The Two Cultures: Shared Problems

Section 1. Time, Infinity, Cosmology

1. Did Time Have a Beginning? A Meeting Point for Science and Philosophy
Gabriele Veneziano

2. The Flowand the Map: On the Dynamic and Static Views of Time
J. J. A. Mooij

3. The Evolution of the Universe
Ruth Durrer

4. And the Eternal Zeno Springs to Mind
Piergiorgio Odifreddi

5. Creating the Physical World ex nihilo? On the Quantum Vacuum and Its Fluctuations
Luciano Boi

6. Worldly Nihilism and Theological Nihilism — A Possible Definition
Eugenio Mazzarella

7. General Discussion on the Themes of the First Section

Section 2. Intelligence and Emotions

8. Original Knowledge and the Two Cultures
Giorgio Vallortigara

9. The Many Faces of Intelligence
Elkhonon Goldberg, Dmitri Bougakov

10. Cycles of Re-Creation — A Psychoanalytical Approach to Music
Joerg Rasche

Section 3. Beauty and Creativity

11. Symmetry: A Bridge Between the Two Cultures
Marcus Sautoy

12. The Dynamics of Beauty
Giuseppe O. Longo

13. Scientific and Artistic Creativity: In Search of Unifying Analogies
Ernesto Carafoli

14. The Artworld and the World of Works of Art
Maurizio Ferraris

15. Architecture Between Science and Art
Mario Botta

16. The Mirror: An Optical Prosthesis that Multiplies the Reflective Abilities of the Mind
Michelangelo Pistoletto

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, Neurobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Languages and Literature