Cartesianism and beyond. Lectures on Cartesianism and Its Reception, March–June 2022, online

Venue: online Zoom meeting

Zoom link: https://unive.zoom.us/j/84571640858?pwd=MWFJbFgxRjlnaVJLWUpIOWJwQlZVUT09

Zoom meeting ID: 845 7164 0858; Passcode: gMi180

Calendar:

• 7 March 2022, 5 pm (CET), Tad Schmaltz (University of Michigan), “The Pineal Gland in Cartesianism”

• 14 March 2022, 11 am (CET), Deborah Brown & Brian Key (University of Queensland), “Neural Correlates of Consciousness in Descartes and Willis”

• 21 March, 6 pm (CET), Lawrence Nolan (California State University), “Descartes on the Beast-Machine Doctrine”

• 28 March 2022, 5 pm (CET), Justin E. H. Smith (Paris-VII), “Zera Yacub: A 17th-Century Ethiopian Philosopher Who May or May Not Have Existed”

• 4 April 2022, 5 pm (CET), Raffaele Carbone (Università di Napoli Federico II), “Cartesian and Malebranchian Meditations”

• 11 April 2022, 5 pm (CET), Delphine Antoine-Mahut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), “Descartes as a Physician: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Cartesianism?”

• 18 April, 5 pm (CET), Lex Newman (University of Utah), “Descartes on Truth, Knowledge, and the Creation of Eternal Truths”

• 2 May, 5 pm (CET), Guido Giglioni (Università di Macerata), “Between Anatomy and Cosmology: Glisson Interpreter of Descartes”

• 9 May, 5 pm (CET), Andrea Sangiacomo (University of Groningen), “Consciousness and Existence in Descartes and beyond”

• 16 May 2022, 5 pm (CET), Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), “Methodological Aspects and Contents of the Nouvel Index scolastico-cartésien”

• 23 May, 5 pm (CET), Mattia Mantovani (KU Leuven), “Mechanicῶs/Mechanicè. Reconsidering the Origin of Mechanical Philosophy”

• 30 May 2022, 5 pm (CET), Delphine Bellis (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier), “Optics and Empiricism in Gassendi’s Thought”

• 13 June 2022, 5 pm (CET),  Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen), “Can Female Philosophers Be Ingenious? Analyses of the Ability to Philosophize in Huarte, Descartes, and in German Historiography of Philosophy”

• 20 June 2022, 5 pm (CET), Antonella Del Prete (Università della Tuscia), “System, Hypothesis and Experience in Régis’s Physics”

Organizers: Andrea Strazzoni & Marco Sgarbi – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 892794