Event Description
Radboud University Nijmegen will host a hybrid conference on “The Mechanical Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Early-Modern Period.”
Thursday 23 June
Carla Rita Palmerino (Radboud University) – Opening
Antonio Clericuzio (Roma Tre University) – Thomas Willis’ Corpuscular Iatrochemistry
Carmen Schmechel (Free University Berlin) – Temporis Mora: The Role of Delay in Mechanist Philosophies of Physiological Change
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – Medical Thaumatology: A Mechanistic Account of Miracles
Babette Chabout-Combaz (Paris Diderot University/University of Montréal) – Fossils and Cognitio Historica in Early Modern Germany
Omar Hraoui (University of Milan/Radboud University) – Duplices Naturae Leges: Dynamics and Organism in Leibniz’s Thought
Boris Demarest (Heidelberg University) – The Mechanization of Vegetative Powers
Sarah Carvallo (University of Franche-Comté) – The Vegetative Power: From a Vegetal Faculty (Facultas Vegetalis) to a Natural Force (Vis Naturae)
Friady 24 June
Federico Silvestri (University of Milan) – The Structure of the Living in Hobbes’ Mechanical Philosophy
Charles Wolfe (University of Toulouse Jean Jaures) – Varieties of Vital Materialism Revisited
Paolo Pecere (Roma Tre University), Mechanism and Living Forces: Alexander von Humboldt Between Kantianism and Naturphilosophie
Thursday 23 and Friday 24 June 2022, 9:00–13:00 CEST
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