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This workshop (in English, although in Paris) may be of interest to to listmembers.
 
Best regards
 
Charles Wolfe

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From: cécilia bognon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2011/12/28
Subject: [Theuth] Workshop "Life sciences and philosophy in the late 18th century : epigenesis, form and organization", IHPST, 13 et 14 janvier
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Bonjour à tous, 

Désolée pour le doublon. Voici le programme (correct) du workshop "

Life sciences and philosophy in the late 18th century : epigenesis, form and organization

 " organisé à l'Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques par Ina Goy (Tübingen) et Philippe Huneman (IHPST). 


Vendredi 13 et samedi 14 janvier 2012

à l'IHPST (salle de conférence, 2e étage), 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris

 

Life sciences and philosophy in the late 18th century : epigenesis, form and organization.

Organized by Ina Goy (Tübingen) and Philippe Huneman (IHPST – Paris 1 Sorbonne)

 

January 13-14 2012

 

Friday, January 13

14h-15h. Julius Alves (Tübingen) : 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  (Tübingen) : Kant's notion of formative power.

11h-12h. Stéphane Schmitt (Paris) :  Lacépède and the problem of species.

12h15-13h15 François Duchesneau (Montréal) : La Métherie on the principles of vital organization.

13.15-14h Lunch.

14h-15h Thierry Hoquet (Université Paris Ouest) : Buffon and empiricism 

15h-16h Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Paris, IHPST). Nutrition and generation in the Enlightenment

16h15-17h15 François Pépin (Paris): Chemistry and epigenesis in Diderot and Venel

16h15-17h30 Philippe Huneman (Paris, IHPST) : Concluding remarks.

 
Location : IHPST, 13 rue du Four, 75006 Paris
Tel. 0033 1 43 54 60 36.  2nd floor

Cécilia Bognon-Küss
Doctorante en Philosophie, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 
Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST)
13, rue du Four
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Charles T. Wolfe

Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences

Centre for History of Science, University of Ghent

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