
World Conference on Metaphysics
Rome, Italy | Nov 3-6, 2025

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

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
Tuesday
04
09.00-16.30
Opening session
Plenary session I
Round tables
Presentation rooms
Auditorium
Wednesday
05
09.00-16.30
Opening session
Plenary session I
Round tables
Presentation rooms
Auditorium
Thursday
06
09.00-14.00
Plenary session
Parallel roundtables
Conference closing
Final concert
Auditorium
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
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
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
Include
Fernando Rielo, 1923-2004: thinker, humanist, poet
- Life and testimonies
- Poetry, metaphysics, mysticism, and anthropology.
- Education, psychoethics, syneidotherapy and methodology
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.
Early rate
180€
until 28/04/2025
Standard rate
195€
until 31/08/25
Late rate
210€
as of 09/01/2025
Student rate
150€
A document certifying the declared qualification is required.
until 20/10/2025
Daily rate
80€
until 20/10/2025
Why and what for
An international forum for dialogue, established in 2000,
dedicated to exploring and debating the fundamental questions
of experimental and experiential sciences.
