Subject: categories: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

From: Alberto Peruzzi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:23:41 +0200

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

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WHOLES AND THEIR PARTS
Castel Maretsch, 17-19 June 1998, Bolzano (Italy)

June 17
9 Registration
10 Bill Lawvere, Categorical analyses of the whole/part relation
11,30 Coffee break
12 John Bell, Whole and part in mathematics
13-15 Lunch
15 Steve Vickers, W/P in semantics for programming languages
16 Coffee break
16,30 Colin McLarty, W/P in foundations of mathematics
17,30 Carlo Cellucci, W/P in logical analysis

June 18
9 Gonzalo Reyes, A category-theoretic approach to Aristotle's term logic,
with special reference to mass nouns
10 Ettore Casari, On Husserl's theory of wholes and parts
11 Coffee break
11,30 John Mayberry, The classical notion of number and the modern notion
of set
12,30-15 Lunch
15 Niles Eldredge, Hierarchical biological systems
16 Coffee break
16,30 Alberto Peruzzi, Wholes and their parts in semantics and epistemology:
local/global and internal/external
17,30 Roberto Poli, Wholes and their parts: the ontological stance

June 19
9 Basil Hiley, W/P in mechanics and cosmology
10 Ron Langacker, Wholes and their parts in natural language
11 Coffee break
11,30 Alf Zimmer, W/P in Gestalt psychology
12,30-15 Lunch
15 Ellis D. Cooper, Wholes and parts in quale mechanics
15,20, Holger Schmid-Schönbein, In resonant physiological systems, the whole
is less complicated than the sum of its parts
15,40 Irina Dobronravova, Parts and elements of the wholes in synergetics
16 Coffee break
16,30 Nili Mandelblit, The notion of dynamic unit: conceptual developments
in cognitive science
16,50 Anthony Atkinson, Wholes and their parts in cognitive psychology
17,10 Lawrence D. Roberts, Sentential meaning and its parts
17,30 Frederik Stjernfeld, Mereology and semiotics
17,50 Ariel Meirav, Plato's Theaetetus and the notion of a Gestalt

Further information and abstracts of (some of) the talks are available at
the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm

Alberto Peruzzi
Dipartimento di Filosofia
Università di Firenze
via Bolognese 52
50139 Firenze
Italia

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