On the Ashes of Post-Modernism: A New Realism?

The international conference "On the Ashes of Post-Modernism: A New Realism?" was held at Italian Cultural Institute on November 7, 2011. An eight-hour long philosophical marathon featuring some of the best known Italian and American thinkers in the field, the conference was part of the Framework Program “Slowness and Quality” promoted by La Fondazione NYC and sponsored by Alitalia. A very intense and fruitful occasion to debate the state of the art in philosophical studies and approaches towards reality, in times when reality itself is increasingly complicated and hard to categorize systematically. Participants included: Umberto Eco, Hillary Putnam, Maurizio Ferraris, Paul Boghossian, Giovanna Borradori, Akeel Bilgrami, and Ned Block.