
categories as well as the rethinking of traditional ontological and
epistemological categories.
BISCA 2000 shall present a number of cutting-edge new proposals, centered
on the opposition between (1) Upward and downward, (2) being in time and
being time, (3) coupling of processes and unfolding of processes, (4) Kinds
of description.


Speakers

HARALD ATMANSPACHER, Ontic and Epistemic Descriptions in the Sciences

MARK BICKHARD, The Dynamical Birth of Representation

ROBERTO POLI, Upward and Downward Dependence (Levels of Reality)

ROBERT PORT, Timing as Opposed to Being-in-time

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General information:

1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants.
2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs
in Bolzano range
between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full board.
3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion.
4. All lectures will be in English.
5. The lectures will be given at Castel Maretsch, downtown, starting
September 18, at 9 a.m.
6. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet
the costs
of participation.

People wishing to participate should write to Roberto Poli, Department of
Sociology and
Social Research, 26 Verdi st., 38100 Trento, Italy (call: (++39) 461 881
403; fax:
(++39) 461 881 348), or send an e-mail message to: roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it
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BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker
(La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo)
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Information about the past BISCAs (Previouslym(1988 - 1995): Bolzano
International Schools in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence):

http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm