Forms of vitalism in 2013
Room 219
Blandijnberg 2
Gent
Belgium
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Graduate student vitalism workshop convened by Charles Wolfe, Ghent University
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Thursday, June 20
13:00 Charles Wolfe (Ghent): Introduction: why vitalism now?
13:30 Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent): The fire without light, or why Descartes has no principle of life
14:30 Marij van Strien (Ghent) : The challenge of physics to free will and vitalism, 1860-1880
15:30 Olivier Sartenaer (Louvain-La-Neuve): The Tangled Relationship between Vitalism and Emergentism: The Case of Emergent Evolutionism
16:30 Victor Marques (PUCRS, Brazil): The machine metaphor, dialectics of nature and the spectre of vitalism
19:30 dinner at Multatuli, Huidevetterskaai 40, Ghent
Friday, June 21
10:00 Andy Wong (Liège): Life as Constraint and as Challenge: Bergson, Canguilhem and the Perplexity of Vitalism
11:00 Anne Lefebvre (UTC, Compiègne) : Life and Information: Simondon as a reader of Canguilhem and Goldstein
12:00 Gertrudis Van de Vijver (Ghent): Concluding remarks
For any further information contact Charles Wolfe: [email protected] or +32471653821
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