Saturday, February 26, 2011

Program of the International Conference of Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem



  
Agenda
The International Conference of
Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem
March, 9 and 10, 2011
Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy
The Center for Islamic Theology and Philosophy
Opening


Registration and Inauguration Speech
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
8:00-10:00






Seminar 1
Afterlife and the Mind-Body Problem
Place: The Main Hall of the Conference Center of Islamic Propagation Office

Wednesday March, 9, 2011

Topic: Incipience and Eternity of the Soul/The Fall
10:00-10:30
Amir Dastmalchian (Islamic College, London)
Swinburne: the Endowment of Life and the Soul
10:30-11:00
Martin Lembke (Lund University, Sweden)
Out of Eden: Evolution and the Fall
11:00-11:30
Mohammad Miri (IKERI, Qom, Iran)
The Sadraean View of the Incipience and Eternity of the soul
11:30-12:00
Gholamreza Fayyazi (IKERI, Qom, Iran)
The Material Origination of the Soul in Sadra

Wednesday March, 9, 2011

Topic: The Intermediate State and Prior Worlds
15:00-15:30
Ahmad Reza Honari
Perfection and Free Will in Barzakh
15:30-16:00
Daniel Berchie (Valley View University, Ghana)
Intermediate State of the Soul
Break
16:30-17:00
Robert Osei-Bonsu (Valley View University, Ghana)
Purgatory: A Study of the Historical Development
17:00-17:30
Ali Afzali (Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran, Iran)
The Soul and Body in the Pre-Birth Worlds of Zar
                                                                                               
Thursday March 10, 2011

Topic: Immortality and Afterlife
9:00-9:30
Reza Akbari (Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran)
The Implications of Avicenna’s Psychology on his Conception of Immortality
9:30-10:00
Jari Kaukua (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
The Dualist Afterlife: Avicenna and Mulla Sadra
10:00-10:30
Hassan Yousofian (IKERI, Qom, Iran)
Averroes’s Theory of the Unity of the Rational Soul and the Denial of the Immortality
Break
11:00-11:30
Michael Sigrist (George Washington University, USA)
Resurrectionism and the Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity from Early to Reformation-Era Christianity
11:30-12:00
Yasser Khoshnevis (Sharid University, Iran)
Substance Emergentism and the Resurrection
12:00-12:30
Ragab Abdelmonsef (Egypt)
Heavenly Blessings and the Soul-Body Relation
Seminar 2

The Nature of Human Persons in Theology, Philosophy and Scriptures

Place: The Seminar Hall of the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Topic: Mind-Body Theories in Islamic Theology
10:00-10:30
Mohammad Taghi Sobhani (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Soul-Body Theories in Early Muslim Theologians
10:30-11:00
Alinaghi Khodayari (Qom, Iran)
Soul-Body Theories in Middle Islamic Theology
11:00-11:30
Mohammad Biabani (Al al-Bait Institute, Qom, Iran)
Soul-Body Theory in Tafkik School (Mirza Mahdi Esfahani)
11:30-12:00
Ahmad Snobar (Jordan)
Immateriality of the Soul for Some Ash’arite Theologians
12:00-12:30
Idris Samawi Hamid (University of Colorado, USA)
Philosophical Proof for Bodily Resurrection According to Shaykh Ahmad Ahsai
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Topic: Scriptures and the Mind-Body Problem
15:00-15:30
Alireza Alebouyeh (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Immortality and Multi-Aspectuality of Humans in Quran
15:30-16:00
Hassan Mo’allemi (Baqir al-Olum University, Qom, Iran)
The Nature and Characteristics of the Soul in Quran
16:00-16:30
Reza Berenjkar (University of Tehran, Iran)
The Soul in Quran and Hadith
Break
17:00-17:30
Daniel Bediako (Valley View University, Ghana)
Corinthians 5:5 and its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem
17:30-18:00
Shafiq Joradah (Al-Ma'arif al-Hikmiah Center, Lebanon)
The Son of the Mud and the Darkness of the Unknown Self
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Topic: Philosophical Views on the Mind-Body Problem
9:00-9:45
Edward Wierenga (University of Rochester, USA)
Cartesian and Neo-Cartesian Arguments for Dualism
9:45-10:30
Lynne Baker (University of Amherst, Massachusetts, USA)
Persons without Immaterial Souls
Break
11:00-11:30
Abdorasoul Obudiat (IKERI, Qom, Iran)
Problems for the Mind-Body Relation
11:30-12:00
Edmund Runggladier (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Immortality in the Arristotelian Christian tradition
12:00-12:30
Mansour Nasiri (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Allameh Tabatabaei’s View on the Soul-Body Relation
           
Seminar 3
Cognition, Morality and Religious Beliefs and the Mind-Body Problem
Place: 40-Person Hall of the Conference Center of the Islamic Sciences and Propagation Office
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Topic: Cognition and the Mind-Body Problem
10:00-10:30
Samir Abuzaid (Egypt)
The Problem of Consciousness and its Solution in terms of the Separation and Conjunction Method
10:30-11:00
Morteza Erfani (University of Sistan, Zahedan, Iran)
The Immateriality of the Soul and the Perception in Quran
11:00-11:30
Ahmad Va’ezi (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Sadraean View on the Role of the Body in Perception
11:30-12:00
Discussion
Is Cognition (Perception and Intellection) an Immaterial Property?
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Topic: Happiness, Morality and the Mind-Body Problem
15:00-15:30
Yarali Firouzja’ei (Baqir Al-Olum University, Qom, Iran)
Happiness and the Stages of the Soul in Farabi’s View
15:30-16:00
Hadi Sadeqi (Dar al-Hadith, Qom, Iran)
The Soul’s Gender and the Islamic Doctrine of Justice
Break
16:30-17:00
Ebrahim Alipour (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Images of the Corpse in Rumi’s Poetry
17:00-17:30
Sima Dehkordi (Tehran, Iran)
Human Dignity and the Sadraean Soul-Body Theory
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Topic: God, Prophecy, and the Mind-Body Problem
9:00-9:30
Muhammad Legenhausen (IKERI, Qom, Iran)
The Mind of God
9:30-10:00
Alireza Fazeli (Yasouj University, Iran)
The Characteristics of Prophetic Imagination in Aquinas
10:00-10:30
Hamidreza Khademi (Qom University, Iran)
Revelation and Miracles in Avicenna’s Psychology
Break
11:00-11:30
Zahra Poursina (Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
The Influence of Non-doxic on the Doxic Aspects of the Soul in Ghazali’s View
11:30-12:00
S. Mohammad Akbarian (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Human as the Vicar of God and the Nature of the Soul
12:00-12:30
Morteza Yousofi-Rad (ISCA, Qom, Iran)
Imamah on the Basis of the Islamic Peripatetic View of the Soul-Body
                                                                       
Closing Session
Place: The Main Hall of the Conference Center of the Islamic Sciences and Propagation Office

Thursday, March 10, 2011


15:00-15:30
Ahmad Va’ezi (Head of Islamic Sciences and Propagation Office)
A Report of the Conference
15:30-16:00
Mohammad Taghi Sobhani (Scientific Secretariat of the Conference)
A Report of the Seminars
16:00-17:00
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli (Distinguished Muslim Philosopher)

17:00-18:30
Edward Wierenga, Lynne Baker, Sobhani,
Religious Dualism vs. Religious Materialism
                       
                       

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