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UNIV Nigeria 2026

Building Bridges: The act of Dialogue

UnivForum 2026 is an invitation to deepen our reflection on the art of dialogue, understood not merely as an exchange of words, but as an essential path to encountering truth—in service to others and in building authentic human relationships.

Resources & Materials

Aristotle's Revenge by Edward Fesser

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle’s Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but that modern science implicitly presupposes them.

Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel

The modern materialist approach to life is notoriously incapable of explaining central mind-related features of our world, such as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This lack of explanation, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem that threatens to unravel the entire naturalistic picture of the world.

About the Soul by Aristotle

The figure of a giant like Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) is unavoidable in Western thought. The question is not whether the soul exists or not, but “what gender does it belong to and what is the soul.” From here, Aristotle develops, throughout the three books that make up the work, a new and vigorous theory about the soul far removed from previous speculations.

Minds, Brains and Science by John Searle

This is the original article from philosopher John Searle’s “Chinese Room” experiment. Against the notion of the Turing Test, he defends the idea that being able to give perfect answers to questions is not intelligence. Use a graphic example that is easy to understand.