Committee 1: Scientific Objectivity and Human Values
- Badham, Paul, Empiricism and Christian Ethics
- Becker, Carl, The Effects of Human Values on Scientific Objectivity
- Coughlan, Michael, Veritas Splendor, The Case for an Objective Moral Order
- Davies, Christie, Changing Levels of Scientific Control Over Life and Death and Their Impact on Morality and Law
- Golaszewska, Maria, Scientific Knowledge and Human Knowledge
- James, Gene G., Modern Scientific World View and Value Subjectivism
- Liu, Dachun, The Spirit of Science in the Background of Humanism
- Saqeb, Ghulem, The Muslim Quest for the Intergration of Revealed and Acquired Knowledge
- Turfus, Colin, Unificationism and Social Thought, A Complex Systems Perspective
- Vejs, Janis, Fact, Value and the Categorical Imperative
- Yao, Xinzhong, Humanism, Scientism and Human Future, A Comparison of the Philosophy of Learnng in Wang, Yang-Ming and Francis Bacon
- Yaran, Cafer, Scientific Objectivity and Theistic Belief
Committee 2: Genetic Knowledge, Human Values, and Human Responsibility
- Blank, Robert, Public Policy Issues, Genetic Knowledge and Its Use
- Gbadegesin, Segan, Genetic Screening, Sickle Cell Anemia and the African and African-American Perspectives, The Ethics of Screening and Counseling
- Headings, Verle E., The Present State of Genetic Knowledge and Its Implications for Genetic Screening
- Hu, Xinhe, The Chinese Perspective on the Use of Genetic Knowledge
- Kegley, Jacquelyn Ann, Genetic Information and Genetic Essentialism, Will We Betray Science, The Individual and the Community
- Kielstein, Rita, Genetic Knowledge and Human Value, A Clinician’s View
- Kumar, Kusum, Amniocentesis and Gender Discrimination in India
- Phlegar, Theodore and Jacquelyn, Legal Implications of Genetic Screening and Counseling
- Pincheira, Guido, The Human Genome, Facts, Enigmas and Complexities
- Sass, Hans-Martin, Reductionism in Medicine, Genetrification of Concepts of Health and Disease
- Serour, Gamal I., Islamic Perspectives on Genetic Information Use and Genetic Technology
- Shickle, Darren, Treatment of Genetic Disease, Who is the Patient
- Strohman, Richard C., Limitations of LinKage Studies and Multigenic Origins of Disease
Committee 3: Values and the Social Order: Order by Rules and Rules by Order
- Aranson, Peter, Federalism as Collective Action
- Benson, Bruce L., Institutions and the Spontaneous Evolution of Morality
- Block, Walter, Roads, Bridges, Sunlight and Private Property Rights
- Curzon-Price, Victoria, International Commerce as an Instance of Non-Coerced Social Order
- de Jasay, Anthony, The Cart Before the Horse, On Emergent and Constructed Orders, and Their Wherewithal
- DeAlessi, Louis, Value, Efficiency and Rules, The Limits of Economics
- Flew, Antony, State Welfare and Individual De-Moralization
- Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy and the Idea of a Natural Order
- Kasper, Wolfgang, Competitive Federalism for the Era of Globalization
- Lynch, Jr, Alberto Benegas, Towards a Theory of Auto-Government
- Petroni, Angelo M., Values, Preferences and Evolution
- Seldon, Arthur, The Market Inside and Outside the Law, Naturally Imperfect VS. Politically Distorted Markets
- Tullock, Gordon, The Emergence of States
- von Studnitz, Wilfried, Voluntary and Coercive Orders in the Health Care System
Discussion:
- Flew on Bernholz
- Flew on Petroni
- Seldon on von Studnitz
- Versailles on Benegas Lynch
- Versailles on Seldon
Committee 4: Science, Nature, and the Sacred
- Baughman, James A., East-West Perspectives on Methodological Approaches to Science and the Sacred
- Fleming, James, Unity and Interdependence in Science and Religion, Alternatives to Despair and Deconstruction
- Gonzalez-Garza, Ana Maria, The Sacred, Consciousness and Values
- Keepin, Will, Toward a Science of the Heart, David Bohm’s Physics and Beyond
- Kozhamthadam, Job, Kepler and the Sacredness of Natural Science
- Krishna, Padmanabahn, Science and Religion, Two Aspects of a Single Reality
- Lagmay, Alfredo, The Depths of Human Understanding, Science in Search of Meaning
- Murray, Priscilla, She Looks at His Science, Feminist Perspectives on Science, Nature and the Sacred
- Ravindra, Ravi, Science and the Sacred Spivak, Dmitri, Humility as a Scientific Principle
- Sudarshan, George, Witnessing Awareness, Nature of Creativity
Committee 5: Re-visioning the Aging Society: A Global Perspective
- Achenbaum, W. Andrew, Reconstructing the Pathways of Later Life
- Atchley, Robert C., Everyday Mysticism, Spiritual Development in Later Life
- Bergman, William L., Holistic Care and Health Promotion, Implications for Old Age
- Brabazon, Kevin, Intergenerational Relationships, Family Memory and the Public World
- Bronte, Lydia, The Longevity Factor, Implications for Human Potential in the Second Half of Life
- Moody, Harry R., Scenarios for an Aging Society, Choosing Our Future Selves
- Schmidt, Robert M., Life Long Health, Beyond the Medical Model
- ter Meulen, Ruud H.J., Solidarity with the Elderly and the Allocation of Resources
Committee 6: In Pursuit of Beauty: Biological Foundations of Aesthetics
- Argyros, Alexander, Tragedy and Chaos
- Brogger, Jan, Universals in Ritual and Human Nature
- Coe, Kathryn, Visual Art as Ancestral Lectures, Towards a Definition of Art and Theory of Its Social Function
- Cooke, Brett, An Antipode to Beauty, The Misbegotten in Western Narrative
- DePryck, Koen, In Search of Texture
- Dissanayake, Ellen, Antecedents of Musical Meaning in the Mother-Infant Dyad
- Easterlin, Nancy, Do Cognitive Predispositions Predict or Determine Literary Value Judgments, Narrativity, Plot and Aesthetics
- Harris, Lauren Julius and Levy, Jerre, Neuropsychology of Aesthetics
- Turner, Frederick, An Ecopoetics of Beauty and Meaning
- Vatsyayan, Kapila, The Biological Foundations of Aesthetics, An Indian Perspective
Committee 7: Towards the Harmony of Cultures
- Alonso, Marcelo, The Challenge of the Information Society
- Basu, Arabinda, Towards Harmony of Cultures
- Bauer, Henry H., Group Culture and Individual Culture
- Carlson, David, Unification Blessed Marriage, An Educational Paradigm Promotiong a Harmony of Cultures (Or….What About the Kids of the Next Generation)_
- Fritzche, Helmut G., Charismatic-Messianic Capacities to Transcend the Given World of Modernity, The New Cultural-Political Problems in Post-Cold War World
- Higatsberger, Michael J., Nuclear Disarmament Versus Nuclear War
- Lee, Sang-Hwe, On Cultural Prejudice and Cultural Conflict-From the Perspective of Communication
- Pentikainen, Juha, The Encounter of Religions and the Harmony of Cultures
- Schwarz, Hans, The Haunting and Healing Power of History
- Shimmyo, Theordore T., Philosophical Groundwork for the Harmony of Cultures
- Shtromas, Alexander, Universalism, Nationalism and the Prospects for a Harmonious World Order
- Wilson, Andrew, The Unity of Cultures and Absolute Values, A Unificationist Approach
Discussion: