Monday 27 april 2009  - Aula Magna, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

 

14:00 — Opening session

 

Welcome addresses

 

Giulia RODANO

Assessore alla Cultura, Spettacolo e Sport della Regione Lazio

 

Cecilia D'ELIA

Assessore alle Politiche Culturali della Provincia di Roma

 

Academic representatives

 

The “Istituto Italiano di  Antropologia”: activities and perspectives

Giovanni Destro Bisol

 

chairman Stefano PUGLISI ALLEGRA

 

15:00

Bernardino Fantini

From the passions of the soul to emotions: The expression of emotions in animals and man (1872) in its historical and philosophical context

 

15:40 Coffe Break

 

16:00

Antonello La Vergata

Theories of cooperation

 

16:40

Telmo Pievani

The evolution of altruism: a case for multilevel selection and exaptation

 

17:20

Giuseppe Testa

Emotions exposed: the evolutionary gaze between description and normativity

 

18:00— 18:30

DISCUSSION

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY 28 april 2009  - Aula Gini, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

 

· morning

 

chairman Enrico ALLEVA

 

09:00

Elisabetta Visalberghi

From Darwin’s insights on facial expressions to our research on capuchin monkeys

 

09:40

Marco Celentano

Contributions of ethology to some emergent perspectives in anthropological and ethical circe

 

10:10 Coffe Break

 

10:30

Elliot Sober

The ABCs of group selection

 

11:10

Simone Macrì

Far away, so close: the Darwinian donation to comparative psychology

 

11:40

Stefano Canali

Emotion, evolution and neuroethics of addiction

 

12:10—13:00

DISCUSSION

 

· afternoon

 

chairman Bernardino FANTINI

 

14:00

Michael Ruse

Morality and Emotions

 

14:40

Emanuele Coco

The methodological parable of William D. Hamilton and the bad nature of Iago: history, epistemological aspects and critical proposals concerning the maleficence

 

15:10

Klaus Scherer 

The evolutionary origin of multimodal synchronissation in emotional expression

 

15:50  Coffe Break

 

16:20

Alfonso Troisi

Darwinian psychiatry and the evolutionary function of emotions

 

17:00—  18:00

DISCUSSION

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY 29 APRILE 2009 - Aula Gini, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

 

chairman Alberto OLIVERIO

 

09:00

Randolph M. Nesse

How run away social selection shapes human capacities for genuine altruism

 

09:40

Fabio Zampieri,

Emotions between medicine and evolutionary biology: an historical overview on the case of Rage and Anger

 

10:10  Coffe Break

 

10:30

Matteo Borri

Ethics as a cognitive skill: framing its evolutionary dimension

 

11:10

Alexander Rosenberg

Must naturalism be nihilistic?

 

11:50

ROUND TABLE

 

13:00

Final comments and close

 

 

 

 

LECTURERS

 

 

Matteo Borri

Université de Genève, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé

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Stefano Canali

Scuola Internazionale di Studi Superiori Avanzati - SISSA - Trieste

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Marco Celentano

Università di Cassino, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione

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Emanuele Coco

Università di Catania

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Giovanni Destro Bisol

Istituto Italiano di Antropologia

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Bernardino Fantini

Université de Genève, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé

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Antonello La Vergata

Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento Scienze del Linguaggio e della Cultura

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Simone Macrì

Istituto Superiore di Sanità

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Randolph M. Nesse

University of Michigan, Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR

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Telmo Pievani

Università di Milano – Bicocca, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione

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Alexander Rosenberg

Duke University, Department of Philosophy, Center for Philosophy of Biology

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Michael Ruse

Florida State University, Department of Philosophy

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Klaus Scherrer

Université de Genève,  Department of Psychology

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Elliot Sober

Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin

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Giuseppe Testa

IFOM-IEO Campus, Milano

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Alfonso Troisi

Università Tor Vergata

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Elisabetta Visalberghi

C.N.R., Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione

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Fabio Zampieri

Université de Genève, Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé

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