Workshop: Worldviews and religiosity
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query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p> </p>\n<h1> </h1>\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\"><u>Workshop</u></h1>\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\"><b>Worldviews and <span>religiosity</span>: </b><b>a non-theististic perspective on human experience, meaning and purpose\n<p> </p></b></h2>\n<div>In this age of change, uncertainty, and confusion, many people experience the need for a coherent worldview that would give direction and meaning to their life, and that would help them to feel part of a larger whole. Such feelings are sometimes described as "spirituality" or "religiosity", and are often used as a justification for a return to the traditional religions, such as Christianity, Islam or Hinduism. On the other hand, the philosopher Leo Apostel has eloquently pleaded for the development of an "atheist religiosity". We too would like to separate the experience of religiosity from the a-priori belief in a personal God(s), and investigate in the most fundamental way how an integrated worldview could give meaning to people\'s lives.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<p>This workshop is intended to bring together a number of scholars who have worked on this issue from different perspectives, and to foster a constructive discussion.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<h2> Workshop Organization</h2>\n<p> </p>\n<p> <strong>Date:</strong> Friday, Dec 2, 2011</p>\n<p> <strong>Time</strong><strong>:</strong> 9.30-18.30h </p>\n<p> <strong>Place:</strong> <a href=\"http://www.vub.ac.be/english/infoabout/campuses/index.html\">VUB Campus Etterbeek</a>, Room 3B217 (building B, 3rd floor, end of corridor) </p>\n<p> <strong>Organizers</strong>: Francis Heylighen, Clément Vidal & David A. Weinbaum (Weaver), <a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/\">Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group</a>, VUB</p>\n<p><strong> Participation</strong>: Free, but to facilitate the organization, please <strong>register</strong> by sending your full name & affiliations (if any) to <a href=\"mailto:ecco.seminar@gmail.com?subject=My%20participation%20in%20the%20Workshop%3A%20Worldviews%20and%20Religiosity\">Weaver</a>. Registered people will receive an email with additional information (such as abstracts and references of the talks) as soon as it is available. Due to space limitations, we cannot guarantee non-registered participants a place to sit. Coffee and tea are freely available, but lunch is on your own responsibility.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<h2>Program</h2>\n<p> </p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" border=\"1\" width=\"712\" style=\"width:712.0pt;mso-cellspacing:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm\" class=\"MsoNormalTable\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Time</strong></span></td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Speaker</strong></span></td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Subject</strong></span></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">09.30-10.00</p>\n</td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Francis Heylighen</a> & <a href=\"http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Clement Vidal</a> (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB)</span></td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Introduction: Worldviews and Meaning</span></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">10.00-10.50</p>\n</td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http://vub.academia.edu/WimVanMoer\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Wim Van Moer</a> (Dep. of Philosophy, VUB)</span> </td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/158\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \"> Religious atheism - a framework and a case study</a></span></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">10.50-11.10</p>\n</td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\">-- Coffee Break --</span> </td>\n<td> </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">11.10-12.00</p>\n</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://upers.kuleuven.be/en/titel/9789061869863\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 34); \">Jan Van der Veken</a> (Prof. Em. in Metaphysics and Theology, KULeuven)</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/161\">From atheistic to non-theistic religiosity</a></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">12.00-12.50</p>\n</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">David R. Weinbaum (Weaver)</a> (ECCO, VUB)</td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; \"><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/156\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">God is dead, where do we go from here? </a></p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; \"><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/156\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Nietzsche and a post human perspective on spirituality</a></p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">12.50-13.15</p>\n</td>\n<td> General Discussion </td>\n<td> </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">13.15-14.20</p>\n</td>\n<td>-- Lunch Break at the VUB Student restaurant -- </td>\n<td> </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">14.20-15.10 </p>\n</td>\n<td>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"> </span><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Balagangadhara\">S.N. Balagangadhara</a> (aka Balu) (Center for Comparative Science of Cultures, University of Ghent)</p>\n</td>\n<td><span style=\"-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; \" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Who needs a World View?</span> (Cancelled)</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">15.10-16.00</p>\n</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://www.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/chercheurs/0/CH12720.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Anja Van Rompaey</a> (Center for the Study of Religions and Secularity, ULB) </td>\n<td><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/160\">From exemplarism to representationalism: the difficulty of creating an atheistic concept of truth </a></td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">16.00-16.20</p>\n</td>\n<td> -- Coffee Break -- </td>\n<td> </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">16.20-17.10</p>\n</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Francis Heylighen</a> (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB) </td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/157\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Animism, Evolution, and the Meaning of Life: </a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/157\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">how God helped to alienate us from our true nature</a> </p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">17.10-18.00</p>\n</td>\n<td><a href=\"http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com/\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Clement Vidal</a> (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB) </td>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/155\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Cosmological Immortality: </a></p>\n<p><a href=\"http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/155\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 34); \">Evolutionary Developmental Ethics on a Universal Scale</a> </p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">18.00-18.30</p>\n</td>\n<td> General Discussion </td>\n<td> </td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p> </p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.1pt 0cm;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Final announcements with an abstract and additional information will be distributed by email before the workshop.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em;\">Please contact <a href=\"mailto:ecco.seminar@gmail.com?subject=Presenting%20in%20ECCO%207th%20seminar%20series%202010-2011\">Weaver </a>with any question/request. </p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em;\">The seminar room has an in-built computer projector and screen, so you can easily show PowerPoint or other presentations from your laptop (<strong>Do not forget the power cord of your computer!</strong>). If you don\'t bring a laptop with you, send us your file, and we\'ll save it on another laptop and bring it to the seminar room. You can also use transparencies with the overhead projector, or simply write notes on the blackboard.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em;\">You should prepare enough material for a <strong>30 min</strong> talk, not more. With questions and discussions during and after the talk, this should result in a total talk duration of about 50 minutes.</p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em;\">After the workshop we would appreciate getting the outline or text of your presentation (PowerPoint, pdf, text or other format) to make available for downloading on this page. Even better would be if, taking into account the reactions you got at the seminar, you would elaborate your notes into a full paper, for our workshop archive. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p> </p>\n', created = 1635081922, expire = 1635168322, headers = '', serialized = 0 WHERE cid = '2:f7fa366f927a6919aebe29ad9d3cb4f0' in /home2/secrecco/www/includes/cache.inc on line 109.
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Workshop
Worldviews and religiosity: a non-theististic perspective on human experience, meaning and purpose
In this age of change, uncertainty, and confusion, many people experience the need for a coherent worldview that would give direction and meaning to their life, and that would help them to feel part of a larger whole. Such feelings are sometimes described as "spirituality" or "religiosity", and are often used as a justification for a return to the traditional religions, such as Christianity, Islam or Hinduism. On the other hand, the philosopher Leo Apostel has eloquently pleaded for the development of an "atheist religiosity". We too would like to separate the experience of religiosity from the a-priori belief in a personal God(s), and investigate in the most fundamental way how an integrated worldview could give meaning to people's lives.
This workshop is intended to bring together a number of scholars who have worked on this issue from different perspectives, and to foster a constructive discussion.
Workshop Organization
Date: Friday, Dec 2, 2011
Time: 9.30-18.30h
Place: VUB Campus Etterbeek, Room 3B217 (building B, 3rd floor, end of corridor)
Organizers: Francis Heylighen, Clément Vidal & David A. Weinbaum (Weaver), Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group, VUB
Participation: Free, but to facilitate the organization, please register by sending your full name & affiliations (if any) to Weaver. Registered people will receive an email with additional information (such as abstracts and references of the talks) as soon as it is available. Due to space limitations, we cannot guarantee non-registered participants a place to sit. Coffee and tea are freely available, but lunch is on your own responsibility.
Program
| Time |
Speaker |
Subject |
|
09.30-10.00
|
Francis Heylighen & Clement Vidal (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB) |
Introduction: Worldviews and Meaning |
|
10.00-10.50
|
Wim Van Moer (Dep. of Philosophy, VUB) |
Religious atheism - a framework and a case study |
|
10.50-11.10
|
-- Coffee Break -- |
|
|
11.10-12.00
|
Jan Van der Veken (Prof. Em. in Metaphysics and Theology, KULeuven) |
From atheistic to non-theistic religiosity |
|
12.00-12.50
|
David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO, VUB) |
God is dead, where do we go from here?
Nietzsche and a post human perspective on spirituality
|
|
12.50-13.15
|
General Discussion |
|
|
13.15-14.20
|
-- Lunch Break at the VUB Student restaurant -- |
|
|
14.20-15.10
|
S.N. Balagangadhara (aka Balu) (Center for Comparative Science of Cultures, University of Ghent)
|
Who needs a World View? (Cancelled) |
|
15.10-16.00
|
Anja Van Rompaey (Center for the Study of Religions and Secularity, ULB) |
From exemplarism to representationalism: the difficulty of creating an atheistic concept of truth |
|
16.00-16.20
|
-- Coffee Break -- |
|
|
16.20-17.10
|
Francis Heylighen (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB) |
Animism, Evolution, and the Meaning of Life:
how God helped to alienate us from our true nature
|
|
17.10-18.00
|
Clement Vidal (ECCO & Center Leo Apostel, VUB) |
Cosmological Immortality:
Evolutionary Developmental Ethics on a Universal Scale
|
|
18.00-18.30
|
General Discussion |
|
Final announcements with an abstract and additional information will be distributed by email before the workshop.
Please contact Weaver with any question/request.
The seminar room has an in-built computer projector and screen, so you can easily show PowerPoint or other presentations from your laptop (Do not forget the power cord of your computer!). If you don't bring a laptop with you, send us your file, and we'll save it on another laptop and bring it to the seminar room. You can also use transparencies with the overhead projector, or simply write notes on the blackboard.
You should prepare enough material for a 30 min talk, not more. With questions and discussions during and after the talk, this should result in a total talk duration of about 50 minutes.
After the workshop we would appreciate getting the outline or text of your presentation (PowerPoint, pdf, text or other format) to make available for downloading on this page. Even better would be if, taking into account the reactions you got at the seminar, you would elaborate your notes into a full paper, for our workshop archive.
|
