Material for Einstein meets Magritte Proceedings

A short presentation of the Einstein meets Magritte material

The following papers are likely to be included respectively in the 8 volumes of the Proceedings of the "Einstein meets Magritte" conference, be published by Kluwer and VUB University Press.

1. The Book 'Einstein meets Magritte'

. In this book each 'invited speaker' is now invited to write one chapter:

0. Editorial Introduction: Somewhere over the Rainbow
1. Diederik Aerts: Einstein Meets Magritte: The Scholar, the Muse and the Barfly
2. John Ziman: Basically, It's Purely Academic
3. Bas C. van Fraassen: The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image
4. Barbara Hernnstein-Smith: Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science Studies
5. Robert Pirsig: Subjects, Objects, Data and Values
6. Ilya Prigogine: Einstein and Magritte: A Study of Creativity
7. Constantin Piron: Quanta and Relativity: Two Failed Revolutions
8. Rom Harré: The Redundanc of Spacetime: Relativity from Cusa to Einstein
9. Diederik Aerts: The Stuff the World is Made of: Physics and Reality
10. Francisco J. Varela: DaseinÕs Brain: Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science
11. William Calvin: What Creativity in Science and Art Tell us about How the Brain Must Work
12. Adolf Grünbaum: The Hermeneutic Versus the Scientific Conception of Psychoanalysis: An Unsuccessful Effort to Chart a Via Media for the Human Sciences
13. Zygmunt Bauman: Immortality, Biology, Computers
14. W. Brain Arthur: The end of Certainty in Economics

2. The Red Book : Science and Art

The contributed speakers to the red stream are invited to write their contribution:

1. Daniël Lechner: Science, Art and Edification
2. Bert Mosselmans & Ernest Mathijs: Similarity or difference: The Case for Interdisciplinarity in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Art and Aesthetics
3. Peter Hiett: Goethe as the Meeting Place of 'Einstein' and 'Magritte'
4. Tatijane Romanovskaya: André Breton Revisited: Once More about Science and Art
5. Patrick Baert: Knowledge Acquisition in Social Life and Art: The Case of FoucaultÕs History of the Present
6. Enrico Giannetto: Heidegger, The Questions of Physics, Art and Technics
7. Kurt W.Back: Field Theory in Physics, Psychology and Art
8. Donald H.McNeil & R. Ian Flett: What's Wrong with This Picture? Toward a Systemological Philosophy of Science with Practice
9. André Barbé: New Images from the Virtual Gallery of Mathematically Inspired Art
10. Bradley R.Bowers: Einstein meets the Bloomsbury Artists
11. Russell Ford: Intervals and Intimacy: on Magritte's Disclosure of the Space of Experience
12. Edward A. Shanken: Technology and Intuition: A Love Story? Roy Ascott's Telematic Embrace
13. Ross Feller: Musical Anticommunication: The Composition of Complexity and the Complexity of Composition
14. Ana England: An Artist Encounters Science: Dialogue and Personal Translations
15. Steven Finke: Art and the Boundaries of Consciousness
16. Ivo Janousek: The Crossroads and Links between Art and Technology : The Role of Museums
17. Michel Demeuldre: Different Levels of Change in Aesthetical Relation to the World: "Aeasthetic", Tribes, Collective Creativty, Mutual Transformations and Periodicity
18. Arto Siitonen: Chess as a Mirror of Scientific, Artistic,and Philosophical Creativity
19. Fred Halper: Construals: Perceptual Occlusion in the Work of René Magritte
20. David Piggins: The Art and Science of Impossible Figures
21. Barbara Saunders: The Ideology of a Model of Colour
22. Johan Lauwereyns: Knowledge Acquisition in Poetry Criticism: The Expert's Eye Movements as an Information Tool

3. The Orange Book: University and Society - Social and Cultural Studies of the Sciences.

1. G.R.Wegmarshaus: Considering science a cultural phenomenon: a challenge to "Kulturwissenschaften" at Viadrina University
2. Helle Martinson: Society, research organisation and science in newly independent Estonia
3. E.Z.Mirskaya: Big system change and people's mentality: Russian case
4. A.H.Jasinski: Science and technology in transition: the Polish case
5. Steliana Sandu: Convergence of Western and Eastern R-D systems in transition
6. Anca Dachin: Concentration of basic research mainly in universities - a unique pattern for Romania?
7. A.Ambrogi: Science philosophy and society
8. Nina Issakova: Small innovation firma in transition economy
9. T.Larionova: Money incomes of Russian scientists: the survey
10. V.Khoreva: Changes in the social sphere in Russia
11. D. Aerts: Research and education: how we organise for the future
12. H.Castanos-Lomnitz: Mac meets Phllip II: The changing technological discourse in Mexico
13. I.Mikeshin: Science and society: a view from the East in transition
14. Wu Shuyao: Inovating consciousness in research organisation: sponsering subjects actively
15. B.Gal-Or: Beyond contemporary academic teaching
16. T.Petrova: Technical university and humanistic dimension of society
17. V.B.Kolmananovskii: Modern control theory and learning process
18. Ina Dagyte: Science of science in the system of university education
19. Francis P.Crawley: Science, democracy, and the liberal arts: a POSTSCRIPT on the European university's curriculum
20. Douglas S.Daniels: Mea culpa: formal education and the DIS-integrated world
21. Patrick Baert: Critical realism, the social and the natural sciences
22. John Douard: Perspectival unity: an international health policy project
23. J.L.Van Belle: Wallerstein's world-system analysis and Taylor's communitarianism. An attempt to re-establish universal values
24. William E.Herfel: On cognitive and social dimensions of science: constructivism and nonlinear dynamics
25. An Vranckx: Narratives of "evolution", "systems" and "complexity" - Semantic interpretations of realities and representation
26. S.D'Hertefelt: The social practice of studying science (and technology)
27. Sharon Fuller: Control, contempt, contestation, collaboration: the anorexic body and a rescripting of psychiatry
28. A.Gatensby: NO means Nitric Oxide: an interpretive approach to understanding biological research
29. Ben Cullen: Cultural virus theory: a new vision of the nature of artefacts, technology and knowledge
30. C. Vlaicu: Social aspects of science and technology transfer

4. The Yellow Book : Worldviews and the Problem of Synthesis.

1. J.V.Dzhulay: How is it possible to overcome relativism? Some models of answers in transcendental tradition
2. G.Van Vinckenroy: Sciences and humanism in today's world
3. Steven Knight: The answers of humanism to the neoliberal advance
4. Ben-Dov Yoav: Science and the human: complementary as reconciliation
5. T.Koizumi: Synthesizing the four ideals of humanity
6. H.Knyazeva: The synergetic worldview and its synthetic value
7. John Mingers: Synthesising constructivism and critical realism: towards a pluralist philosophy
8. F.Elders: A methodology of worldviews
9. S.Sanatani: Metaphysics and physics
10. Minai Asghar T.: Aesthetics: the encompassing worldview
11. Walter Dejonghe: Kornalijn Blue: A unifying insight exploring the structure of reality, the foundations of creativity, design and product development
12. H.H.von Borzeszkowski : Not even classical mechanics is mechanistic
13. Will McWhinney: Realizing worldviews
14. Jef Barrett: Oracles, aesthetics, and Baysian consensus
15. P.Barbetta: The paradox of the "narrative structure", in search of a metaphoric model
16. V.Kuznetsov: Conditions and features of unity concepts in science
17. Marc Tassoul: Sense in the making, an illustrated talk
18. Frank Dochy: Science and art : analogies and homologies
19. S.Hartmann: The Future of an Illusion: Einstein's Vision Revisited
20. J.L.Elohim: Unperfected but perfectible ways for dealing with the relative unity of my real concerns
21. D. Aerts: The biomousa: a new view of discovery and creation
22. Almira Karabeg: Modeling - a way towards integration
23. Herman L.P.Siebens: United colors of beton
24. Wim Mielants: Can the best of all possible worlds be a randomstructure?
25. T.V.Artemieva: Between physics and metaphysics. Natural philosophy in Russia
26. H.Eijzenga: The echoes of grammar
27. J.Van der Veken: Toward an integrated view on the whole of reality, introducing the worldview project
28. Ivanov Oleg: Comprehensive approach as a basis for integrating scientific knowledge
29. Hugh Clapin: Scientific realism and transcendental idealism: Kant and mental representation
30. I.Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.: Science fiction, cultural theory, and fantastic modeling
31. Rennie Stuart: What is a 'scientific image' anyway?
32. Ph.L.Peterson: Beyond Einstein, Magritte and Quine
33. M.A.Boudourides: Global value of chaos in sciences?
34. L.Ropolyi: The science and the world view of crisis
35. Dino Karabeg: A polyscopic study of basic cultural patterns
36. Dino Karabeg: Towards a polyscopic model of the human
37. F.Goetghebeur: Buddhism as a part of global comprehension of reality
38. J.Deklerck: The cycle of integration and disintegration applied to Western Society
39. Stanislav Mayev: Modern Philosophical ideas as a way to agreement between various ideologies and religions
40. W.Callebaut: Evolutionary panacea?
41. F.Campos: Towards a virtual rationality
42. D. Maetens: Reflections on self-referential theory-design in sociology
43. A.J. Hirst: Lets we forget our inheritence
44. E. Bouratinos: An interdisciplinary science of consciousness: reasons, principles, tasks

5. The Green Book: Life and Death - Man and Nature - A World in Transition.

1. Michat Tempczyk: Creative thinking and brain dynamics
2. J.T.Cullen: What is life?A critique of autopoiesis in the light of non-developmental apoptosis
3. J.Kelemen: Grammatically on life and rationality
4. M.Anderson: Still-life-moving-death
5. Arnold De Loof: Communication: the key to defining "life", "death" and the force driving evolution
6. James Cusumano: Genesis to ???----The role of catalysts in creating our future
7. F.Elders: Life and death are each other's friends
8. Leonce Bekemans: Paradigma shift in economics and society
9. Hans Verstraeten: The media and the transformation of the public sphere
10. M.B.Marques: Confronting health transition complexity
11. D. Aerts: The biomousa: implications for social, economic and political changes
12. Borisz Szanto: Barriers of human evolution
13. Jarva Vuokko: Carelian female studies challenge Western male science
14. F.O'Reilly: Rural development knowledge : indigenous, necessary, appropriate
15. Rui B.Marques: Europe-Japan technological partnership in the pacific century
16. Jan Fenema: And you, my mountain, will you never walk towards me?
17. Dimitri Spivak: Altered states of society : a tentative approach
18. M.Goussakov: An innovational line of post-modern industrial society
19. Bh.Sudipto: Bargaining and knowledge sharing
20. Anatoly A.Chumak: Chernobyl disaster as a problem of synthesis
21. Willy Weyns: Strength and weakness (SWOT) analysis of the potentialities of humankind to overcome the ecological challenge
22. K.M.Kaiser: Hunger strikes: the dramaturgy of biopolitics
23. H.T.R.Mark: The predicament of ecological-economic valuation and the need for linkage through an institutional framework
24. A.I.Pougatcheva: The system of technology transfer in the post-communist countries: reforming or self-organization?
25. N.Repenning: The information super highway: The atom bomb of the 90ies?
26. M.A.Anees: Science--Searching for the soul?
27. Cz.Mesjasz: Stability, turbulence, chaos? Systems analogies and metaphors, and change in contemporary world politics
28. Paul Smith: Essays system regarding global integration
29. Hu Bicheng: New type of moral relation between man and nature
30. C.Filippino: Dialectic nature of heart
31. Zikai Yun: New views of science: the conversation between modern people and nature
32. Peng Fuyang: On philosophical aspects of alienation of science and technology
33. N.Kacergiene: The relation indices of children with acute respiratory diseases to solar activity and meteorological factors
34. R.Vernickaite: The relation of certain homeostatic indices to environmental factors in pregnant women
35. Ph.L.Peterson: Non-natural cultural universals exist
36. J.Rosicka: Scarcity versus fertility. Two discourses of economics
37. M.Braeunig: Science and peace - A Western Buddhist perspective
38. J.Kelemen: On an interplay between life and rationality
39. D. Siefkes: Turing meets Thoreau: an ecological approach to computer science
40. Rob Fenton: Supra-human Institutions and the Human Condition
41. D. Tamas: The birth of the global bio-social system, a self-regulating individuum

6. The Blue Book : Meta Debates.

1. Adam Grobler: Relativities and relativism
2. Dan Nesher: Which side Spinoza would have taken between Einstein and Bohr
3. Lars Lofgren: Meta-linguistic views of quantum mechanics
4. Don Fawkes: Einstein, ethics and action
5. E.Bouratinos: A new conceptual ethos: going beyond the inadequacies of present scientific thinking
6. C.Capel-Boute: Necessity of a new paradigm in experimental research taking into account space and time
7. Jixuan Hu: Eigen-Mechanism: An Explanatory Principle and An Artful Exemplar
8. Burton Voorhees: Reason and formal reason
9. Kotina Svetlana: Aestetic aspect of the Einstein's "cosmological religious sense"
10. Diederick Raven: Knowledge by Being in Touch (On Constructivism, Realism and Manipulative Capabilities)
11. D. Aerts and S. Aerts: Interactive statistics: the application of quantum probability in social sciences
12. I.Antoniou: Probabilistic extension of dynamics of chaotic systems and intrinsic irreversibility
13. M.Suarez: How theories save phenomena. A case against "embedding"
14. S.Langenberg: What about the modernistic concept of consiousness?
15. G.Cornelis: Cosmology and proliferation
16. D.Lambert: The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Biology
17. H.Fisher: The Self and its Relation to the Logical Space of Hypotheses
18. James Wilk: An Introduction to Metamorphology: Mind, Nature and the Emerging Science of Change
19. Dick Hoekzema: Time symmetric quantum cosmology
20. J.Gutierrez: A Journey Through Qualitative Social Analysis and the Object of Social Theory
21. Bob Coecke: Early Greec thought and new perspectives in quantum mechanics: outlines of an approach
22. Marek Bielecki: The 'Two Cultures' or One: the Case of Cognitive Science
23. R.Espejo: Social Accounting: A Grounding of the Informational Domain in the Operational Domain of an Organisation
24. A.G.Butkovskiy: Nature and Human World from Control Point of View
25. Soren Brier: Cyber-Semiotics: a new second order non-mechanistic framework for interdisciplinary science?
26. Maarten Königs: Interface of words and numbers
27. J.Huntington: Totality Theory: The Relativistic Logic of the System Constrained by Itself
28. Chen Wenhua: Statistical analysis of the cycle - fluctuating and transform phenomenon of science, technology and economy
29. L.H.Kauffman: Virtual Logic
30. V.Durov: Liquid Systems Supramolecular Organization: Self-Ensemblies, Molecular Design And Information
31. A.J.C.Wright: A systems model of stress in individuals, groups and societies
32. G.V.Kanigin: The problem of the computer metaphor of the poll
33. Th.Landscheidt: The Golden Section: A principle of Structural Development in Man and the Solar System
34. A.M.De Lange: Computer Assisted Creative Teaching and Learning
35. A.M.Adam: Was Einstein a philosopher? Deduction Vs. Induction, the End of Certitude and Conventionalism
36. O.K.Safonenko: Biomedical application of magnetic fluid as a specific interdisciplinary problem
37. Tom Macnamara: Complex rationality: a new and simple way of comprehending contradiction and paradox?
38. P.J.Lewi: Extraction of latent variables from tabulated data as a paradigm for instrumental knowledge acquisition
39. J.de Gerlache: Magritte meets Einstein: Encouter on the Road to the paradigm of Irreducibility
40. X.de Hemptinne: The source of irreversibility
41. E.Hemmerlin: From quantal to material level
42. Plotinsky Arkady: Landscapes of Sybylline Strangeness: Quantum Measurement Against Classical Physics
43. Z.Oziewicz: Nonlinear dynamics: alternatives for Hamilton's and Lagrange's approaches
44. Erik Engdahl: Dedogmatisation of theories in social sciences & psychology
45. G.Hunter: Soliton-waves vs. the particle paradigm: the elementary nature of the physical world
46. Nair Ranjit: Einstein-Bell locality fails in all interpretations of quantum mechanics
47. Vladimir S. Ratnikov: Nonlinearity, rationality and new ways of the representation of reality
48. M. Peschl: Neural representations and symbols. Epistemological issues and implications for the process of science
49. D.A.B. Dekoven: So called 'mathematical structures' do not exist
50. M. Borneas: Physics and unity
51. M.C. Dupre: Let's try and pair contradictory pairs
52. H. R. Farkas: Tetralectics - an approach to the postmodern logic

7. The Indigo Book: Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Reality.

1. P.Mittelstaedt: Language and Reality in Quantum Physics
2. E.Beltrametti: The lost heaven of determinis
3. Steven Weinstein: Subject and object in quantum mechanics and general relativity
4. Thomas Durt: Three ways to strangeness
5. Nicolas Gisin: Quantum cryptography: how to make use of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for secure communications
6. E.Giannetto: Quantum truth, non-separability and reality
7. D. Aerts and B. Coecke: Hidden measurements: an alternative approach to quantum mechanics
8. I.Antoniou: Extension of the conventional quantum theory and logic for large systems
9. David Foulis: A half century of quantum logic. What have we learned?
10. Stanley Gudder: Sharp and unsharp measurement in quantum mechanics
11. D. Aerts: An attempt to explain the sucess of quantum mechanics
12. V.Belavkin: Quantum causality and nondemolition principle or dynamical solution to the quantum measurement problem
13. J.Pykacz: Non-classical logics, non-classical sets and non-classical physics
14. F.Valckenborgh: Closure structure and the decomposition of state space
15. Bob Coecke: Representation of a spin one and the description of joint systems in quantum mechanics
16. S.Bugajski: Fuzzy probability theory: a place where Einstein meets Magritte?
17. Sven Aerts: Quantum, classical and intermediate: the conditional probability and the epsilon-model
18. R.Greechie: Pictures for quantum logics
19. Stanley Gudder: Refutations and conjectures in effect algebra
20. Laszo Szabo: Does quantum theory save free will?
21. Holger Lyre: Multiple quantization and the concept of information
22. M.L.Dalla Chiara: Quantum logical semantics, historical truhts and interpretations of art
23. A.Dvurecenskij: Tensor products of difference posets
24. S.Pulmannova: Quantum logics and Hilbert space
25. Mirko Navara: New algebraic tools for quantum logics
26. Erik Verriest: Quantum logic in system identification
27. G. A. Nistico: Foundational problems of quantum mechanics

8. The Violet Book: The Evolution of Complexity.

1. F.Heylighen: From the Big Bang to the information society: principles underlying the growth of complexity during evolution
2. D.M.Keirsey: Involution: on the structure and process of existence
3. Charles Henry: Branching: the biological basis of symbol formation
4. A.Mansueto: Dialectic, systems and organization. The philosophical implications of the new science
5. Robert Pallbo: Representations as we know them
6. Cliff Joslyn: Dimensional and cardinal variety in systems
7. B.Edmonds: What is complexity? - The philosophy of complexity per se with application to some examples in evolution
8. B.C.E.Scott: Forgetting in self-organising systems
9. G.Nagarjuna: Invertibility and autopoiesis
10. Dino Karabeg: Polyscopic modelling
11. Robert Glueck : Metacomputation of language hierarchies
12. G.S.Percivall: Application of complexity theories to evolutionary system development
13. R.L.Coren: A Simple Mathematical Theory of Evolution showing that Taxonomic Complexity is a Logistic Variable
14. B.Codenotti: Chaos in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, Similarities and Dissimilarities
15. S.Norvaisas: Is variety inevitable?
16. G.J.Batista: Diversity and Complexity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
17. N.Vandewalle: Physical Models of Biological Evolution
18. Y.Toquenaga: Stepping up Trophic levels with Self-Repairing Genetic Algorithm
19. Anton Markos: The Gaia theory: Role of microorganisms in a planetary information network
20. Bertin Martens: The introduction of complexity: towards a new paradigm in economics
21. Johan Bollen: Algorithms for the evolution and development of knowledge networks that use common semantics
22. Ben Cullen: Cultural virus theory
23. Hans-Cees Speel: Memetics, the way a new worldview can act as an overall-language
24. Karl Diller: The evolution of complexity in the evolution of language: grammaticalization, pidgin
languages, and language acquisition
25. Felix Geyer: The challenge of sociocybernetics
26. Ron Cottam: Humble Unification Theory. Partial Comprehension in a Quasi-Particulate Universe
27. Garcia Andres: Use of Complex adaptive systems in Organizational studies