Fifth Annual Aquinas Leadership International World Congress
“Artificial Intelligence and the Futures of Philosophy, Global Leadership, and World Peace”
DATES:
FRIDAY MORNING 20 JULY 2018 to
SUNDAY MORNING 22 JULY 2018
Update: Subsequent posts on each Session will include any abstracts provided by speakers. Links to videos of Sessions will be added when posted at Holy Apostles Seminary and College
LOCATION:
Seminary of the Immaculate Conception
440 West Neck Road
Huntington, Long Island, NY 11743
CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Adler-Aquinas Institute
American Maritain Association
Aquinas Leadership International
Aquinas School of Leadership
Caritas Consulting
Catholic Education Foundation
Center for the Study of Digital Life
Center for The Study of The Great Ideas
Holy Apostles College and Seminary
International Étienne Gilson Society
London Center for Policy Research
Priority Thinking Institute
Studia Gilsoniana, a Journal in Classical Philosophy
2018 Program
Friday 20 July 2018
8:00 am–9:00 am: Breakfast and Registration
Welcome by Congress Chair (Location: Meeting Room):
Peter A. Redpath (Holy Apostles College and Seminary)
9:00 am–10:30 am: Plenary Session Panel 1 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Elisabeth Blum (Loyola University Maryland)
Speaker: Paul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland), “Isaac Asimov on the Paradox of the Human Condition: Robots are Slaves”
Speaker:: Douglas Viviani, Esq. (Host: “Everything Old is New Again” Radio Show)
Speaker: Peter A. Redpath (Aquinas School of Leadership), “The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas
Aquinas as a Midwife to the Birth of a New and Improved Global Civilization of Freedom”
10:30 am–10:45 am: Break
10:45 am–12:30 pm: Plenary Session Panel 2 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Peter A. Redpath (Adler-Aquinas Institute/Center for the Study of The Great Ideas)
Speaker: Jeffrey A. Martineau (Vice President, Center for the Study of Digital Life), “Life and Death in the Digital Paradigm”
Speaker: Mark Stahlman (President, Center for the Study of Digital Life), “Alchemy and the Robots”
Speaker: Peter Berkman (Center for the Study of Digital Life), “Mediaeval Grammar & Digital Fantasy: Metamorphoses in Modes of Being, Understanding, and Signifying”
Speaker: Brian Kemple (Center for the Study of Digital Life), “Mediated Disclosures: Human Persons and Their Technological Environments”
12:30 pm–1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm–3:00 pm: Plenary Session Panel 3 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Paul Richard Blum
Speaker: Robert A. Delfino (St. John’s University, NY), “A Note on Abstraction and the Principle of
Individuation”
Speaker: Richard Fafara (Adler-Aquinas Institute), “Philosophy and Civilization”
Speaker: Denis Scrandis (St. John’s University, NY), “Maritain’s Existential Metaphysics”
3:00 pm–3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm: Plenary Session Panel 4 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Robert A. Delfino (St. John’s University, NY)
Speaker: Timothy O’Donnell (Butler University/Co-host: “The Catholic Cave”), “Identity Zero: Why You Don’t Matter in the Technocracy of the AI Herd”
Speaker: Valentina Peliccia (Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, Rome), “Metaphysics of the Foundation as the Future of Philosophy”
Respondents: Eduardo Bernot (Universidad Abat Oliba, Barcelona) and Rev. A. William McVey (Universidad Abat Oliba, Barcelona)
5:00 pm–6:00 pm: Break
6:00 pm–7:00 pm: Dinner
7:00 pm–8:30 pm: Break
8:30 pm: Cocktail reception (sponsored by the American Maritain Association and the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas)
Saturday 21 July 2018
8:00 am–9:00 am: Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am–10:30 am: Plenary Session Panel 5 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Marvin Pelaez (Adler-Aquinas Institute)
Speaker: J. Joseph Jordan (Holy Apostles College and Seminary), “The Better Angels of Our Nature? -
Walker Percy and C.S. Lewis on the Dangers of Techno-Gnosticism”
Speaker: Peter DeMarco (Priority Thinking Institute), “AI’s Impact on Leadership Communications”
10:30 am–11:00 am: Break
11:00 am–12:30 pm: Plenary Session Panel 6 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Richard Fafara (Adler-Aquinas Institute)
Speaker: Marvin Pelaez (Adler-Aquinas Institute), “A Boethian Renewal in the Wake of Artificial
Intelligence and its Impact on the Labor Economy”
Speaker: Robert Kohn (Fellow, Center for the Study of The Great Ideas; former Visiting Scholar,
Columbia Law School), “Safe Machine Intelligence Through Law”
12:30 pm–1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm–3:00 pm: Plenary Session Panel 7 (Location: Meeting Room)
Chair: Thomas Ciavatti (Cornell University/Xu Research Group)
Speaker: Donna West (SUNY at Cortland), “Eidetic Images as Vicars of the Object: Insights from Maritain and Peirce”
Speaker: James Maroosis, Ph. D., “The Liberal Arts of Management: Reading for Results”
3:00 pm–3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm: Plenary Session Panel 8 (Eric McLuhan Memorial)
Moderator: James Maroosis (Friend and Colleague)
“Remembering Eric McLuhan:
Everlasting Be His Memory, Prayerful Remembrance and Appreciation”
Part 1 (Lower-level, Crypt Chapel): “Six Psalms Vesper Service in Chapel//Sharing Memories and
Anecdotes”
Participants: Assembled Guests
Part 2 (Meeting Room): “Eric in His Own Words, with Commentary and Moderated Dialogue”
Participants: Assembled Guests and Andrew McLuhan (Son of Eric and Grandson of Marshall/
Director of McLuhan Institute)
5:00 pm–6:00 pm: Break
6:00 pm–7:00 pm: Dinner
8:30 pm: Cocktail reception (sponsored by Holy Apostles College and Seminary and Fr. Pawel
Tarasiewicz)
Sunday 20 July 2018
8:00 am–9:00 am: Breakfast
Departure
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