Institute for Philosophical Research
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 

HIGHLIGHTS
 
 

INFORMATION SOCIETY,
INTERDISCIPLINARITY,
AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES

Nov. 4, 2000, 10:00

Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 
 
 

PROGRAM:
 
 

Opening address by
Norbert KROÓ, General Secretary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences






10:00 - 10:15: Opening address
10:15 - 10:50: VÁMOS Tibor: "Humanoid Humans and Machinoid Machines"

11:00 - 11:45: HARNAD, Stevan (Southampton): "Restoring the Socratic Dialogue
                        in the Post-Gutenberg Age of Scholarly Skywriting"
11:45 - 12:20: ROSS, Seamus (Glasgow): "The Future of Memory: Digital Preservation
                        and the Future of Scholarship"
12:20 - 12:50: PLÉH Csaba: "Types of Knowledge and the Status of the Humanities:
                      Creating and Maintaining Knowledge"

13:40 - 14:25: COY, Wolfgang (Berlin): "Analog/Digital - Images, texts & numbers
                        as basic media structures"
14:25 - 14:55: PALLÓ Gábor: "Visuality and the Language of Chemistry"

15:05 - 15:35: NYÍRI Kristóf: "Words, Pictures, and the Unity of Knowledge"
15:35 - 16:00: KONDOR Zsuzsanna: "From Fragmentation in Science to Wired Knowledge"

16:10 - 16:45: MEDGYES Péter: "Globalization or hegemony?
                        - The spread of English in Hungary"

17:00 - 17:45: BENEDEK, András: "Models of Cooperative and non-Cooperative
                        Strategies of Learning"