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• 28 avr 2015

  29 avr 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Psyche

  The Brains that pull the Triggers

  Paris Conference on Syndrome E

  The transformation of groups of previously nonviolent individuals into repetitive killers of defenseless members of society has been a recurring phenomenon throughout history. This apparent transition of large numbers of so called “psychologically intact”, “ordinary” individuals, to perpetrators of extreme atrocities is one of the most striking variants of human behavior, but often appear incomprehensible to victims and bystanders and in retrospect even to the perpetrators themselves and to society in general. This transition is characterized by a set of symptoms and signs for which a common syndrome has been proposed, Syndrome E (Fried, Lancet, 1997). The purpose of such designation is not to medicalize this form of human behavior, but to provide a framework for future discussion and multidisciplinary discourse and for potential insights that might lead to early detection and prevention. The Brains that Pull the Triggers, a special conference under the auspices of the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, will bring together scientists and scholars from the human, social and brain sciences along with guests from literature, politics, and law to bear upon this tragic invariant of the human condition.

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• 13 nov 2014

  15 jan 2015

  Paris

  Seminar - Science studies

  Thinking through diagrams in the sciences

  Movements, spaces, temp and matter

  Les diagrammes sont un élément constitutif de la pensée mathématique et physique, et également du travail de création artistique. Quelques développements récents, parmi les plus intéressants et profonds, des sciences contemporaines, que ce soit en topologie, en géométrie, dans la théorie des systèmes dynamiques, dans les théories quantiques des champs ou encore dans la théorie des cordes, ont été possibles grâce à l’introduction de nouveaux types de diagrammes, qui, en plus d’avoir une fonction essentielle pour la découverte de nouvelles classes d’espaces et de phénomènes, contribuent à enrichir et à clarifier la signification des opérations, des objets et des concepts qui sont au cœur de ces espaces et phénomènes.

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