RYAN MCKAY, Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a workshop in FBK’s Aula Piccola on the sacred and the profane in language and law.

In this talk, I will critically analyze the relationship between embodiment and the digital self in three theoretical steps: 1) I will briefly provide the historical philosophical context of the emergence of the problem; 2) I will question the dualistic argument by providing a three-step counter-argument; finally 3) I will focus on the third step by delving into the relationship between extension and incorporation in the digital sphere.

In her talk, Pasqualin will discuss anthropomorphism both as a target of criticism and as an object of recent re-evaluation in the fields of animal ethics and ethology. Focusing on Heidegger’s understanding of anthropomorphism, she will stress the ambivalence of anthropomorphism as a resilient way of thinking.