Event Description
The CREMT center at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will host a two-day hybrid conference on “Plants and Philosophy: From Ancient Wisdom to Today’s Science.”
Tuesday 30 May
Andrea Falcon (University of Milan), Do Plants Have Feelings of Pleasure and Pain? The Ancient Debate on the Cognitive Powers of Plants
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University), The Challenge of Plant Generation in Theophrastus’ Botanical Works
Caterina Manco (University of Bologna) Stranger Things: Plants Mutations and Plants Adaptations in Antiquity
Tommaso Alpina (LMU Munich) “None of these things follows the need of nature and the necessity of matter”: Avicenna’s (New) Approach to the Study of Plants
Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University), Vegetable or Mineral? The Double Life of Plants in English Alchemy
Guido Giglioni (University of Macerata), Plants, Giants and the Threat of the Animated Blob: Nature and Anti-Nature in Celio Calcagnini’s Fables
Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Early Modern Ideas for a Phytology or a Philosophy of Plants
Alexandra Cook (University of HongKong), Linnaeus and Plants: Beyond Classification and Nomenclature
Luca Corti (University of Padua), Classical German Philosophy of Plants: Goethe and Hegel on The Structure of Vegetal Lifeform
Stefani Engelstein (Duke University), Symbiosis and Sympoiesis: Pollination and Generativity around 1800
Wednesday 31 May
Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country), The Vegetal Spectrality of Time: Bringing Derrida Up to Date
Paco Calvo (University of Murcia), Planta Sapiens and the ‘War of Nerves’: A View from the 21 st century
Angela Kallhoff (University of Wien), Plant Ethics: Why the Flourishing of Plants Matters
Marcello Di Paola (University of Palermo), Spinoza’s Plant
Bianca Bonato (University of Padua), The Social Behaviour of Plants in Today’s Comparative Psychology
Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 May 2023, 9:15–18:30 CEST
Source: https://www.academia.edu/100337355/Plants_and_Philosophy_Programme
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