Conference: Quantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind
Conveners: Antonella Corradini (Catholic University of Milan) and Uwe Meixner (University of Augsburg)
Date: June 4 – 6, 2013
Location: Catholic University of Milan

June 4 – Afternoon

• 14:00 – 14:30 Welcome speeches
  Claudio A. Bosio, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology
  Alessandro Antonietti, Chair of the Department of Psychology
  Massimo Marassi, Chair of the Department of Philosophy
  Antonella Corradini: Introduction to the Conference
• 14:30 – 15:45 Henry Stapp, University of California at Berkeley:
  On the Nature of Things: Human Presence in the World of Atoms
• 15:45 – 17:00 Massimo Pauri, University of Parma:
  Physics, Free Will and Temporality in an Open World
• 17:00 – 17: 15 Coffee Break
• 17:15 – 18:30 Ulrich Mohrhoff, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry:
  Quantum Physics, Mind, and Reality

June 5 – Morning and Afternoon

• 9:00 – 10:15 Stuart Hameroff, The University of Arizona:
   Consciousness in the Universe. The “Orch OR” Theory
• 10:15 – 11:30 Antonella Corradini, Catholic University of Milan:
  Quantum Physics and the Fundamentality of the Mental
• 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
• 11:45 – 13:00 Harald Atmanspacher, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg i. Br.: Dual-Aspect Monism à la Wolfgang Pauli and C. G. Jung
• 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
• 14:30 – 15:45 Godehard Brüntrup, Munich School of Philosophy:
  Does Quantum Mechanics Help in Solving the Mind-Body Problem?
• 15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00 – 17:15 Jeff Barrett, University of California at Irvine:
  Why Wigner Thought that Quantum Mechanics Required Mind-Body Dualism

June 6 – Morning and Afternoon

• 9:00 – 10:15 Peter Jedlicka, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt:
  Quantum Stochasticity and Neurodeterminism
• 10:15 – 11:30 Uwe Meixner, University of Augsburg:
  Of Quantum Physics and DOMINDARs
• 11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
• 11:45 – 13:00 Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin:
  Quantum Physics, Action and Free Will: How Might Free Will Be Possible in a Quantum Universe?
• 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
• 14:30 – 15:45 Hans J. Briegel, University of Innsbruck:
  On Agency and Freedom Under the Laws of Nature
• 15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00 – 17.15 Robert Doyle, Harvard University:
  Quantum Physics and the Problem of Mental Causation
• 17:15 – 17:30 Uwe Meixner: Conclusion to the Conference