Life and living beings in modern philosophy, Brussels, 5-6 May 2015

May 5-6, 2015

2nd Brussels Seminar in Modern Philosophy: "Life and Living Beings in Early Modern Philosophy"

Université libre de Bruxelles
Département de Philosophie
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50

Bruxelles, Belgium

Tuesday, 5 May

9:50-10:00      Arnaud Pelletier (ULB): Introduction
Session I: THE MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE

10:00-11:00     Mogens Laerke (Lyon): The Life of God: On Spinoza, Metaphysical Thoughts, part II, chap. 6
11:00-12:00     Justin Smith (Paris): Race, genus, Geschlecht: Leibniz sur les séries de générations

Session II : ORGANISMS / INDIVIDUALS

14 :00-14 :50   Anna Maria Dieli (Rome): The modernity of Leibniz’s conception of biological individuality
14 :50-15 :40   Ina Goy (Tübingen): Kant’s views on preformation and epigenesis
16 :10-17 :00   Adam Ferner (Bordeaux): Organic Individuality and Personal Identity in 17th Century Anglophone Philosophy
17 :00-17 :50   Bertrand Nouailles (Clermont-Ferrand): Qu’est-ce qu’un monstre d’organe ? La conception diderotienne de l’organisme

Wednesday, 6 May

Session III: VITALISMS

9:10-10:00      Henny Blomme (Bruxelles): Cudworth’s concept of ‘plastic nature’ and his philosophy of the living being
10:00-11:00     Charles Wolfe (Gand): Du débat Leibniz-Stahl au concept d'économie animale, 1708-1765
11:10-12:00     Paolo Pecere (Cassino): Kant's second thoughts on vitalism and the limits of physiology

Session IV: MATTER / LIFE

14:00 -14:50    Fabrizio Baldassarri (Parma): Life and Living Bodies in Descartes’ “Sciences of Life”. Generation, Individuality and Vital Functions
14:50-15:40     Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus): Is the Body Just a Machine? Minute Matter and Living Beings in the Natural Philosophy of René Descartes
16:10-17:10     Delphine Bellis (Nimègue) : Matière, activité et inertie chez Gassendi
17:10-18:00     Patricia Palermini (Liège): Forme et vie chez Spinoza : une réinterprétation du conatus

Website: http://phi.ulb.ac.be/