Association canadienne
Jacques Maritain
Canadian Jacques Maritain
Association
Symposium annuel/Annual Symposium
Vendredi le 2 novembre/Friday November 2 and Samedi le 3 novembre/Saturday November 3, 2001
Theme
Maritain
and the limits of science / Maritain et les limites de la science
Saint Paul University, 236 Main
St., Ottawa
and
Dominican College of Philosophy
& Theology, 96 Empress
Ottawa, Ontario
(Click here for a map of the conference site)
Vendredi le 3 novembre /Friday
November 3
Saint Paul University / Université
Saint-Paul, 236 rue Main St., Ottawa
Room/salle # 104
12.00 p.m. - Lunchtime executive meeting
2.00 p.m. - Elizabeth Trott, Ryerson Polytechnic
University, "Order, Chaos, and the Role of Reason"
3.00 p.m. - Charles LePage, Saint Paul
University, "Arendt’s critique of scientific progress and Maritainian metaphysics"
4.00 p.m. - Richard Feist, University of
Ottawa, "Whitehead and the Limits of Science"
7.30 p.m. / 19h30 AMPHITHEATRE (Room 1124)
Maritain Association inaugural lecture
Welcome and Introduction - William Sweet, President, CJMA / ACJA
Fine Tuning and Divine
Design
John Leslie, FRSC
Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
Author of Universes (Routledge),
The
End of the World (Routledge),
Modern Cosmology and Philosophy (Prometheus),
Infinite
Minds (Oxford)
[co-sponsored by the Faculty of Philosophy, Saint
Paul University]
Reception to follow: Elisabeth-Bruyère Atrium
Samedi le 4 novembre/Saturday
November 4
Collège Dominicain (96
rue Empress, Ottawa) / Dominican College (96 Empress St., Ottawa)
9.00 a.m. - Lawrence Dewan, OP, Dominican
College, "Maritain and Special Relativity"
10:00 a.m. - John Goyette, Sacred Heart Major
Seminary / Detroit, Michigan, "Organic Unity and Scientific Reductionism"
11:00 a.m. - Ralph Nelson, University of Windsor,
"Our Knowledge of the Organism"
12.00 p.m. Lunch / repas du midi
1:00 p.m. - Leslie Armour, Dominican College,
"Science and our Reading of the World"
2:00 p.m. - Mathew Anderson, "Maritain’s
Critique of the Science of Psychoanalysis: Liberating the Freudian
Unconscious"
3:00 p.m. - Walter James Schultz, "Sanctity and
the Scientist"
4:00 p.m. Business Meeting
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Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez communiquer à
For more information, please contact:
Professor William Sweet,
Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5;
fax 902-867-3243; tel 902-867-2341; Internet: wsweet@stfx.ca