About life. Theories, Concepts and Images of the Living | 1st FI.NO. Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy

November 10, 2016 - November 11, 2016
Consortium FINO, University of Turin

Aula Principi d'Acaja - Palazzo Rettorato
Via Verdi
Torino
Italy

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Sponsor(s):

  • Fondazione Fondo Ricerca e Talenti - Turin

Speakers:

Renaud Barbaras
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Davide Tarizzo
(unaffiliated)
Charles Wolfe
University of Ghent

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About Life. Theories, Concepts and Images of the Living

1st FI.NO. Graduate Conference in Theoretical Philosophy

University of Turin – Aula Principi d’Acaja (Palazzo Rettorato), Via Verdi 8 Torino

10th - 11th November 2016

[Day 1] 10th November 2016

 

Afternoon (14.00-18.30)

14:00 – Opening Address

 

14:30-15:30

La perte de la vie. Vers une biologie privative

Lectio Magistralis by prof. Renaud Barbaras (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne)

15:30-16:00 – Break

'Just' a Phenomenon? Life and Phenomenological Inquires (16:00-18:30)

16:00 – The Logic of Life in Motor Intentionality | Kenta Sekine

16:30 – Life and Tarrying: A Temporal Figure of Life in Gadamer's Hermeneutics | Valeriya Voskresenskaya

17:00 – Existence and Life. Erwin Straus's Criticism of Heidegger's Daseinsanalytik | Luca De Giovanni

17:30 – General Discussion

19.15 – Dinner

Evening (21:00-23:00)

Cos’è la vita? Biofilosofia, biopolitica, biologia

Lectio Magistralis by prof. Davide Tarizzo (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

[Day 2] 11th November 2016

Morning (9.00-12:30)

What is Life? History, Problems & Concepts (9:00-11:00)

9:15 – The concept of life between zoé and bios | Ilaria Venturini

9:45 – Leibniz and the Polyp, or the Metaphysical Puzzle of Life | Arthur Dony

10:15 – General Discussion

10:45-11:00 – Break

The Complexity of Life between Science and Philosophy. (11:00-12:30)

11:00 – On the Images of Life: a Confrontation between Philosophy and Science through Cassirer and Leroi-Gourhan | Luigi Laino

11:30 – The new synthesis of life in the era of postcomplex life sciences | Massimiliano Simons

12:00 – General Discussion

12:30 – Lunch Break

Afternoon (14:30-18:30)

Vitalism: End or Return? An Historical and Theoretical Path (14:30-17:00)

14:30-15:00 – "The powerful inorganic life that grips the world". Vitalism and ontology in Gilles Deleuze | Giulio Piatti

15:00-15:30 – Synthetic biology or the end of vitalism? | Cécilia Bognon

15:30-16:00 – Genetic tests, DNA spillover, and the return of vitalism | Ivo Silvestro

16:00  – General Discussion

16:30-17:00 – Break

17:00-18:30

The Return of Vitalism. Canguilhem and the Project of Biophilosophy

Lectio Magistralis by Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)

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