La technologie et le paradigme émergent de l'humain
Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity

The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

May 29 – 30, 2005

Symposium / Colloque 

a symposium sponsored by Canadian Jacques Maritain Association
un colloque international co-parainé par l'association canadienne Jacques Maritain
in association with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 
en collaboration avec le Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines
and with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
grâce à une subvention du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

May 29, 2005

Genetics, the Internet and the Normative Concept of the Self

9:00 – 9:40:    Dr. Greg Walters, Faculty of Theology, St. Paul University
            The Philosophy of Gene-Being: An Ethical and Metaphysical Critique

9:40 – 10:20:    Dr. Archana Barua, Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology
            Designing Humans

10:20 – 10:30:  Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:10:     Dr. William Sweet, Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University
            Technology, Religion and Human Destiny

The Interface of Technology and Society

1:00 – 1:40:    Dr. Lorenzo Magnani, Professor, Department of Philosophy & Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia
            Moral Mediators in a Technological World

1:40 – 2:20:    Sébastien Mussi, Doctorant, chargé de cours, Université du Québec à Montréal
            Technoscience et environnement: l’île de Pâques revisitée

2:20 – 2:30:  Coffee Break

2:30 – 3:10:    Dr. Aubin Deckeyser, Faculté de philosophie, Université Saint-Paul
            Foucault, la technologie et l’homme

3:10 – 4:00:    Shannon Foskett, Centre for Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario,
            Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Naïve Transhumanism

May 30, 2005

Historical Views on Technonology, Education and the Self

9:00 – 9:40:    Dr. Walter J. Schultz
            Persona Grata: Integral Personalism, Democracy, and Maritain's Subjugation of Technique in Education

9:40 – 10:20:     Dr. Louis Perron, Faculté de philosophie, Université Saint-Paul
            L’historicité de la technologie comme historicité eschatologique

10:20 – 10:30:  Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:10:      Dr. Thom Heyd, Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria
             Nature, Culture, and Natural Heritage

Genetics, Bodies and Souls

1:00 – 1:40:    Dr. Boniface Kaboré, Département de sciences politiques, Université d’Ottawa
            Vie privée, identité et vol d’identité

1:40 – 2:20:    Dr. David Lea, Department of Philosophy, American University of Sharjah,            
            Intellectual Property, the IT Industry and Free market freedoms in the Global Arena

2:20 – 2:30:  Coffee Break

2:30 – 3:10:    Dr. Carol Collier, Department of Philosophy, Laurentian University
            Technology and the Body: A New or an Old Anthropology?

3:10 – 4:00:    Greg McMullen, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
            Technology and the Extension of Life