Events 2015 2016 - Filosofia @UniTO

EARLY MODERN AND ENLIGHTENMENT
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE
SEMINAR
University of Turin
Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
Research Group fMOD
Events relating to the Academic Year 2015/2016
The Medical Dimension of Thomas Reid's Philosophy of Mind
Sebastiano Gino (Università di Torino)
November 20, h 10-12, Torino, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Po 18
History ad maiorem Dei gloriam
Giuliano Mori (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
December 18, h 10-12, Torino, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Po 18, Aula Guzzo
Vital anti-mathematicism and the emerging ontology of the life sciences: Mandeville, Buffon
and Diderot
Charles T. Wolfe (University of Ghent)
January 25, h 14-16, Torino, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Po 18
Joint session on March 7, h 16-19, Torino, Via S. Ottavio 54, Aula 3.06
Life as an irreducible: Descartes’s “vitalism”
Barnaby Hutchins (Bar-Ilan University)
Microscopical Eyes: John Locke and Microscopical Pessimism in 17th Century Natural
Philosophy
Christoffer Basse Eriksen (Aarhus Universitet)
Margaret Cavendish on Universal Medicine, Disease, and Natural Philosophy
Benjamin Goldberg (University of South Florida)
March 24, h 14-17, Torino, Palazzo del Rettorato, Aula Principi d'Acaja
Joint session on June 3, h 14-17, Torino, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Po 18, Aula Guzzo
José Celestino Mutis and the Diffusion of Newtonianism in the New Kingdom of Granada
Sebastián Molina (Università di Torino)
The Reception of Newton and the
English Experimental Philosophers in Scottish Universities (1660-1700)
Giovanni Gellera (University of Glasgow)
Reading group on “embodied Descartes”
Open discussion on papers relating to the topic of the embodiment in Descartes’s philosophy
June 27, h 16-19, Torino, Palazzo Nuovo, Ex-sala lauree di Lettere