We are pleased to announce the 2nd Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy Life and Living Beings in Early Modern Philosophy that will take place on May, 5th-6th 2015, in Bruxelles. The seminar is organized by Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Below you can find the programme.
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Sponsor(s):
- FNRS
Keynote speakers:
- Delphine Bellis (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Mogens Laerke (CNRS – ENS Lyon)
- Justin Smith (Université de Paris 7 Diderot)
- Charles Wolfe (University of Ghent)
Organisers:
- Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Topic areas:
- 17th/18th Century Philosophy
- History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous
Details:
Tuesday, 5 May (Morning session: Bibliothèque du CIERL – 17, av. F. D. Roosevelt – 1050 Bruxelles)
9:50-10:00 Arnaud Pelletier (ULB): Introduction
Session I: THE MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE
10:00-11:00 Mogens Laerke (Lyon): The Life of God: On Spinoza, Metaphysical Thoughts, part II, chap. 6
11:00-12:00 Justin Smith (Paris): Race, genus, Geschlecht: Leibniz sur les séries de générations
Session II : ORGANISMS / INDIVIDUALS
14:00-14:50 Anna Maria Dieli (Rome): The modernity of Leibniz’s conception of biological individuality
14:50-15:40 Ina Goy (Tübingen): Kant’s views on preformation and epigenesis
16:10-17:00 Adam Ferner (Bordeaux): Organic Individuality and Personal Identity in 17th Century Anglophone Philosophy
17:00-17:50 Bertrand Nouailles (Clermont-Ferrand): Qu’est-ce qu’un monstre d’organe? La conception diderotienne de l’organisme
Wednesday, 6 May
Session III: VITALISMS
9:10-10:00 Henny Blomme (Bruxelles): Cudworth’s concept of ‘plastic nature’ and his philosophy of the living being
10:00-11:00 Charles Wolfe (Gand): Du débat Leibniz-Stahl au concept d’économie animale, 1708-1765
11:10-12:00 Paolo Pecere(Cassino): Kant’s second thoughts on vitalism and the limits of physiology
Session IV: MATTER / LIFE
14:00-14:50 Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma): Life and Living Bodies in Descartes’ “Sciences of Life”. Generation, Individuality and Vital Functions
14:50-15:40 Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus): Is the Body Just a Machine? Minute Matter and Living Beings in the Natural Philosophy of René Descartes
16:10-17:10 Delphine Bellis (Nimègue) : Matière, activité et inertie chez Gassendi
17:10-18:00 Patricia Palermini (Liège): Forme et vie chez Spinoza : une réinterprétation du conatus
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