Interdisciplinary Documentation Center for Science and Faith

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 The Interdisciplinary Documentation Center of Science and Faith (DISF) is an interdisciplinary center for research and formation

In 2002, foundation of the DISF was laid with the publication of the Dictionary of Interdisciplinary Documentation of Science and Faith. At the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, after about 15 years in the making, the Center for Research and Formation, the portals disf.org and inters.org, and the Higher International School for Interdisciplinary Research (SISRI) were founded.

The main purpose of the DISF Research Center’s studies and initiatives is to increase the philosophical-humanistic formation of those working in the field of scientific research—young graduates, researchers, and scholars, who wish to enrich their studies or professional experience with a broader interdisciplinary framework—keeping in mind the philosophical foundations of the different disciplines, as well as the Christian Revelation.

Generally speaking, the research center's initiatives are intended to bring to fruition a more developed fusion of faith and reason in all those engaged in intellectual work and research. The center’s work is directed at scholars who have different philosophical or religious perspectives, as long as they are interested in the role the Judeo-Christian tradition of thought plays in the formation of Western culture.

The DISF Research Center is financially supported by the Italian Bishops' Conference (fondi 8xmille alla Chiesa cattolica)

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Our websites​: disf.org -  Inters.org in English - Sisri.it

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The DISF Research Center, in collaboration with the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross’ School of Theology, organized the conference "Secularity and science: what scientists in Italy really think about religion," by Dr. Brandon Vaidyanathan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology The Catholic University of America.

Prof. Giuseppe Tanzella Nitti and Prof. Claudio Tagliapietra took part in the meeting.

 

 

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On Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022 (4:30 p.m. in the Álvaro del Portillo Hall) Prof. Giovanni BUCCINO, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele-Milano, gave a conference entitled At the Frontiers between Neuroscience and Philosophy: from Embodiment to Abstract Concepts.

Activity co-organized by the School of Philosophy and the DISF Research Center.
Also speaking will be: prof. Francisco FERNÁNDEZ LABASTIDA (Faculty of Philosophy) and prof. Giuseppe TANZELLA-NITTI (DISF Center).
Prof. Ivan COLAGÈ, DISF Research Center and Faculty of Philosophy, will moderate.

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English Course "Lectures on Science and Theology", from February 16 to May 25, 2022, organized by the Interdisciplinary Center for Religion and Science (disf.org - inters.org).

The course intends:

a) to examine those contemporary scientific results and perspectives that seem to challenge our religious and theological worldview

b) to show the significance of the discourse on God in scientific culture.

The faith in God the creator of heaven and earth and the Christian proclamation of the Incarnation of the Word are assessed against the background of our knowledge of the physical cosmos, and of the evolutionary history of life and humankind on earth.

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