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SUMMARY:Mechanicῶs/Mechanicè. Reconsidering the Origin of Mechanical Philosophy
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Venue: online Zoom meeting</p>\n<p>Zoom link: https://unive.zoom.us/j/84571640858?pwd=MWFJbFgxRjlnaVJLWUpIOWJwQlZVUT09</p>\n<p>Zoom meeting ID: 845 7164 0858\; Passcode: gMi180</p>\n<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p>The paper intends to reconstruct the genesis of mechanical philosophy &ndash\; both as an expression\, and as a concept &ndash\; starting from a hitherto neglected occurrence of the term &ldquo\;mechanical&rdquo\; to qualify a philosopher&rsquo\;s doctrine: in this case\, Aristotle&rsquo\;s. The expression &ndash\; to be read in Vopiscus Fortunatus Plemp&rsquo\;s Ophthalmographia (1632) &ndash\; dates to five years before the previously-known occurrence of the term in Descartes&rsquo\;s correspondence with Libert Froidmont concerning the just-published Discours de la m&eacute\;thode (which was Plemp himself to mediate). The paper analyses how &ldquo\;mechanical&rdquo\; shifted in meaning from Plemp&rsquo\;s tract to Descartes&rsquo\; letters of 1637 and\, hence\, in Descartes&rsquo\; following writings. It investigates Descartes&rsquo\; later statement that &ldquo\;physics is nothing but mechanics&rdquo\; in relation to Descartes&rsquo\; theory of the laws of nature and to his concurrent identification of natural philosophy with geometry. The paper further explores the aftermath of Descartes&rsquo\; theory by considering the third\, revised edition of Plemp&rsquo\;s Ophthalmographia. In 1659\, while retaining the largely neutral mechanicῶs of the original 1632 edition\, Plemp did indeed strongly criticize Descartes &ndash\; whom he styled as a neo-atomist &ndash\; precisely for his pretence to account for all natural phenomena manifeste ac mechanice. The paper concludes by comparing Descartes&rsquo\; views on physics as mechanics with the project for a &ldquo\;mechanical philosophy&rdquo\; launched by Boyle in the 1660s in name of a radically different epistemology and metaphysics.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Andrea Strazzoni;CN=Marco Sgarbi:
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