VIII International Scientific Conference “Man as Integrity: Philosophy, Science and the Art of Healing”

On October 30, 2025, the VIII International Scientific Conference “Man as Integrity: Philosophy, Science and the Art of Healing” was held (in a remote format). The organizers were: the Department of Philosophy, Bioethics and Foreign Languages ​​of Odessa National Medical University, the International Academy of Psychosynergetics and Alphalogy, the NGO “National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine”, the Departments of Philosophy and General Psychology and Psychological Counseling of Odesa National University named after I. I. Mechnikov, the Department of Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Law of the Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. The conference is registered by the State Scientific Institution “Ukrainian Institute of Scientific and Technical Expertise and Information” of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (certificate No. 694 dated October 10, 2025).

The aim of the event was to involve the scientific community in a transdisciplinary discussion on the problems of human existence, stimulate and support science in Ukraine, and develop international cooperation.

The conference was attended by 86 researchers from five countries: Ukraine, Spain, Germany, Moldova, and France.

A number of theoretical and practical issues of biological, personal, and sociocultural human existence were considered within the framework of modern socio-humanitarian and natural science discourses at sectional meetings in the following areas:

Medical anthropology: socio-humanitarian models of medicine.

Philosophy of medicine: normal and pathological in human existence.

Philosophy of health: metaphysical and ethical aspects.

Current problems of bioethics and nooetics.

The temporal aspect of human healing.

Science and religion in the search for ways to heal humanity.
Personal resources for human healing in conditions of martial law and uncertainty of the future.
Philosophy and psychology of transprofessionalism: the potential for self-healing of an educated person.
Linguistic and pedagogical explorations in the context of socio-cultural healing of a person.
Philosophical and legal ways of improving human existence and activity.
“Healing from ignorance” in conditions of anthropological crisis.
As part of the conference, a round table meeting “Conceptualization as a philosophical and methodological basis for research in science” was held.

According to the results of the 8th International Scientific Conference “Man as Integrity: Philosophy, Science and the Art of Healing”, each participant will receive a certificate, a program and a collection of conference materials, the release of which is expected in January 2026 (all in electronic PDF format).