The Whole Breadth of Reason:
Rethinking Economics and Politics
Venice
Giorgio Cini Foundation
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
14th - 17th September 2011
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 14TH SEPT 2011 AFTERNOON
14.45
REGISTRATION
15.15
GREETINGS OF THE AUTHORITIES
Mons. Brian Edwin Ferme - Rector of Studium Generale Marcianum
Prof. Alberto Peratoner – Director of ASSET
I SESSION – THE WHOLE BREADTH OF REASON
Chair: Simona Beretta - Professor of International Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
His E. Card. A. Scola – Archbishop of Milano
The Good Reasons for a Broader Reason
VIDEO MESSAGE
Alva Noë - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Why You Are Not Your Brain!
18.00
Guided tour of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
19.30
Social Dinner at Fondazione Cini
THURSDAY 15TH SEPT 2011 MORNING
II SESSION – ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS: REASONABLE STORIES OF HOW WE GOT INTO IT AND
HOW WE MAY MOVE FORWARD
9.30
Chair : Mario A. Maggioni - Professor of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
David Schmeidler – Professor of Economics, The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and Tel Aviv University
Rationality in Face of Uncertainty
David Storey - Professor of Enterprise, University of Sussex, Brighton
Entrepreneurship: the Roles of Optimism and Chance
11.30
Coffee Break
11.45
Edward Hadas - Economic Journalist, Financial Times and Reuters Breakingviews
Economic Rationality and the Role of Economic Information
13.00
End of Session - Lunch
I AFTERNOON PANEL
15.00
Chair: Guido Merzoni - Professor of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Facilitator: Simona Beretta - Professor of International Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milano
Corrado Pasquali - Assistant Professor, Università degli Studi di Teramo
and Luigi Marengo - Professor of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa
A Theory of Power as Choice Building
Matteo Amori - Post-doc Researcher, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Human Agency Between Reality and Function. Remarks on Reason in Action
Roberto Burlando - Associate Professor of Economic Policy, Università di Torino
and Giuseppe Mastromatteo - Professor of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
From the Current Crisis to Renewed Approaches to Freedom and Common Good
FRIDAY 16TH SEPT 2011 MORNING
III SESSION –IS “REALPOLITIK” TRULY REASONABLE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD?
9.30
Chair : Michela Sterpini – ASSET Studium Generale Marcianum, Venezia
Antoine Messarra - Member of the Lebanese Constitutional Council and coordinator of the Master in IslamicChristian relations at the Saint-Joseph University, Beirut
The Effectiveness of Socio-Economic Policies. Problematic Compared Experiences and Prospects of Action
Adrian Pabst - Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent
Values at Test: Implementing Subsidiarity. The “Big Society” as a Political Experiment
11.30
Coffee Break
11.45
Mathias Nebel – Maitre de Conférence à l’Institut Catholique de Paris
Politics, Structures of Power and Human Freedom
13.00
End of Session - Lunch
II AFTERNOON PANEL
15.00
Chair: Michela Sterpini –ASSET Studium Generale Marcianum, Venezia
Facilitator: Mario A. Maggioni - Professor of Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Paolo Monti - Lecturer in Philosophy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Beyond Disagreement. On Pragmatist Accounts about the Relationship Between Reason and Democracy
Federico Trombetta - Master Student, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Behind Trust. How Alternative Explanations of Trust Shape Our Vision of Human Beings and Communities
Wolfgang Grassl - Professor of Business, St. Norbert College, De Pere
Pluris Valere: towards Trinitarian Rationality in Social Life
SATURDAY 17TH SEPT 2011
FINAL SESSION
THE WHOLE BREADTH OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REASON:
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT? WHICH PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS?
9.30
Chair : Simona Beretta - Professor of International Economics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Continuation of floor discussion, towards an interdisciplinary synthesis
10.45 Coffee Break
- Conclusioni
During the days of September 15th and 16th some selected posters will be on display so that every participant
will have the opportunity to talk with the presenter.
Here is the list of the selected posters:
Filippo Drago - Fellow Researcher, Centro Studi e Ricerche Toqueville-Acton
Reason and Religion. Re-think Economy and Development With the Social Doctrine Church Categories
Alessandra Gerolin - Post-doc Researcher, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Eric Voegelin’s Project of a Staastlehre in Race and State: for A Wider Understanding of “Political” Reason
Samuel Kimbriel - Pembroke College, Cambridge University
Friendship, Affinity and Political Deliberation: Lessons from Aristotele and the Gospel of John
Baudoin Roger - Professor of Social Morality, Collège des Bernardins, Paris
The Individual, Overcoming an Anthtopological Fallacy
Luca Sandonà - Assistant Teaching, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
From “Homo Economicus” to “Homo Socio-Economicus in Action”. An Epistemological Re-thinking in the
Conception of Economic Agent
INFO
Dott.ssa Elena Galavotti
ASSET- Alta Scuola Società Economia Teologia
Dorsoduro 1 30123 Venezia
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t: 041 2743 911
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