Life and Living beings in early modern philosophy

May 5, 2015 - May 6, 2015
Department of Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles

50 av. F.D. Roosevelt
Brussels 1050
Belgium

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  • FNRS

Speakers:

Delphine Bellis
Radboud University Nijmegen
Mogens Laerke
CNRS - ENS Lyon
Justin Smith
Université de Paris 7 Diderot
Charles Wolfe
University of Ghent

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Arnaud Pelletier
Université Libre de Bruxelles

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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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