Thematic Area of the Year:
Foundational aspects of Science, Ontology and Theology

The Main Themes of the (Four) Courses/Lectures and of the (Two) Workshops are the following:

1. Formal Ontology and Formal Logic: the formal ontology as a foundational theory of formal logic, both extensional (the logic of mathematical sciences) and intensional (the logic of human sciences), and as a formal instrument for an effective dialogue between scientific and humanistic disciplines.
2. Epistemology and Logic of Theology: epistemological, logical and ontological foundations of the biblical and theological sciences in the Christian Tradition.
   
   

   Professors and Lecturers:

   Stable Professors (two semester Courses and full time Student Assistance during the two semesters)

   1. GIANFRANCO BASTI, Pontifical Lateran University [philosophy]
   2. PIERO CODA, Pontifical Lateran University [theology]

Visiting Professors (for an Intensive Course (one week), and/or for a Lecture)

1. SERGIO GALVAN, Catholic University of Milan, Italy [logic and philosophy]
2. NINO COCCHIARELLA, Indiana University, USA [formal logic and formal ontology]
3. Card. GEORGES COTTIER, Theologian of the Pontifical House, Vatican Member of the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences
4. JEAN-MICHEL MALDAMÉ, Institute Catholique de Toulouse, France, Member of the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences