Dear listmembers, it is with pleasure that I announce the following conference to be held in Rome (Università Roma Tre) this April.

Sincerely,

Charles Wolfe (for the organizers)

 

Mechanism, Life and Mind

in the ‘modern’ era

 

Università Roma Tre

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

Via Ostiense 234, Rome

Sala del Consiglio del DSU

 

Conference organized by

Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre), Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre), and Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)

 

 

Day 1, 15 April 2019

  

08.50-09.00 Introduction and welcome

9.00-9.45: Guido Giglioni (Macerata)

Scaliger Bacon Harvey: A Trajectory in the Early Modern History of Vegetative Life

 

9.45-10.30: Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt)

Instrumental Causes and the Natural Origin of Souls in Antonio Ponce Santacruz’s Theory of Animal Generation

 

10.30-11.15: Boris Demarest (Heidelberg)

Soul, Archeus and Nature in van Helmont’s Medical Naturalism

 

11.15-11.35: coffee break

 

11.35-12.20: Oana Matei (Arad)

A chemical natural history of vegetable bodies in the seventeenth century

  

12.20-13.05: Riccardo Chiaradonna (Roma Tre)

Plotinus and Ficino in Ralph Cudworth’s philosophy of nature

 

 

13.05-15.00: Lunch

 

15.00-15.45: Delphine Bellis (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier)

Animal Life and the Human Mind in Gassendi’s Philosophy

 

15.45-16.30: Barnaby Hutchins (Klagenfurt)

Mechanism as a non-exhaustive ontology: Descartes and irreducibles

 

16.30-17.15: Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Bloomington Indiana)

Early Modern Mechanisms and the mechanical Philosophy

 

17.15-17.35: coffee break

 

17.35-18.20: Raphaële Andrault  (ENS Lyon)

Another kind of mechanism. The continuous chain of sensations in anatomical experiments (1660-1690)

 

  

Day 2, 16 April 2019

9.00-9.45: Luca Tonetti (Sapienza, Rome)

Irritating drugs and affected solids: The notion of “stimulus” in Baglivi’s pathology

 

9.45-10.30:  Cécilia Bognon-Küss (Paris-Diderot)

Intussusception, vital mechanisms and the ontology of life

  

10.30-11.15:  Justin Smith (Paris-Diderot)

 Mechanism, Life, and Perception in Leibniz

 

11.15-11.35: coffee break

 

11.35-12.20: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Venice)

The Life of the Soul: Christian Wolff on the Mind-Body Analogy

 

12.20-13.05: Liesbet De Kock (VUB Brussels)

Mechanism and Teleology in Psychological Explanation: On Causes, Motives and the Methodological Versatility of Wilhelm Wundt’s Scientific Psychology

 

13.05-15.00: Lunch

 

15.00-15.45: Gabriel Finkelstein (Denver)

The Intellectual Origins of the Ignorabimus

  

15.45-16.30: Charles Wolfe (Ghent University)

Vitalism and the metaphysics of life:

methodological reflections with particular reference to the case of Montpellier vitalism

  

16.30-17.15: Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre)

Mechanism and "organisation of the mind" from Kant to Helmholtz (1796-

 

17.20-18.00 General Discussion