The workshop brings together scholars discussing issues of organic \;generation and development around the end of the eighteenth century.
Topics include: Kant's philosophy of biology\, Montpellier vitalism and \;teleomechanism\, Kielmeyer's philosophy and science of life\, Lacé\;pè\;de and the \;problem of species\, La Mé\;therie on the principles of vital organization\, \;Buffon and empiricism.
Friday\, January 13
14h-15h. Julius Alves (Tü\;bingen) : Kant on biology as a threat to the unity of empirical science.
15h-16h. Charles Wolfe (Ghent): Teleomechanism redux? from functional physiology to the animal economy in early modern natural philosophy
16h15-17h15. Andrea Gambarotto (Bologna-Paris IHPST ) : «\; The big machine of the organic world. »\; Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer between philosophy of nature and science of life.
17h15-17h30. Discussion.
Saturday\, January 14
10h-11h. Ina Goy (Tü\;bingen) : Kant's notion of formative power.
11h-12h. Sté\;phane Schmitt (Paris) : Lacé\;pè\;de and the problem of species.
12h15-13h15 Franç\;ois Duchesneau (Montré\;al) : La Mé\;therie on the principles of vital organization.
13.15-14h Lunch.
14h-15h Thierry Hoquet (Université\; Paris Ouest) : Buffon and empiricism \;
15h-16h Cé\;cilia Bognon-Kü\;ss (Paris\, IHPST). Nutrition and generation in the Enlightenment
16h15-17h15 Franç\;ois Pé\;pin (Paris): Chemistry and epigenesis in Diderot and Venel
16h15-17h30 Philippe Huneman (Paris\, IHPST) : Concluding remarks.
Contact: Philippe Huneman (Paris\, IHPST) \;huneman@wanadoo.fr\, Ina Goy \;(Tü\;bingen) \;ina.goy@uni-tuebingen.de.