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Forms of vitalism in 2013

20-06-2013 ⟶ 21-06-2013 13:00
Blandijnberg 2, 2.19
Workshop

Thursday, June 20

  1. 13:00: Charles Wolfe (Ghent): Introduction: why vitalism now?
  2. 13:30: Barnaby Hutchins (Ghent): The fire without light, or why Descartes has no principle of life
  3. 14:30: Marij van Strien (Ghent) : The challenge of physics to free will and vitalism, 1860–1880
  4. 15:30: Olivier Sartenaer (Louvain-La-Neuve): The Tangled Relationship between Vitalism and Emergentism: The Case of Emergent Evolutionism
  5. 16:30 Victor Marques (PUCRS, Brazil): The machine metaphor, dialectics of nature and the spectre of vitalism
  • 19:30: dinner at Multatuli, Huidevetterskaai 40, Ghent

Friday, June 21

  1. 10:00 Andy Wong (Liège): Life as Constraint and as Challenge: Bergson, Canguilhem and the Perplexity of Vitalism
  2. 11:00 Anne Lefebvre (UTC, Compiègne) : Life and Information: Simondon as a reader of Canguilhem and Goldstein
  3. 12:00 Gertrudis Van de Vijver (Ghent): Concluding remarks

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