Agenda – Day 1

9:00 Welcome
Michael Lissack, Director, ISCE
Kurt Richardson, Associate Director (Research), ISCE

9:15 Complexity and Philosophy - Summary of the Main Ideas at the 1st Havana Complexity Seminar, January 7th-11th, 2002
Pedro Sotolongo, Instituto de Filosofía, La Habana

10:45 Break

11:00 Tutorial Session: Entropy and Information in Physics and Complex Systems
Lev Levitin, College of Engineering, Boston University

12:30 Buffet Lunch

1:30 The Construction of Emergent Order, or, How to Resist the Temptation of Hylozoism
Jeffrey Goldstein, Adelphi University

2:30 Complex System Identity: The Challenge of Resilience
Alicia Juarrero, Department of Philosophy, Prince George's Community College

3:30 Break

3:45 Against Reductionism: Complexity Science, Complexity Art, and Complexity Studies
Philip Galanter, New York University

4:45 Principal Component Analysis and Paradigms
Phil Goetz, Department of Computer Science, Intelligent Automation, Inc.

7:00 BBQ

Day 2

9:00 "The Causal-Chaos Continuum": A Thought Experiment Contending that Social Science Research Should be Subject to a 'Chaos' Rather Than a 'Classical' Research Paradigm
Alan D. Zimm, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

10:00 The Problematisation of Existence: Towards a Philosophy of Complexity (PDF paper)
Kurt A Richardson, Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence

11:00 Break

11:15 Goethe's Science: An Approach to Research in American Indian Studies
Nicholas C. Peroff, University of Missouri

12:15 Buffet Lunch

1:15 The Complex Dilemma of Living in Two Worlds
Ken Baskin

2:15 Complexity, Methodology and Models: In Search of New Economics Foundations
Rodrigo Zeidan, Institute of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

3:15 Break

3:30 From Linearity to Complexity: Towards a New Economics
Juan Valderas, Dpto. Economia Aplicada I, Universidad de Sevilla

4:30 Optimal Ethics
Phil Goetz, Intelligent Automation, Inc.

5:30 Workshop close

Workshop participants