The Italian Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca Filosofica held its first international conference in Palermo from April 10 to 13, 2014. About 100 speakers discussed philosophical problems of understanding matter. The Bertalanffy Center was represented with talks by José María Díaz Nafría, Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Rainer Zimmermann. They took part in a panel on “Primordial Matter, Particles, and Stuff. On the Transition from Physics to Chemistry and Further On” organised by Zimmermann.

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The conference was held in the Orto Botanico of the Università degli Studi di Palermo (photo: Thomas Zimmermann)

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