September 12 to 13, 2004 Verona, Italy

Organizers: Britta Glatzeder and Johanna Seibt

In philosophy and the sciences cognition is frequently treated as a phenomenon that can be described using the familiar toolbox of traditional ontological category theory and Galileian science: states, relations, attributes or properties. While we experience cognition as dynamic, as an activity or development, the process nature of the phenomenon commonly is not reflected in theoretical descriptions of cognition, where processes are represented in a reductive fashion - in terms of their results, input-output pairs, or sets of state sequences summarized by linear functions. The purpose of the eleventh Parmenides Workshop was to discuss alternative conceptual tools for theoretical approaches to cognition. We invited some of the main theoreticians in the research area of a process approach to cognition and thinking.

• Liliana Albertazzi, cognitive scientist, University of Trento, Italy
• Harald Atmanspacher, theoretical physics, University of Freiburg i.Br., Germany
• Mark H. Bickhard, psychology, Psychology, Philosophy, Dept. of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, US
• Linda Glassop, information technology, Systems Theory, Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
• Britta Glatzeder, philosophy, Parmneides Center, Munich, Germany
• Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre, informatics, mathematics, University of Leipzig;
• Riccardo Manzotti, robotics, philosophy, University of Genova, Italy
• Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center, Munich, Germany
• Roberto Poli, sociology, philosophy, University of Trento, Italy
• Theresa Shilhab, neurobiology, Philosophy, Danish University of Education, Netherlands
• Johanna Seibt, philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark

• Levels of Reality. The Psychological Stratum (Liliana Albertazzi)
• Acategoriality as Mental Instability (Harald Atmanspacher)
• Fact and Norm — Substance and Process: Healing the Metaphysical Divide (Mark H. Bickhard
• Comparison with Conceptual Requirements of Theories of Other Domains (Linda Glassop)
• Ontology of Processes in General Ontological Language (Barbara Heller, Heinrich Herre)
• Ontogenetic Agents and Consciousness: A Process View (Riccardo Manzotti)
• Chrono-Topoids and Levels of Reality (Roberto Poli)
• Bridging Implicit and Explicit Knowledge - Interaction at the Neural Level (Theresa Shilhab)
• Process Ontology: New Tools for Old Tasks in the Theory of Cognition (Johanna Seibt)
• Process and Cognition (Albrecht von Müller)