Philosophy Summer Festival: Life, Love & Death

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The Philosophy Summer Festival is back! Life, love, and death: topics explored by philosophers from Plato to Jean-Paul Sartre, take centre stage in an upcoming philosophy festival designed to challenge, unsettle, and inspire. Bringing together a series of dynamic talks, the event invites everyone to engage with ideas that shape not just academic thinking, but the way we understand ourselves and the world around us.

Programme

17:50 Welcome Address by Prof. Claude Mangion

18:00-19:00 First Panel

Prof. Joe Friggieri - Aristotle on Realism

Dr Keith Pisani - What Makes a Life Ours? Reason, Choice, and the Space Between Us

Dr David Vella - The Courage to Remain Exposed: Life, Love, and Death After Surrender

Floor open to the public

19:15-19:30 Break

19:30-20:45 Second Panel

Prof. Jean-Paul de Lucca - Should we Love the World we Live in?

Prof. Maria Pisani - On Being Lovable?

Prof. Mark Sultana - Love as the Trace of the Eternal in the Temporal

Dr Robert Farrugia - Love, Affectivity and the Role of the Heart

Floor open to the public

20:45-21:00 Break

21:00-22:15 Third Panel

Dr Kay Camilleri - Outsourcing Death: How Death Moved Out of Sight
Dr François Zammit - Can Souls be Artificial?
Dr Enrico Schiro - What Really Happens When We Pass from Death to Life?
Prof. Christian Colombo - What Legacy Matters?

Floor open to the public

22:15-23:00 Closing Address by Prof. Claude Mangion

Meet the Speakers