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Dear colleagues Please find below the programme for this year's talks in PHPS at Ghent University, hoping it's of interest and please share (apologies for x-positings) Best Charles Wolfe Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences and Sarton Centre for History of Science Ghent University *Concepts and methods in philosophy and history of science: Calendar, 2014-2015* Contact Charles Wolfe, [log in to unmask] All meetings are, unless otherwise announced, in the seminar room of the Library at Rozier 44, a block away from Blandijnberg ( http://goo.gl/maps/01uKL), Wednesdays 14.00-16.00 Oct 15: Workshop *Machines of Life, Development and Assimilation: Vitalist Themes* Oct 22 Daniel Schneider (Gent):* The Clear and Distinct and the Forceful and Vivid: Making Some Sense of the Once Standard Rationalist-Empiricist Divide.* Nov 12 Andrea Sangiacomo (Groningen) *Spinoza on Teleology: from ontology to moral philosophy* Nov 26 Tamas Demeter (Budapest) *The Flight from Mathematics in the Human Sciences: The Case of 18th-Century Scotland* Dec 3 Anik Waldow (Sydney) *How to study the human being? Kant on natural history and anthropology* Dec 10 Alison Peterman (Rochester) *Spinoza on the common notions* Dec 17 two talks on Bergson and 20C history of philosophy in France: 1, G. Bianco (Sao Carlos): *What is intellectual inheritance? The case of Bergsonism;* 2, A. Wong (Liège): *Life and Technology in Bergson's Creative Evolution* Jan 7 Marlise Rijks (Gent): *Crocodiles, Herbs, and Shells. Apothecaries and the Trade in Collectables in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp* Jan 21 Paola Rumore (Turin): *From theology to philosophy: the immortality of the soul in early German enlightenment* Feb 18 Justin Smith (Paris 7) *Kant and Mill on the 'Logic' of Racial Divisions* Feb 25 Olivier Surel (Paris 10) *Immanent Critique in Spinoza's Theory of Affects* March 11 Laura Felline (Rome) *Counterfactuals in fundamental physics* March 18 Erik Curiel (Munich) *On the Use and Abuse of Scientific Examples in the Philosophy of Science* April 1 Magali Roques (MPIWG) *Nominalism in Arithmetic at The Beginning of the 14th Century. The Case of William of Ockham* April 22 Delphine Bellis (Nijmegen / MPIWG): *Gassendi's probabilism and Academic **skepticism from day to day* April 29 Barbara Sattler (St Andrews): *Aristotle’s notion of measurement* May 13 Liesbet De Kock (VUB) *The concept of the body in early German scientific psychology. Reflections on Wundt's autogenetic theory of action* May 27 Alexander Douglas (KCL) *Affects in Spinoza* *possibly* Anne Sophie Spann (Exeter) on Heidegger on organism June 17 Rina Knoeff (Groningen): *Jerome Gaub (1705-1780), the Management of the Soul and Dutch Eighteenth-Century Culture* -- Charles T. Wolfe Research Fellow, Sarton Centre for History of Science Dept. of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent http://ugent.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe <http://ugent.academia.edu/CharlesWolfe> http://www.sarton.ugent.be/node/13 Editor, Springer series in History, Philosophy & Theory of the Life Sciences, http://www.springer.com/series/8916 *T* +3292643952│*mob (FR)* +33620103586│*mob (BE)* +32471653821│ *F* +3292644187