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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