PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Wednesday, Sept.18		Arrival of the participants
Thursday, Sept.19 *	10h00-13h00 15h00-19h00	Symposium : “Rationality”
Friday, Sept. 20 *	10h00-13h00 15h00-19h00
Saturday, Sept. 21	10h00-13h00 15h00-19h00
Sunday, Sept. 22	9h00-13h00 14h30-17h00	General Assembly
* The Board of the Icphs will meet either on Thu 19 or on Fri 20 in the evening.

 

SCIENTIFIC AGENDA

The agenda of the conference includes :

A keynote lecture

Six plenary papers

5 symposia ( consisting if needed of several simultaneous workshops) Symposium 1 What do we mean by rationality ? Symposium 2 Rationality and the disciplines     Rationality and irrationality in the "hard" sciences     Rationality and irrationality in the "soft" sciences     The undiscipline of disciplines Symposium 3 Rationality and cultures     Rationality and witchcraft-beliefs     Rationality and language     Rationality and religions     Doing science in non-European languages (practical worekshop) Symposium 4 Rationality and social practice     In politics : rationality and irrationality in the ruling of people     In economy : rationality and irrationality in the management of things     In relating to others and to oneself : who is "mad" ? And who is "rational" ? Special symposium Forum of African learned societies     Traditional knowledge and modern science     Assessment and perspectives of research in Africa

A concluding roundtable Rationality now

 

 

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PHILOSOPHY AND HUMANISTIC STUDIES

AFRICAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
UNESCO - PATHWAYS INTO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

26th
General Assembly

Porto Novo, Benin
September 18-22, 2002

THE ENCOUNTER OF "RATIONALITIES"