January 24 to 27, 2002 at Lake Spitzingsee, Germany

Organizers: Ernst Pöppel, Britta Glatzeder

• Wolfgang Fikentscher, philosphy and informatics of law, University of Munich;
• Gereon Fink, neurology, Research Center Jülich, Clinic of Neurology, Aachen;
• Britta Glatzeder, philosophy, Human Science Center, University of Munich;
• Rüdiger Ilg, neurology, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich;
• Bernd-Olaf Küppers,  biology, Philosophy, University of Jena;
• Godehardt Link, logic and philosophy of science, University of Munich;
• Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center;
• Ernst Pöppel, neuroscience, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich; Parmenides Center;
• Manfred Spitzer, neurology, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Ulm.

• Laokoon, Kantianism, and the human brain (Wolfgang Fikentscher)
• Imaging techniques and the possibility of visualizing thinking processes (Gereon Fink)
• Case study - an example of visualizing mental processes: Representing intuitive and rational decision processes with fMRI ((Rüdiger Ilg)
• Heart or brain? The organ of thinking - an ambivalent history (Georg Kreutzberg)
• Information and the origin of life (Bernd-Olaf Küppers)
• Logic and mathematical thinking (Godehardt Link)
• The project of a taxonomy of thinking (Ernst Pöppel)
• Neural networks (Manfred Spitzer)