Did time have a beginning?

a meeting point for science and philosophy

Gabriele Veneziano

3-12

The Flowand the map

on the dynamic and static views of time

J. A. Mooij

13-25

The evolution of the universe

Ruth Durrer

27-38

And the eternal Zeno springs to mind

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

39-50

Creating the physical world ex nihilo?

on the quantum vacuum and its fluctuations

Luciano Boi

51-97

Worldly nihilism and theological nihilism

a possible definition

Eugenio Mazzarella

99-114

General discussion on the themes of the first section

Original knowledge and the two cultures

Giorgio Vallortigara

125-145

The many faces of intelligence

Elkhonon Goldberg, Dmitri Bougakov

147-164

Cycles of re-creation — a psychoanalytical approach to music

Joerg Rasche

165-182

Symmetry

a bridge between the two cultures

Marcus du Sautoy

185-206

The dynamics of beauty

Giuseppe Longo

207-237

Scientific and artistic creativity

in search of unifying analogies

Ernesto Carafoli

239-264

The artworld and the world of works of art

Maurizio Ferraris

265-285

Architecture between science and art

Mario Botta

287-305

The mirror

an optical prosthesis that multiplies the reflective abilities of the mind

Michelangelo Pistoletto

307-320