World Conference on Metaphysics

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Rome, Italy | Nov 3-6, 2025

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IX Edition 2025

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We welcome you to the World Conference on Metaphysics!

The 9th edition takes place
nov 3-6 2025 in Rome,
in the context of the Jubilee Year.

Science and experience
open to the absolute

Under this motto, the WCM 2025 it gathers scholars and researchers to reflect on the fundamental questions of existence and reality

Learn more about WMC 2025

Jubileo del mundo educativo

Our conference will take place immediately after the Jubilee of the Educational World (31 October – 2 November 2025).

We invite all conference participants to join in the Jubilee celebrations, the pilgrimage to the Holy Door and the scheduled events.

Those who wish to join us as an academic group can inform our secretariat to be included in the collective registration by signing up here.

Joining the Jubilee together

DICASTERY FOR CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Events Jubilee of the World of Education
Schools, universities, ecclesiastical faculties: “the constellation of hope”

Place: St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City
Dates: 27 October – 2 November 2025
We look forward to seeing you there!

More about this event Jubilee 2025 EN

Don’t leave your reflection without foundation. What pillars are necessary for reality not to sink?

Call for abstracts

4 topic areas

4 languages

42 speakers

Tentative Schedule

Monday

03

09.00-16.30

Opening session

Plenary session I

Round tables

Presentation rooms

Auditorium

See program day 3

Tuesday

04

09.00-16.30

Opening session

Plenary session I

Round tables

Presentation rooms

Auditorium

See program day 4

Wednesday

05

09.00-16.30

Opening session

Plenary session I

Round tables

Presentation rooms

Auditorium

See program day 5

Thursday

06

09.00-14.00

Plenary session

Parallel roundtables

Conference closing

Final concert

Auditorium

See program day 6

Topic areas WCM 2025

Positive and negative consequences of scientific and technological progress.

Methodological difference between natural sciences and human sciences
Human intelligence and artificial intelligence Technooptimism: reality or myth?
Technology, personal freedom and self-fulfillment

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Enhance

Metaphysics, mysticism and epistemology in the human sciences.

Mystical character of the human person: consciousness and freedom
Educational model at the service of the family
Transcendence and experience in the art and cultural sciences.
How to deal with the ideological excess of the human sciences

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Dialogue

Person and relation: current horizons and challenges

Towards an integral health: physical, psychological and spiritual
Sacral experience of human living: Society, politics and ideology
Globalization and ecology

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Include

Fernando Rielo, 1923-2004: thinker, humanist, poet

Life and testimonies
Poetry, metaphysics, mysticism, and anthropology.
Education, psychoethics, syneidotherapy and methodology

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Transform

We invite you to contribute your perspective in these areas.

Rates and terms

Take advantage of the early bird rate if you sign up until April 28.